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  • 1949 Born on July 15th in Langenberg (Rhineland), Germany.
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  • 1967-1972 Education: University of Heidelberg. Philosophy teachers: Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michael Theunissen, Dieter Henrich, Ernst Tugendhat.
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  • 1976 Promotion (Dr. phil.). Supervisors: Michael Theunissen and Dieter Henrich.
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  • 1987 Habilitation and appointment as “Privatdozent” in Heidelberg.
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  • 1989-2002 Professor of Philosophy in Tübingen.
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  • 1994-2005 Area editor for the fourth edition of the encyclopedia for theology and religious studies Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Religion in Past and Present).
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  • Since 1995 Regular member of Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia. 1998 director.
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  • Since 2002 Professor of Philosophy (chair) at the University of Freiburg.
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  • 2002 Conceptual design of the Martin Heidegger-Museum Meßkirch.
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  • 2003-2015 President of the Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft.
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  • 2009/10 Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), School of Language and Literature.
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  • 2013-2015 Second Speaker of the Freiburg research center SFB 1015 Muße. Konzepte, Räume, Figuren (leisure, concepts, spaces, figures).
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  • 2013/14 Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
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  • Since 2015 Correspondences, Notebooks and Manuscripts are archived by the German Literature Archive, Marbach am Neckar.
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