Eike Christian Hirsch

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Eike Christian Hirsch
Hirsch in 2015
Born(1937-04-06)6 April 1937
Bilthoven, Netherlands
Died7 August 2022(2022-08-07) (aged 85)
Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Education
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Author
  • Television presenter
OrganizationsNorddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
Awards

Eike Christian Hirsch (6 April 1937 – 7 August 2022) was a German journalist, author and television presenter. He was host of a talk show and author of a biography about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The main themes in his books were religion, humour and German language.

Biography

Hirsch was born in Bilthoven, Netherlands, on 6 April 1937[1] and grew up in Göttingen.[2][3] His playmates were the children of the family of Werner Heisenberg among others, and a classmate was a son of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.[4]

Hirsch studied theology and philosophy in Göttingen, Heidelberg, and finally in Basel with Karl Barth.[4] He graduated to Dr. theol. with a work on Immanuel Kant,[5] Höchstes Gut und Reich Gottes in Kants kritischen Hauptwerken als Beispiel für die Säkularisierung seiner Metaphysik (Highest good and Kingdom of God in Kant's main works as an example of the secularisation of his metaphysics).[6] Up to 1996, he was an editor in sound broadcasting at the NDR and headed the "Religion and Society" department.[5] He was later a freelance journalist. In the 1980s, he was the host of the talk show 3 nach 9.[5][7] He wrote books on questions of faith and the German language. He also wrote a series of humorous word definitions, Deutsch für Besserwisser (German for know-it-alls), which were first published in Stern magazine, and later collected into book form.[5]

In 2000, Hirsch wrote his opus magnum Der berühmte Herr Leibniz (The famous Mr. Leibniz) about the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,[8] who had worked in Hanover. A reviewer from the FAZ noted that Hirsch avoided speculation, but provided facts in rich detail in chronological narration.[9]

Hirsch lived in Hanover.[5] Hirsch was married to Doreen.[4] Even in old age, he and his wife went to a fitness centre twice a week, and he relaxed with classical music such as Schubert's.[4]

Hirsch died in Hannover on 7 August 2022 of a severe illness,[4] at the age of 85.[8][10]

Awards

In 1986, Hirsch was awarded the Kassel Literary Prize,[11] for grotesque humour for his amusing interpretation (Der Witzableiter oder die Schule des Lachens, 1985). In 1992, he received the Lower Saxony State Prize (Niedersachsenpreis) for Journalism.[12] In 2006, he received the Kurt Morawietz Literature Prize [de] donated by the Sparkasse Hannover.[13]

Works

References

  1. ^ "Eike Christian Hirsch: Deutsch kommt gut (C. H. Beck) / Rezension". Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Society (in German). August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  2. ^ Grimm, Rudolf (22 December 2008). "Eike Christian Hirsch: Deutsch kommt gut (C. H. Beck) / Rezension". Die Berliner Literaturkritik (in German). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  3. ^ "Eike Christian Hirsch". Literatur in Niedersachsen (in German). 4 July 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d e Helling, Peter (8 August 2022). "Publizist Eike Christian Hirsch gestorben". NDR.de (in German). Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Eike Christian Hirsch (1986)". Stiftung Brückner-Kühner (in German). 1 January 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  6. OCLC 74082486
  7. ^ "3 nach 9: Cast & Crew". fernsehserien.de (in German). 26 April 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Hannover: Publizist Eike Christian Hirsch mit 85 Jahren verstorben". Neue Presse (in German). Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  9. ^ Konersmann, Ralf (14 March 2000). "Heute hier, morgen dort". FAZ (in German). Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  10. ^ Benne, Simon (7 August 2022). "Hannover: Publizist Eike Christian Hirsch mit 85 Jahren verstorben". Hannoversche Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  11. ^ "Eike Christian Hirsch (1986)" (in German). Stiftung Brückner-Kühner. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  12. ^ "Niedersächsischer Staatspreis" (in German). Lower Saxony. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  13. ^ "Dr. Eike Christian Hirsch". lavesstiftung.de (in German). Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  14. ^ "Eike Christian Hirsch: Der berühmte Herr Leibniz". www.berlingeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  15. ^ "Leibniz Eike Christian Hirsch". Lions Club Hannover (in German). 26 March 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2022.

Further reading

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eike Christian Hirsch.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eike_Christian_Hirsch&oldid=1210819658"