About Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Jan Philipp Reemtsma, born in 1952, is the founder and chairman of the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture and the Arno Schmidt Foundation. He is also the founder and, until March 2015, director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. His most recent publications are: “‘Sagt, hab ich recht?’ Drei Reden zur Gegenwart alter Probleme” (2024), "Christoph Martin Wieland. The Invention of Modern German Literature. A Biography“ (2023), (as co-editor) ”Christoph Martin Wieland: A Few Grains of Gold or What is Enlightenment. A Reader“ (2022), and ”Heroes and Other Problems. Essays" (2020).
