Category: Magnificent Rebels

“Magnificent Rebels” made it to Number 2 of the Best Non-Fiction Books January 2023 in Die Zeit in Germany.

“Magnificent Rebels” was also on a few Best Books of 2022 lists in the Netherlands. Here are a few: Athenaeum Boekhandel de Nederlandse Boekengids Trouw NRC Handelsblad

“Wulf has written a compelling collective biography of what may well have been the greatest of all such groups ever to have formed – which is to say, at once the most numerous and most influential” click here for review

This is amazing. Every year The New Yorker picks 12 non-fiction books as their "Essential Reading" of the year. This year "Magnificent Rebels" is on the list. “A buoyant work of intellectual history"  click here for full list

Such a wonderful & thoughtful write up of “Magnificent Rebels” in The Marginalian … I could have not summarised it better. click here

The Times – Book of the Year 2022 in the category ‘Ideas’. “This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to be this fun. Andrea Wulf (famous for her biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature) takes us to the small university town of Jena at the end of the 18th century. For a…

This week has been quite a week for the German edition of “Magnificent Rebels”:  Number 3 in Spiegel Bestseller Liste ( View this photo), Number 7 in Die Zeit “Bestenliste” (this is the ‘Best Book List” and Number 2 “Sachbücher des Monats” (best non-fiction books of the month) in Die Welt/WDR 5/Neue Zürcher Zeitung/ORF-Radio Österreich…

And in the Financial Times … “Andrea Wulf’s wonderful book brings to life the ‘Jena Set’ and a golden age of German culture” click here Download Financial Times – 23.11.22