(Germany, 1951)
Teacher. He studied German, Philosophy and History in Düsseldorf, Paris and Heidelberg between 1970–1976. In 1976 after completing his PhD, he became a visiting professor at the University of Düsseldorf. Since 1988 he has been professor of German Studies and Media Analysis at the University of Mannheim. He has been visiting professor at numerous universities such as the University of Klagenfurt (1986), the Collège international de philosophie and École normale supérieure in Paris (1993), University of Virginia (1996), Princeton (1999), University of Indiana (2002) in USA, Buenos Aires (2003), Marmara University in Istanbul (2007), or the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland (2012). In addition to having participated in various television and radio programs as a cultural and social analyst, he has published books on the music of Richard Wagner (Weibes Wonne und Wert – Richard Wagners Theorie-Theater, with music analysis commentary from Klaus Arp, Die Andere Bibliothek, Berlin, 2015) and about the conflict between “serious” and “popular” music (Pop und Papageno – Über das Spannungsverhältnis von E- und U-Musik, Fink, Munich, 2016).
