Wolfram Eilenberger, born 1972, is an internationally bestselling, award-winning writer and philosopher.
His passion is narrative non-fiction and the application of philosophical ideas to our life today, whether it be in politics, culture or sport. He is the founding editor of „Philosophie Magazin“ and in high demand as a German intellectual, also often appearing on talkshows.
He has published nine books. In March 2018 he published "Zeit der Zauberer - Das große Jahrzehnt der Philosophie 1919-1929". The book instantly became a bestseller in Germany and is currently being translated into more than 20 languages.
In the US it will be published by Penguin in August 2020, in the UK by Allen Lane. It received high critical acclaim both in Germany and abroad, for example in Der Spiegel (Germany), the New York Times (USA), the Times (UK), El País (Spain) or La Repubblica (Italy).
In November 2018 it won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was also shortlisted for several other awards, both nationally and internationally.
His new book “Feuer der Freiheit” will be published in Germany in September 2020 and describes the legendary lives of the four most influential female philosophers of the 20th century during World War II - Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand.
Eilenberger has taught at the University of Toronto (Canada), Indiana University (Bloomington, USA) and University of Arts, Berlin. From September 2019 on also at the ETH Zürich.
He is one of the program directors of the phil.cologne, Germany's biggest philosophy festival, and moderator of the TV program Sternstunde Philosophie (Swiss Television). He also holds a DFB football trainer’s licence and is the author of the monthly football column “Eilenbergers Kabinenpredigt“ for the German Newspaper ZEIT ONLINE.
His passion is narrative non-fiction and the application of philosophical ideas to our life today, whether it be in politics, culture or sport. He is the founding editor of „Philosophie Magazin“ and in high demand as a German intellectual, also often appearing on talkshows.
He has published nine books. In March 2018 he published "Zeit der Zauberer - Das große Jahrzehnt der Philosophie 1919-1929". The book instantly became a bestseller in Germany and is currently being translated into more than 20 languages.
In the US it will be published by Penguin in August 2020, in the UK by Allen Lane. It received high critical acclaim both in Germany and abroad, for example in Der Spiegel (Germany), the New York Times (USA), the Times (UK), El País (Spain) or La Repubblica (Italy).
In November 2018 it won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. It was also shortlisted for several other awards, both nationally and internationally.
His new book “Feuer der Freiheit” will be published in Germany in September 2020 and describes the legendary lives of the four most influential female philosophers of the 20th century during World War II - Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand.
Eilenberger has taught at the University of Toronto (Canada), Indiana University (Bloomington, USA) and University of Arts, Berlin. From September 2019 on also at the ETH Zürich.
He is one of the program directors of the phil.cologne, Germany's biggest philosophy festival, and moderator of the TV program Sternstunde Philosophie (Swiss Television). He also holds a DFB football trainer’s licence and is the author of the monthly football column “Eilenbergers Kabinenpredigt“ for the German Newspaper ZEIT ONLINE.
![Stonborugh House by Ludwig Wittgenstein with the collaboration of Paul Engelmann. Photograph by José Juan Barba [10.10.2019]](/sites/default/files/styles/card_article_image_big/public/lead-images/metalocus_rogelio-ruiz-fernandez_casa-wittgenstein_18_p.webp?itok=bbq5oLp2 "Stonborugh House by Ludwig Wittgenstein with the collaboration of Paul Engelmann. Photograph by José Juan Barba [10.10.2019]")
