Lorenz Jäger (born 6 June 1951 in

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) is a German sociologist and

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Biography

Lorenz Jäger studied

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and German literature at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. In Marburg Jäger was influenced by the four following scholars: sociologist Heinz Maus, Germanist Heinz Schlaffer, art historian Martin Warnke and the literature scientist Gert Mattenklott.See Lorenz Jäger: ''Geheimes Marburg. Zum Tode des Literaturwissenschaftlers Gert Mattenklott''. In: ''FAZ'', October 6, 2009, p.27. Jäger did his sociology diploma at the Horkheimer-student Maus. After his

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in German literature he taught at the

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. From 1985 until 1988 he taught at the

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( Japan). Since 1 January 1997 he is editor in the

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department of the German broadsheet ''

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''. Since 2009 he writes a column about religious topics in the '' Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'', which was published as a book in 2010. Lorenz Jäger is married with two children.

Monographs

* ''Messianische Kritik. Studien zu Leben und Werk von Florens Christian Rang'', Böhlau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, . * ''Adorno. Eine politische Biographie'', DVA, München 2003, . * ''Das Hakenkreuz. Zeichen im Weltbürgerkrieg. Eine Kulturgeschichte'', Karolinger Verlag, Wien 2006, . * ''Die schöne Kunst, das Schicksal zu lesen. Kleines Brevier der Astrologie'', zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2009, . * ''Hinter dem großen Orient'', Karolinger Verlag, Wien 2009, . * ''Hauptsachen. Gedanken und Einsichten über den Glauben und die Kirche'', Mit einem Vorwort von

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; Fe-Medienverlag, Kißlegg 2010 . * ''Signaturen des Schicksals'', Verlag Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2012, . * ''Prägungen''. Karolinger Verlag, Wien/Leipzig 2013,

Literature

* Philipp von Wussow: ''„Eine Karikatur der Theorie“. Zur neueren Adorno-Biographik''. In: ''Naharaim. Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte'' 1/2007, pp. 131–147.

References

External links

*
Short biography on the website of the FAZ

in the FAZ, October 5, 2011, published online October 13, 2011, visited September 21, 2013 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jager, Lorenz 1951 births German journalists German male journalists German newspaper journalists 20th-century German journalists 21st-century German journalists German non-fiction writers Living people German male writers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung people