Andreas Isenschmid

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Andreas Isenschmid (* 1952 in Basel ) is a Swiss journalist and literary critic .

Life

Isenschmid studied philosophy , German and history in Basel and Frankfurt am Main . He completed his studies with a thesis on the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci ( on the theory of revolution in Antonio Gramsci's political philosophy , licensed thesis Basel 1977) and was an assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Basel . He then worked as an editor at the Swiss radio station DRS , as head of literature at Weltwoche and as head of features at the Tages-Anzeiger . Since the founding of the NZZ am Sonntag in 2002, he has been writing literary reviews for its features section. He is also a literary critic for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and the TV station 3sat .

From 1990 to 2005, Isenschmid was part of the literary program Literaturclub des Schweizer Ferns TV , whose concept he developed in 1990 together with Ueli Heiniger . From 1988 to 1991 and 1994 to 1995 Isenschmid was a juror for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , which he now moderates for 3sat. He has been a member of the jury of the Swiss Book Prize since 2011, and in 2012 he was a member of the jury for the German Book Prize .

Andreas Isenschmid is married, has three children and lives in Berlin . In 2010, he described his particular passion for the work of Marcel Proust in the essay Views of a couch potato Proustian . In 2017 his picture biography about Proust was published by Deutsches Kunstverlag.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rasante Schweizer ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Swiss television from July 11, 2006.
  2. ↑ Andreas Isenschmid: Views of a couch potato Proustian (pdf; 1.9 MB). In: Bücher am Sonntag of January 31, 2010, pp. 12-14.
personal data
SURNAME Isenschmid, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel