Andreas Breitenstein
Andreas Breitenstein (born 1961 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist and literary critic .
Life
Andreas Breitenstein grew up in Zurich and studied German , philosophy and art history at the University of Zurich from 1981 to 1988 . He worked as an advertising copywriter and as a freelance literary critic for Swiss newspapers and in 1992 became a member of the features section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , where he looks after the cultures and literatures of Austria, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and Latin America. In the newspaper he also writes on social issues in the Asian world.
Breitenstein's literary interests lie primarily with writers from the Austrian, Scandinavian and East Central European regions ( Gstrein , Glavinic , Enquist , Petterson , Stasiuk , Bartis , Cărtărescu ). He is one of Roberto Bolaño's discoverers for the German-speaking area and one of Imre Kertész 's exegetes .
Breitenstein received the Alfred Kerr Prize in 2017 .
Fonts (selection)
- (Ed.): The culture industry. Thirty approaches. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-518-39078-8 .
- The tracker in the exile of the poets. Acceptance speech Alfred Kerr Prize. In: NZZ , March 25, 2017, p. 30 f.
literature
- Norbert Gstrein : The critic can also understand something about mathematics . Laudation for the Alfred Kerr Prize. In: NZZ , March 25, 2017, p. 31.
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Breitenstein in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Andreas Breitenstein , at NZZ
- Research article by Andreas Breitenstein , at Swissbib
- Andreas Breitenstein , at MVB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breitenstein, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |