Günther Anders

Details

Instance of

human

Born

12 July 1902

Died

17 December 1992

Place of birth

Wrocław

Place of death

Vienna

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Günther

Family name

Anders

Father

William Stern

Mother

Clara Stern

Spouse

Hannah Arendt, Elisabeth Freundlich, Charlotte Lois Zelka

Field of work

philosophy of technology, philosophy

Occupation

philosopher, translator, screenwriter, historian of Modern Age, film critic, art critic, university teacher, journalist, writer, poet, English–German translator, draftsperson

Citizenship

Germany, Austria, United States

Awards

Theodor W. Adorno Award, Andreas Gryphius Prize, Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts, Sigmund Freud Prize, Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik, State Prize for Cultural Journalism

archives at

Austrian National Library, Austrian National Library, Austrian National Library, State University of New York at Albany

different from

Günther Anders

doctoral advisor

Edmund Husserl

educated at

University of Freiburg

employer

The New School, United States Office of War Information, Berliner Börsen-Courier, Metropolitan Museum of Art

has written for

FORVM, Merkur, Aufbau, Les Temps modernes

languages spoken, written or signed

French, English, German

member of

German Academy for Language and Literature, Academy of Arts, Berlin

name in native language

Günther Anders

pseudonym

Günther Christian, Reinhold Hoffmann

student of

Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Ernst Cassirer

writing language

German

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