Jan Philipp Reemtsma

{{Short description|German literary scholar and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} thumb|Jan Philipp Reemtsma (2023) '''Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma''' (born 26 November 1952) is a German literary scholar, author, and patron who founded and was the long-term director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Reemtsma lives and works mainly in Hamburg.<ref>{{cite web | title=Reemtsma | website=Literatur in Niedersachsen | date=4 July 2013 | url=https://www.literatur-niedersachsen.de/autoren/detailansicht/jan-philipp-reemtsma.html | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> In 1996, Reemtsma was kidnapped by Thomas Drach and only released after a ransom of 30 million German Marks was paid.<ref name="Archives 1996">{{cite web | title=$20-Million Ransom Wins Release of Kidnapped German | website=Los Angeles Times | date=28 April 1996 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-28-mn-63746-story.html | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="AP NEWS 1997">{{cite web | title=Two convicted of kidnapping German millionaire | website=AP NEWS | date=14 February 1997 | url=https://apnews.com/article/f969bb6cc281672a9d1131730c2c6223 | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>

==Biography== Reemtsma was born in Bonn, West Germany,<ref name="NDR.de 2022">{{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma: Ein Hamburger Mäzen | website=NDR.de | date=26 November 2022 | url=https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/koepfe/Jan-Philipp-Reemtsma-Ein-Hamburger-Maezen,reemtsma105.html | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> the son of cigarette manufacturer {{ill|Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma|de}} and Gertrud Reemtsma<ref name="Gö 1970">{{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | url=https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/jan+philipp+reemtsma/508024.html | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> (née Zülch).<ref name="Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation 1916">{{cite web | title=Foundation | website=Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation | date=6 September 1916 | url=https://gertrud-reemtsma-stiftung.sf.mpg.de/foundation/ | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2022">{{cite web | title=Auszeichnungen der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | website=Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | date=26 September 2022 | url=https://www.mpg.de/gertrud-reemtsma-stiftung | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> He grew up in the Blankenese district of Hamburg and attended the Gymnasium Christianeum in Othmarschen.<ref name="Hamburg_2" /> He studied German literature and philosophy at the University of Hamburg (PhD), where he has been active as a professor of German literature since 1996.<ref name="Hamburg_2">{{cite web | title=Reemtsma, Jan Philipp | website=Universität Hamburg | url=https://www.hpk.uni-hamburg.de/resolve/id/cph_person_00003707 | language=de | access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="Hamburg">{{cite web | last=Hamburg | first=Universität | title=Reemtsma, Jan Philipp | website=HPK | url=https://www.hpk.uni-hamburg.de/resolve/gnd/119425432 | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="GmbH">{{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=Munzinger Biographie | url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000018348 | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="Biografie WHOS WHO" /> He was awarded a PhD in philosophy there in 1993.<ref name="Hamburg_2" />

According to his father's will, Reemtsma was allowed to access of his inheritance after reaching the age of 26.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-26 |title=Zum 70. Geburtstag von Jan Philipp Reemtsma |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/zum-70-geburtstag-von-jan-philipp-reemtsma-18488786.html |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=FAZ.NET |language=de}}</ref> He sold his inherited majority stake in the Reemtsma group in 1980 to the Hamburg entrepreneurial family Herz (Tchibo).<ref name="Deutsche Biographie">{{cite web | title=Reemtsma, Philipp | website=Deutsche Biographie | url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz104732.html#ndbcontent_sfz104728 | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>

Musician and music producer Johann Scheerer is his son.<ref name="Weidermann 2018">{{cite web | last=Weidermann | first=Volker | title=Johann Scheerer über die Entführung seines Vaters Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=Der Spiegel | date=24 February 2018 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/johann-scheerer-ueber-die-entfuehrung-seines-vaters-jan-philipp-reemtsma-a-1195155.html | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>

== Kidnapping == On 25 March 1996, Reemtsma was the victim of a kidnapping in which four men were involved. They released him on 26 April after receiving a ransom of 30 million German Marks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996-04-28 |title=German Millionaire Says He Was Treated Well By His Captors Details Revealed After Police Lift News Blackout On Kidnapping |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/apr/28/german-millionaire-says-he-was-treated-well-by/ |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Spokesman.com |language=en}}</ref> The mastermind of the kidnapping was tracked down in South America and extradited to Germany in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=2000-07-29 |title=German Kidnap Suspect Extradited by Argentina |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-29-mn-61182-story.html |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> The accomplices were also found and sentenced to many years in prison.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Press |first=The Associated |date=1997-02-15 |title=2 Germans Convicted In Notorious Kidnapping |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/15/world/2-germans-convicted-in-notorious-kidnapping.html |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Reemtsma has also written a bestselling account of his experiences during a 1996 kidnapping (published in German as ''Im Keller'' in 1997, in English as ''In the Cellar'' in 1999, in French as ''Dans la cave'' in 2000 as well as in many other languages).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Öffentlichkeitsarbeit |first=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- |title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma - Georg-August-University Göttingen |url=https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/508024.html |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Georg-August Universität Göttingen |language=de}}</ref>

==Activities== '''Arno Schmidt'''

In 1977, Reemtsma offered the novelist Arno Schmidt, who suffered from a heart condition, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in the amount of 350,000 German Marks as support to ensure his independence.<ref>{{Cite web |last=deutschlandfunkkultur.de |date=2014-01-17 |title=Nachkriegsliteratur - Große sprachliche Energie |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/nachkriegsliteratur-grosse-sprachliche-energie-100.html |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}}</ref> Two years after Schmidt's death, Reemtsma founded the {{ill|Arno-Schmidt-Stiftung|de}} (Arno Schmidt Foundation) in 1981.<ref name="Reemtsma 2006 p.">{{cite book | last=Reemtsma | first=Jan Philipp | title=Über Arno Schmidt : Vermessungen eines poetischen Terrains | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2006 | isbn=3-518-41762-2 | oclc=65207824 | language=de | page=}}</ref><ref name="Arno Schmidt Stiftung">{{cite web | title=Arno Schmidt Stiftung | website=Arno Schmidt Stiftung | url=https://www.arno-schmidt-stiftung.de/Stiftung/ArnoSchmidtStiftung.html | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="Wendler 2004">{{cite web | last=Wendler | first=Lutz | title=Wo sich Weltliteratur in der Provinz versteckte | website=Hamburger Abendblatt | date=11 September 2004 | url=https://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/journal/article108605855/Wo-sich-Weltliteratur-in-der-Provinz-versteckte.html | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>

Reemtsma and HIS produced two exhibitions about war crimes of the Wehrmacht<ref>{{cite news|title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma trennt sich von Austellungsmacher Hannes Heer|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/vorab/a-88900.html|work=Der Spiegel|date=12 August 2000|accessdate=12 September 2012}}</ref> collectively known as the Wehrmacht exhibition. The first exhibition opened in 1995, and traveled to 33 German and Austrian cities.

'''Wieland Edition'''

Since the 1990s, Reemtsma has served as co-editor of the Oßmannstedter Ausgabe, the first complete critical edition of Christoph Martin Wieland's works, published by De Gruyter and supported by the German Research Foundation.<ref>{{cite web | title=Arbeitsstelle Wieland-Edition | website=Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | url=https://www.glw.uni-jena.de/forschung/arbeitsstelle-wieland-edition | language=de | access-date=4 August 2025}}</ref>

==Hamburg Institute for Social Research== {{Main|Hamburg Institute for Social Research}} In 1984 Reemtsma founded the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS)), which he led from 1984 to 2015.<ref name="Schloemann 2022">{{cite web | last=Schloemann | first=Johan | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma wird 70 | website=Süddeutsche.de | date=25 November 2022 | url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/jan-philipp-reemtsma-70-literatur-1.5703592 | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="hamburg.de_2">{{cite web | title=Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (HIS) | website=hamburg.de | url=https://www.hamburg.de/bwfgb/forschungseinrichtungen/13601676/his/ | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> The institute has around 60 employees, publishes the journal ''Mittelweg 36'' and is financed from the foundation's assets.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nur die Logik setzt die Regeln fest - WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article451904/Nur-die-Logik-setzt-die-Regeln-fest.html |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=DIE WELT |language=de}}</ref>

The three research units of the HIS are:<ref name="Clio-online 2022">{{cite web | title=Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (HIS) | website=Clio-online | date=28 November 2022 | url=http://beta.clio-online.de/organization/id/organization-12303 | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> * Theory and History of Violence * The Society of the Federal Republic of Germany * Nation and Society

Reemtsma also headed the 1995 project ''Violence and Destructiveness in the Twentieth Century'' ({{lang|de|Gewalt und Destruktivität im 20. Jahrhundert}}).<ref name="Scalla 1997">{{cite news | last=Scalla | first=Mario | title=Gegen die Gedenkroutine | newspaper=Die Tageszeitung: Taz | date=18 February 1997 | page=23 | url=https://taz.de/!1413776/ | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>

Two exhibitions were realized: * "200 Days and 1 Century" focused on violence in the twentieth century and was presented in Germany, Austria, and in Caen, France.<ref name="Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung 1995 p. ">{{cite book | author=Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung | title=200 Tage und 1 Jahrhundert : Gewalt und Destruktivität im Spiegel des Jahres 1945 | publisher=Hamburger Edition | publication-place=Hamburg | date=1995 | isbn=3-930908-02-6 | oclc=34461824 | language=de | page=}}</ref> * an exhibition on crimes of the German Wehrmacht, the first of two highly publicized exhibitions which drew more than one million visitors at some forty venues in Germany, Austria, and Luxemburg.<ref name="Heer Ausstellung Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht bis 1944 Stiftung Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung 1997 p. ">{{cite book | last=Heer | first=Hannes | author2=Ausstellung Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht bis 1944 | author3=Stiftung Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung | title=Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944 : Ausstellungskatalog; [Katalog zur Ausstellung "Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944"] | publisher=Hamburger Ed | publication-place=Hamburg | date=1997 | isbn=3-930908-24-7 | oclc=263631520 | language=de | page=}}</ref> In January 2024, it was announced that the institute would be closed in 2028.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-15 |title=Reemtsma - Schließung des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung: Ende eines Bildungsauftrags |url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/schliessung-des-hamburger-instituts-fuer-sozialforschung-ende-eines-bildungsauftrags-92776766.html |access-date=2025-10-30 |website=www.fr.de |language=de}}</ref>

== Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture == In 1984, Reemtsma founded the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture<ref name="NDR.de 2022" /> and, as its chairman, supported numerous editions and archives, including those of Theodor W. Adorno,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Das Adorno Archiv |url=https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/adorno-archiv.html |access-date=2025-10-30}}</ref> Jean Améry<ref>{{Cite web |title=Werke. Bd. 1-9. Die Ausgabe wird unterstützt von der Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur (Werke, Bd. 1-9) |url=https://albatros-buch.de/shop/item/9783608939453/werke-bd-1-9-die-ausgabe-wird-unterstutzt-von-der-hamburger-stiftung-zur-forderung-von-wissenschaft-und-kultur-werke-bd-1-9-von-jean-amery-gebundenes-buch |access-date=2025-10-30}}</ref> and Walter Benjamin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Walter Benjamin Archiv |url=https://www.adk.de/de/archiv/archivabteilungen/walter-benjamin-archiv/index.htm |access-date=2025-10-30 |website=www.adk.de |language=de}}</ref>

== Christoph Martin Wieland == As co-editor of numerous editions of Christoph Martin Wieland's works, Reemtsma played a major role in the restoration of Wieland's long-neglected Oßmannstedt estate near Weimar, which was reopened on 25 June 2005 as a museum and research centre.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Oßmannstedt: Wielandgut mit Hilfe von Jan Philipp Reemtsma saniert |url=https://www.mz.de/kultur/ossmannstedt-wielandgut-mit-hilfe-von-jan-philipp-reemtsma-saniert-2827054 |access-date=2025-10-30 |website=www.mz.de |language=de}}</ref> In March 2023, Reemtsma published his comprehensive biography of Wieland.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-10 |title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma – Christoph Martin Wieland. Die Erfindung der modernen deutschen Literatur. Eine Biographie |url=https://www.swr.de/kultur/literatur/christoph-martin-wieland-die-erfindung-der-modernen-deutschen-literatur-eine-biographie-100.html |access-date=2025-10-30 |website=SWR |language=de}}</ref> For this, he received a nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category of non-fiction.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-18 |title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma – Christoph Martin Wieland. Die Erfindung der modernen deutschen Literatur |url=https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/jan-philipp-reemtsma-christoph-martin-wieland-die-erfindung-der-modernen-deutschen-literatur/ |access-date=2025-10-30 |website=Literaturhaus Zürich |language=de-CH}}</ref>

== Further patronage == In 1986, he helped to finance the Hamburg Foundation for Politically Persecuted People,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Senat ehrt Jan Philipp Reemtsma mit der Ehrendenkmünze in Gold |url=https://www.hamburg.de/politik-und-verwaltung/behoerden/senatskanzlei/aktuelles/pressemeldungen/ehrendenkmuenze-reemtsma-521794 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250208042101/https://www.hamburg.de/politik-und-verwaltung/behoerden/senatskanzlei/aktuelles/pressemeldungen/ehrendenkmuenze-reemtsma-521794 |archive-date=2025-02-08 |access-date=2025-11-04 |website=www.hamburg.de |language=de}}</ref> which was founded on the initiative of the former mayor of Hamburg, Klaus von Dohnanyi.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Schutzburg für die Mutigen - WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/hamburg/article13601201/Schutzburg-fuer-die-Mutigen.html |access-date=2025-11-04 |website=DIE WELT |language=de}}</ref> Reemtsma is a member of the international non-profit foundation Luwian Studies, which aims to research knowledge about the second millennium BC in western Asia Minor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-11-25 |title=Luwier, Troja, Mykener: der Weltkrieg der Bronzezeit |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/geschichte-die-unbekannte-weltmacht-1.3264411 |access-date=2025-11-04 |website=Süddeutsche.de |language=de}}</ref>

== Professorships == Reemtsma has been an honorary professor of modern German literature at the University of Hamburg since 1996.<ref name="NDR.de 2022" /> In 1999, he held the Mercator professorship at the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg (now the University of Duisburg-Essen).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma: Mercatorprofessur 1999/2000 |url=https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/1999/10/27/jan-philipp-reemtsma-mercatorprofessur-1999-2000 |access-date=2025-11-04}}</ref> In 2008, he was a visiting professor at the University of Mainz and in 2009 at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Schiller Professorship 2009).<ref name=":0" />

== Private life == Reemtsma is married to the psychoanalyst Ann Kathrin Scheerer. Their son, the musician and music producer Johann Scheerer,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Die Entführung von Jan Philipp Reemtsma vor 25 Jahren |url=https://story.ndr.de/die-entf-hrung-von--jan-philipp-reemtsma-/ |access-date=2025-11-06 |website=story.ndr.de |language=en}}</ref> published ''We Are Next of Kin,'' a book about his father's kidnapping in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weidermann |first=Volker |date=2018-02-24 |title=Johann Scheerer über die Entführung seines Vaters Jan Philipp Reemtsma |url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/johann-scheerer-ueber-die-entfuehrung-seines-vaters-jan-philipp-reemtsma-a-1195155.html |access-date=2025-11-06 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref> The book was adapted by Hans-Christian Schmid and released in cinemas in November 2022. Reemtsma is played by Philipp Hauß.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grierson |first=Tim |last2= |first2= |title=‘We Are Next Of Kin’: Hamburg Review |url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/we-are-next-of-kin-hamburg-review/5174813.article |access-date=2025-11-06 |website=Screen |language=en}}</ref>

== Archive == In November 2017, Jan Philipp Reemtsma handed over his literary and scientific archive to the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. In addition to correspondence with contemporary writers and scholars, such as Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Marcel Reich-Ranicki, it also contains preparatory work for publications and documents on scientific, artistic and social projects, publishers and magazines that he has supported.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Presse Details - DLA Marbach |url=https://www.dla-marbach.de/presse/presse-details/news/pm-70-2017/ |access-date=2025-11-06 |website=www.dla-marbach.de}}</ref>

== Other activities == In 2001, Reemtsma gave the laudatory speech for Jürgen Habermas on the occasion of his being awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jürgen Habermas - Peace Prize of the German Book Trade |url=https://www.friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de/en/the-prizewinners/2000-2009/juergen-habermas |access-date=2025-11-04 |website=www.friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de |language=en-US}}</ref> and he gave the laudatory speech for Alexander Kluge on 25 October 2003 at the Darmstadt ceremony for the Georg Büchner Prize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laudatory Address by Jan Philipp Reemtsma |url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/en/awards/georg-buechner-preis/alexander-kluge/laudatio |access-date=2025-11-04 |website=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung |language=en}}</ref> From 2003 to 2006, he was a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma |url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/jan-philipp-reemtsma |access-date=2025-11-04 |website=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung |language=de}}</ref> and from 2013 to 2016 a member of the German Science and Humanities Council.<ref name="NDR.de 2022" /> He is a member of the PEN Centre Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PEN-ZENTRUM DEUTSCHLAND |url=https://pen-deutschland.de/personen/ |access-date=2025-11-04 |website=PEN-ZENTRUM |language=de}}</ref>

From 2012 to the end of 2015, he served as the honorary consul of the Republic of Slovenia for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.<ref name="NDR.de 2022" />

==Memberships== * Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung<ref name="Akademie">{{cite web | title=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung - Mitglieder - Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=Akademie | url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/de/akademie/mitglieder/jan-philipp-reemtsma | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> * Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg<ref name="Biografie WHOS WHO">{{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=Biografie WHO'S WHO | url=https://whoswho.de/bio/jan-philipp-reemtsma.html | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>

==Awards== {{div col}}  * Copernicus Medal of the University of Kraków (1987)<ref name="Verlag">{{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=Hamburger Edition | url=https://www.hamburger-edition.de/autorinnen-autoren/detailseite/person/jan-philipp-reemtsma/ | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> * Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (1997)<ref name="Verlag" /> * Honorary doctorate of the University of Konstanz (1999)<ref name="Biografie WHOS WHO" /> * Mercator-Professorship University of Duisburg-Essen (1999)<ref name="Biografie WHOS WHO" /> * Nicolas Born Prize (2001)<ref name="Verlag" /> * Leibniz Medal of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2002)<ref name="Verlag" /> * Heinz Galinski Prize for fostering German-Jewish understanding (2003)<ref name="Verlag" /> * Julius-Campe-Prize (2005)<ref>{{cite web | title=Frankfurter Buchmesse to receive 2022 Julius Campe Prize | url=https://www.buchmesse.de/en/press/press-releases/2022-08-31-frankfurter-buchmesse-receive-2022-julius-campe-prize | access-date=2025-11-06}}</ref> * Honorary doctorate of the University of Magdeburg (2007)<ref name="Mitteldeutsche Zeitung 2007" /> * Teddy Kollek Award of the Jerusalem Foundation (ceremony in Israel's Knesset in October 2007)<ref name="Verlag" /> *{{ill|Johannes Gutenberg-Stiftungsprofessur|de}} (2008)<ref name="Mitteldeutsche Zeitung 2007">{{cite web | title=Universität Magdeburg: Jan Philipp Reemtsma wird Ehrendoktor | website=Mitteldeutsche Zeitung | date=16 November 2007 | url=https://www.mz.de/mitteldeutschland/universitat-magdeburg-jan-philipp-reemtsma-wird-ehrendoktor-2830162 | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> * Ferdinand Tönnies Medal of the University of Kiel (2008) * Schiller-Professorship of the University of Jena (2008) * Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Influence of Sociology on Public Life of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (German Sociological Association; 2009)<ref name="Verlag" /> * Jewish Museum Award for Understanding and Tolerance (Berlin; 2010)<ref name="Jewish Museum Berlin 2010">{{cite web | title=The Jewish Museum Berlin Presents Jan Philipp Reemtsma and Hubertus Erlen with the "Prize for Understanding and Tolerance" | website=Jewish Museum Berlin | date=13 November 2010 | url=https://www.jmberlin.de/en/jewish-museum-berlin-presents-jan-philipp-reemtsma-and-hubertus-erlen-prize-understanding-and | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> * Schiller Prize of the City of Mannheim (2011)<ref name="Mannheim.de">{{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma erhält Schillerpreis der Stadt Mannheim | website=Mannheim.de | url=https://www.mannheim.de/de/nachrichten/jan-philipp-reemtsma-erhaelt-schillerpreis-der-stadt-mannheim | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> * Schader Award (Darmstadt; 2011)<ref name="Schader Stiftung">{{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma erhält den Schader-Preis 2011 | website=Schader Stiftung | url=https://www.schader-stiftung.de/schader-preis/artikel/jan-philipp-reemtsma-erhaelt-den-schader-preis-2011 | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref> *{{ill|Moses Mendelssohn Prize|de|Moses-Mendelssohn-Preis}} (2022)<ref name="Verlag" /> * {{ill|Weimar Prize|de|Weimar-Preis}} (2022)<ref name="Verlag" /> * Bayerischer Buchpreis (2023)<ref>{{cite web | title=Zehnter Bayerischer Buchpreis geht an Deniz Utlu und Jan Philipp Reemtsma | url=https://www.oebib.de/beitraege/zehnter-bayerischer-buchpreis-geht-an-deniz-utlu-und-jan-philipp-reemtsma| access-date=2025-09-10}}</ref> * Wuppertaler Poetikdozentur für faktuales Erzählen (2024)<ref>{{cite web | title="Poetikdozentur für faktuales Erzählen" - Erste Vorlesung von Jan Philipp Reemtsma | url=https://www.zef.uni-wuppertal.de/de/aktuelles/ansicht/poetikdozentur-fuer-faktuales-erzaehlen-erste-vorlesung-von-jan-philipp-reemtsma/| access-date=2025-09-10}}</ref>{{div col end}}In keeping with Hanseatic tradition, Reemtsma declined to accept the Federal Cross of Merit that had been offered to him.<ref name="NDR.de 2022" />

==Selected publications== ===In German=== * with Mauro Basaure, Rasmus Willig (eds.): Erneuerung der Kritik. Axel Honneth im Gespräch [Renewing Critique: A Conversation with Axel Honneth], Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 2009 * Vertrauen und Gewalt. Versuch über eine besondere Konstellation der Moderne [Trust and Violence: An Attempt to Understand a Unique Constellation in Modernity], Hamburg 2008 * Lessing in Hamburg [Lessing in Hamburg], München 2007 * Über Arno Schmidt: Vermessungen eines poetischen Terrains [About Arno Schmidt: Surveying a Poetic Terrain], Frankfurt/M 2006 * Das unaufhebbare Nichtbescheidwissen der Mehrheit: Sechs Reden über Literatur und Kunst [The Majority's Unalterable Lack of Understanding: Six Lectures on Literature and Art] München 2005 * Folter im Rechtsstaat? [Torture in Constitutional States?], Hamburg 2005 * Rudi Dutschke Andreas Baader und die RAF [Rudi Dutschke Andreas Baader and the RAF], Hamburg 2005 (with Wolfgang Kraushaar and Karin Wieland) * Warum Hagen Jung-Ortlieb erschlug. Unzeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod [Why Hagen Slew Jung-Ortlieb: Untimely Thoughts on War and Death], München 2003 * Verbrechensopfer. Gesetz und Gerechtigkeit [Victims of Crime: Law and Justice], München 2002 (with Winfried Hassemer) * Die Gewalt spricht nicht. Drei Reden [Violence Does Not Speak: Three Lectures], Stuttgart 2002 * Wie hätte ich mich verhalten? und andere nicht nur deutsche Fragen [How Would I Have Acted? And Other, Not Only German Questions], München 2001 * Der Liebe Maskentanz. Aufsätze zum Werk Christoph Martin Wielands [Love's Masquerade Dance: Essays on the Works of Christoph Martin Wieland], Zürich 1999 * Das Recht des Opfers auf die Bestrafung des Täters – als Problem [The Victim's Right to Punishment of the Perpetrator – as a Problem], München 1999 * Mord am Strand. Allianzen von Zivilisation und Barbarei. Aufsätze und Reden [Murder on the Beach: Alliances of Civilization and Barbarianism: Essays and Lectures], Hamburg 1998 * Der Vorgang des Ertaubens nach dem Urknall. 10 Reden und Aufsätze [The Process of Turning Deaf after the Big Bang: Ten Lectures and Essays], Zürich 1995 * Das Buch vom Ich. Christoph Martin Wielands "Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen". [The Book of Ego: Christoph Martin Wieland's "Aristipp and Some of His Contemporaries"], Zürich 1993<ref>{{cite book | last=Reemtsma | first=Jan Philipp | title=Das Buch vom Ich : Christoph Martin Wielands Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen | publisher=Haffman | publication-place=Zürich | date=1993 | isbn=3-251-20131-X | oclc=29663417 |type=dissertation | language=de}}</ref>

===In English=== * {{cite book | last=Reemtsma | first=Jan Philipp | title=Trust and violence : an essay on a modern relationship | publisher=Princeton University Press | publication-place=Princeton | date=2012 | isbn=978-1-4008-4234-6 | oclc=779828643}} * {{cite book | last=Ali | first=Muhammad |author-link=Muhammad Ali | author2=Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft für Internationalen Dialog | title=The end of tolerance? | publisher=Nicholas Brealey | publication-place=London | date=2002 | isbn=1-85788-317-9 | oclc=59483099}} * "The Concept of the War of Annihilation: Clausewitz, Ludendorff, Hitler", In: {{cite book | last1=Heer | first1=Hannes |author-link=Hannes Heer | last2=Naumann | first2=Klaus |author-link2=Klaus Naumann (historian) | title=War of extermination : the German military in World War II, 1941-1944 | publisher=Berghahn Books | publication-place=New York | date=2000 | isbn=1-57181-232-6 | oclc=42290853}} * {{cite book | last=Reemtsma | first=Jan Philipp | title=In the cellar. | publisher=Vintage | publication-place=London | date=2000 | isbn=0-09-927346-2 | oclc=42952386}}<ref name="Washington Post 1999">{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Maass | title=Sympathy for the Devil | newspaper=Washington Post | date=21 February 1999 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1999/02/21/sympathy-for-the-devil/5c4bf61d-d681-442e-8e2b-7be2208791b1/ | access-date=28 November 2022}}</ref>  * {{cite book | last=Reemtsma | first=Jan Philipp | title=More than a champion : the style of Muhammad Ali | publication-place=New York | date=1998 | isbn=978-0-307-48100-9 | oclc=773835045}}  * "R.J.B. Bosworth: Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima. History Writing and the Second World War, 1945–1990", Book Review, in: ''Journal of Modern History'', 69/1, March 1997 * "Wolfgang Sofsky: Die Ordnung des Terrors. Das Konzentrationslager", Book Review, in: ''International Review of Social History'', Vol. 40, Part 1, April 1995-->

=== In French === * {{cite book | last1=Reemtsma | first1=Jan Philipp | last2=Marcou | first2=Léa | title=Dans la cave | publisher=Pauvert | publication-place=Paris | date=2000 | isbn=2-7202-1393-4 | oclc=406667126 | language=fr}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==Further reading== * {{cite web | title=Pressemitteilung: Bundespräsident Steinmeier gratuliert Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=Der Bundespräsident | date=22 November 2022 | url=https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2022/11/221125-Glueckwunsch-Jan-Philipp-Reemtsma.html | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Der Bundespräsident | 2022}} | access-date=28 November 2022}} * {{cite news | last= Platthaus | first=Andreas | title=Reemtsma wird siebzig: Fleiß als Lebensnotwendigkeit | website=FAZ.NET | date=1 January 1970 | url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/autoren/zum-70-geburtstag-von-jan-philipp-reemtsma-18488786.html | language=de | access-date=28 November 2022}} * {{cite book | last=Scheerer | first=Johann |author-link=Johann Scheerer | publisher=Piper Verlag | title=Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen Roman | publication-place=München | date=2018 | isbn=978-3-492-05909-1 | oclc=1009083169 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Scheerer | first=Johann | publisher=Piper Verlag | title=Unheimlich nah Roman | publication-place=München | date=2021 | isbn=978-3-492-05915-2 | oclc=1231968247 | language=de}} * {{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma: Ein Hamburger Mäzen | website=NDR.de | date=26 November 2022 | url=https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/koepfe/Jan-Philipp-Reemtsma-Ein-Hamburger-Maezen,reemtsma105.html | language=de | ref={{sfnref | NDR.de | 2022}} | access-date=28 November 2022}}

==External links== * {{cite web | title=Presse Details | website=DLA Marbach | date=30 November 2017 | url=https://www.dla-marbach.de/presse/presse-details/news/pm-70-2017/ | language=de | ref={{sfnref | DLA Marbach | 2017}} | access-date=28 November 2022}} * {{cite web | title=Reemtsma | website=DLA Marbach | url=https://www.dla-marbach.de/find/opac/id/PE00006557/?tx_find_find%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_find_find%5Bcontroller%5D=Search&cHash=a8f69e199f7b2bd5a8159c4b024dbb8f | language=de | ref={{sfnref | DLA Marbach}} | access-date=28 November 2022}} * {{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=filmportal.de | date=26 November 1952 | url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/jan-philipp-reemtsma_dc79b84b194d4bd78a524106f751f21a | language=de | ref={{sfnref | filmportal.de | 1952}} | access-date=28 November 2022}} * {{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=The Center for the Humanities | date=5 November 2012 | url=https://centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/jan-philipp-reemtsma | ref={{sfnref | The Center for the Humanities | 2012}} | access-date=28 November 2022}} * {{cite web | title=Jan Philipp Reemtsma | website=Salzburger Festspiele | url=https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/a/jan-philipp-reemtsma | ref={{sfnref | Salzburger Festspiele}} | access-date=28 November 2022}}

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