Jochen Hörisch, born in 1951, was formerly Professor of Modern German Studies and Media Analysis at the University of Mannheim. He is a member of several academies and lives near Mannheim. His most recent novel published by Hanser Verlag was Tauschen, sprechen, begehren. Eine Kritik der unreinen Vernunft (Edition Akzente, 2011).
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From Goethe’s Faust to a “handball” in soccer, this is a cultural history from an unusual new angle
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Mannheim
Museum Zeughaus der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen (rem), Florian-Waldeck-Saal,
C5,
68159 Mannheim
1999 Reimers-Preis der Aby-Warburg Stiftung Hamburg
1988 Heyne-Preis
