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December 8, 2022
The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 - Essential Reading: "Magnificent Rebels"
This is amazing. Every year The New Yorker picks 12 non-fiction books as their "Essential Reading" of the year. This year "Magnificent Rebels" is on the list.
���A buoyant work of intellectual history"
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A few German interviews and reviews - "Fabelhafte Rebellen"
ORF - Salzburger Nachtstudio, 7 December 2022 (radio)
SRF - Kulturplatz. 7 December 2022 (TV)
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SWR2 Buchkritik, 8 December 2022
November 30, 2022
The Marginalian: "Magnificent Rebels"
Such a wonderful & thoughtful write up of "Magnificent Rebels" in The Marginalian ... I could have not summarised it better.
November 26, 2022
The Times - Book of the Year 2022 "Magnificent Rebels"
The Times - Book of the Year 2022 in the category 'Ideas'.
"This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to be this fun. Andrea Wulf (famous for her biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature) takes us to the small university town of Jena at the end of the 18th century. For a few magical years every genius in Germany seems to have washed up here: the polymath Goethe, the playwright Schiller, the poet Novalis and more philosophers than you can shake a stick at: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel. The list goes on. They threw parties, squabbled, had affairs... and while they were at it reinvented western thought. As you do."
Bestseller and Bestenliste in Germany: "Fabelhafte Rebellen"
This week has been quite a week for the German edition of "Magnificent Rebels":
Number 3 in Spiegel Bestseller Liste ( View this photo), Number 7 in Die Zeit "Bestenliste" (this is the 'Best Book List" and Number 2 "Sachb��cher des Monats" (best non-fiction books of the month) in Die Welt/WDR 5/Neue Z��rcher Zeitung/ORF-Radio ��sterreich 1.
November 24, 2022
Financial Times: Best Books of 2022 "Magnificent Rebels"
And in the Financial Times ... "Andrea Wulf���s wonderful book brings to life the 'Jena Set' and a golden age of German culture"
November 23, 2022
Best Books of 2022 "Magnificent Rebels"
New York Times, 100 Notable Books of 2022: "Exuberant narrative"
Financial Times, Best Books of 2022
Telegraph, Best Biographies of 2022: "In Wulf���s page-turner, the Germans are as badly behaved as the later Bloomsberries, and surprisingly likeable"
Washington Post, Best Books of 2022 ��� 50 Notable Works of Non���Fiction
Times Literary Supplement, Best Books of 2022: picked twice: ���I was knocked out by Andrea Wulf���s "Magnificent Rebels��� & "The brilliance of Wulf���s approach lies in her depiction of cock-of-the- walk egotism"
New Statesman, Best Books of 2022: picked thrice ... ���Andrea Wulf���s Magnificent Rebels ��� was a pure joy to read��� & ���This is a clever, enlightening and thoroughly entertaining book��� & "An utterly absorbing account ranging from high philosophical theory to mischievously profane stories of ideas, love and ambition in Napoleonic Europe"
The Times, Best Books of 2022: ���This witty, gossipy, sparkling history shows how the German city of Jena in the 1790s fizzed with creative energy. It was there that the first Romantics, led by the mighty Goethe, rebelled against the dreary rationalism of the Enlightenment���
The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022: "A buoyant work of intellectual history"
The Spectator, Best Books of the Year 2022 (Peter Frankopan): "I also greatly admired Andrea Wulf���s Magnificent Rebels, about the intellectual powerhouse of Jena that exploded like a firework in the late 1790s. History writing at its best"
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2022: "Magnificent Rebels"
Wow ... "Magnificent Rebels" was chosen as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2022" by the New York Times.
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November 22, 2022
November 20, 2022
The Oldie: "Magnificent Rebels"
Here is a nice summary in the Oldie of some of the reviews over the past few weeks from newspapers in the UK and US.
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