Thomas Karlauf

Stauffenberg

Portrait of an Assassin

Who was Claus von Stauffenberg? The figure of the army officer who, at midday of July 20, 1944, set off the bomb that was meant to kill Hitler, has always been a hazy one in...

Date of publication
March 2019

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Eberhard Rathgeb

Two Halves of Life

Hegel & Hölderlin –

A Friendship

Both born in 1770, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Hölderlin met as aspiring theologians in the legendary Tübinger Stift and became friends. Years later they both...

Date of publication
April 2019

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