Ulrich Raulff

Ulrich Raulff (born 1950 as Ulrich Raulf in Hülseberg, Arnsberg) is a German cultural scientist and writer.

Early life Raulff studied English, philosophy and history at Marburg University, gaining his doctorate under the philosopher in October 1977.

Career After changing his name back to Raulff in 1977, he habilitated at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1995 in cultural studies. Since 1994 he was feuilleton editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, since 1997 head of department and from 2001 a senior editor with the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 1979, he was one of the founders of the magazine Tumult. He researches and publishes on Marc Bloch, Aby Warburg and the George Circle. In 2018 he departed his role at the German Museum of Modern Literature, after leading the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach for nearly 15 years.

Raulff is a member of the foundation board of the Stefan George Foundation. He is a member of the PEN Centre Germany and since 2007 the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt.

Prizes For his book , in which he studied the history of the George circle after the death of Stefan Georges in 1933, Raulff received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2010 in the category "Non-fiction and essayistics". In 1998, he was awarded the Science Prize of the Aby-Warburg Foundation, 2013 with the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize. In 2013, he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.