{"id":87,"date":"2015-04-08T18:38:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T23:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicolaiherzog.de\/blog\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:39:00","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.megamaschine.org\/en\/author\/","title":{"rendered":"Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div id=\"x-section-1\" class=\"x-section cs-ta-center\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 100px 0px 45px; background-color: transparent;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px 5%;\" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><div  class=\"x-feature-box man center-text top-text cf\" style=\" max-width: none;\" data-x-element=\"feature_box\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;child&quot;:false,&quot;graphicAnimation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;graphicAnimationOffset&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;graphicAnimationDelay&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic square \"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic-outer square\" style=\"\"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic-inner square\" style=\"font-size: 200px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"square\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megamaschine.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/Scheidler_Portrait_quer_kor_ausschn_hoch_kl-226x300.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-feature-box-content \"><h4 class=\"x-feature-box-title\">Fabian Scheidler<\/h4><p class=\"x-feature-box-text\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 35px 0 0 0;\"><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text cs-ta-center\" style=\"\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><strong>Fabian Scheidler<\/strong> studied history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and theatre directing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. He works and lives in Berlin as a writer for print media, television, theatre and opera. In 2009 he co-founded the independent newscast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kontext-tv.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kontext TV<\/a>, which has since produced over 100 broadcasts on global justice issues. He also publishes in various journals, including Le Monde diplomatique, Berliner Zeitung, Taz. Die Tageszeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Der Freitag, Wiener Zeitung, the Swiss weekly WOZ, The Progressive, Common Dreams, ZNet, Scheerpost, Radio France and &#8220;Bl\u00e4tter f\u00fcr deutsche und internationale Politik&#8221; (edited by Saskia Sassen, J\u00fcrgen Habermas et al.). For the global justice network Attac he edited the <a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\/zeit-plagiat-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fake edition of the German weekly Die Zeit<\/a> in 2009, which generated nationwide attention. For this work he received the Otto Brenner Media Award for Critical Journalism. In 2010 he served as the project coordinator for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attac.de\/kampagnen\/finanzmarktkrise\/bankentribunal\/startseite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attac Tribunal on Banks at the Volksb\u00fchne <\/a>in Berlin. As a dramaturge and playwright he worked for the renowned Grips Theater in Berlin for several years. In 2013, his opera \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\/death-of-a-banker\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Death of a Banker<\/a>\u201d (music: Andreas Kersting) was premiered at the Gerhart Hauptmann Theater in G\u00f6rlitz (Germany).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As an interview partner, Fabian Scheidler is a regular guest in various media, including Radio France Culture, BBC World Service, Deutschlandradio, WDR, SWR, Bayerischer Rundfunk, ORF, Arte, 3Sat, RTL, RAI, ZEIT Online, Frankfurter Rundschau, Taz, Wiener Zeitung, Nouvel Observateur and Lib\u00e9ration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2015, Fabian Scheidler\u2019s book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.megamaschine.org\/en\/\">The End of the Megamachine. A Brief History of a Failing Civilization<\/a>\u201d was published in German. The book was translated into Dutch (Lemniscaat 2018), English (Zero Books 2020), and French (Le Seuil 2020). A Chinese edition is in preparation. In 2017, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.megamaschine.org\/en\/revolutions\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Chaos. Das neue Zeitalter der Revolutionen<\/a>\u201d (&#8220;Chaos. The New Age of Revolutions&#8221;) followed. In 2019, he co-edited \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\/the-fight-for-global-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Der Kampf um globale Gerechtigkeit<\/a>\u201d (&#8220;The Struggle for Global Justice&#8221;), conversations with Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Immanuel Wallersein, Vandana Shiva et al. Since 2015, Fabian Scheidler has been on extensive lecture tours in Europe. He also works as a visual artist, with numerous exhibitions of his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\/photosyntheses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photosyntheses<\/a>&#8220;. A selection of images from the series &#8220;Displaced Places&#8221; is incorporated in his 2019 collection of essays <a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\/books\/#essays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDie volle und die leere Welt\u201d <\/a>(&#8220;The Full and the Empty World&#8221;). In spring 2021, his book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\/books\/#the-stuff-we-are-made-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Stuff We Are Made of. Rethinking Nature and Society<\/a>&#8221; was\u00a0 published in German by the Piper publishing house. In the same year, he released his essay <a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\/books\/#mental-field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mental Field. Theatre Essentials<\/a> (Alexander Verlag Berlin).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.fabianscheidler.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fabianscheidler.com\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publications<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-section-2\" class=\"x-section\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0 0px 45px; background-color: #eaeaea;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;\" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text links\" style=\"\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-blank-4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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