
(moderator) has been the literary editor of Berlin’s “Tagesspiegel” since 1999. Born 1962 in Bayreuth. Studied German, philosophy and musicology in Würzburg and Frankfurt am Main. From the mid-1980s he wrote on literature and film for the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and the “Zeit”, later also for the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. In 2004 he was Critic-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and in 2014 he received a scholarship from the Goethe-Institut in Beijing. 2009 Alfred Kerr Prize for Literary Criticism.
Events
Literature as a commodity: mass production and language art?
Wed, 11. July, 17:00,
Studio 1 (Kunstquartier Bethanien)