Günther Anders Links Page

Biographies about Anders' life (back to top)

• German wikipedia's detailed Anders page (in German)
• French wikipedia's detailed Anders page (in French, mainly by Thierry Simonelli)
• Brief biography in Italian (at peacelink.it [2012 version from internet archive])
• Brief biography in Spanish (at infoamerica.org)
• June 2002 Neue Zuercher Zeitung article "Denken nach Auschwitz und Hiroshima" by Manfred Papst, with bibliography and biography. Excellent assessment of his life and work (in German). (archived on this site)
• July 2002 Bavarian Radio broadcast by Iris Buchheim and Reinhard Wittmann (with audio files of some fables). Not very deep or flattering. (archive copy)

Bibliographies listing Anders' publications (back to top)

• Comprehensive bibliography of Anders' works up to 1995, by Heinz Scheffelmeier, Berlin
  • copy formatted for web, archived on this site

Web sites and on-line texts about Anders (back to top)

• Anders' semi-official website www.guenther-anders.net
  • lots of links but hard to navigate
• The Guenther Anders Forum (by Raimund Bahr), has a blog site at http://www.guentheranders.com (prior to Jan. 2010 at guentheranders.at).
• Les Amis de Némésis has published, in French, three texts by Anders, and one about him:
  • Pathologie de la liberté, Essai sur la non-identification (1937, by Günther Stern)
  • Une interprétation de l'a posteriori (1934, by Günther Stern)
  • Théorie des besoins, suivies d’une discussion entre Adorno, Anders, Brecht, Eisler, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Reichenbach (August 1942)
  • Jean-Pierre Baudet: Günther Anders, De l'anthropologie négative à la philosophie de la technique (Part I, Part II forthcoming)
• Thierry Simonelli, "Le monde, «Vu à la télé »" (internet archive version from 2012)
  • this is an excerpt from Simonelli's Günther Anders: De la désuétude de l'homme (Paris: Éditions du Jasmin, 2004)
• Detailed biography and outlines/discussions of works at know-library.net. [8/31/09: domain name not renewed since 8/2009; the internet archive only has this one version from Feb. 2006--note that the word "Situationen" is randomly inserted in many places] . The links at the end are useful.
• Handlung Kultur Interpretation: Zeitschrift für Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften.
  • Issue 3(2003), pp. 198-273 is devoted to Günther Anders"
  • humanities online page with text of preface and abstracts
• Gustav Mechlenburg, "Kultiviere deine Angst! Zu Günther Anders"
  • a post-911 reflection at textem.de, which seems to be a publisher that has essays on its website.
• Volker Kempf has several texts about Anders, 1997-2001 on his website

Various Links (back to top)

• At philtalk.de (in German): conversation about Anders among philosophy adepts in July 2002
• Ernst Schraube, "Torturing Things Until They Confess": Symposium on the Philosopher of Technology Günther Anders, June 2000 at the University of Vienna (webarchive version)
• The Marbach (Germany) Literature archive has collections with references to him
• Raimund Bahr, "Kulturgeschichte der Technik," course at the University of Salzburg, Oct. 2001 (webarchive version)
• "Philosophy of Technology" course at the University of Bremen, Spring 2000, read the Antiquiertheit des Menschen (web archive version)
• Frank Hartmann, "Kultur-Apokalyptiker und philosophischer Grenzgänger," June 30, 2002, in: Telepolis: Magazin der Netzkultur. Article on the 100th anniversary of Anders' birth
• Collection of quotations (in German) from some of Anders' works, on freenet.de.
• several listings in the Robert Jungk bibliography on the site of the Jungk-Bibliothek für Zukunftsfragen
• quotation about the national victims' memorial in Berlin that was dedicated in 1993 (scroll down).
• Volker Kempf uses a quotation against the Berlin "Murdered Jews" memorial, dedicated in 2005 (Kempf reference)
• 1988 electroacoustic Hommage "Endzeit und Zeitenende", Vienna
• Gabriele Schäfer (University of Augsburg), "Die Supersymbolwirtschaft: Arbeit und Arbeitslosigkeit im Zeitalter der Technik," June 1998 article (courtesy of internet archive)