Arno Widmann

Arno Widmann (born August 8, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

Arno Widmann studied philosophy at the University of Frankfurt . In 1979 he was a co-founder of the daily newspaper (taz) . There he worked as a literary editor and at times as editor-in-chief. An interview published under his responsibility in February 1987 by the writer Stefan Heym with the East Berlin biologist Jakob Segal , which contributed significantly to the spread of the conspiracy theory that the HI virus was artificially created in a US military laboratory, received some attention .

Widmann later became deputy editor-in-chief of the German Vogue . Posts followed as head of the features section of the time and as managing editor of the Berliner Zeitung ; there he was mainly responsible for the opinion side. In 2007 he became head of the features section of the Frankfurter Rundschau . Widmann has been a member of the DuMont editorial community since 2010 .

In 2002, Widmann's debut novel Sprenger was published by Folio Verlag .

Publications

• as editor: Sex & Lust: Seduction, Beauty, Love, Violence (= Aesthetics and Communication / Acute , Volume 7: Special Issue). Aesthetics & Communication , Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88245-008-8 .
• Sprinkler. Novel. (= Transfer, Volume 43). Folio Verlag , Vienna / Bozen 2002, ISBN 3-85256-221-X .
• Berlin arts section. Photos by Marta Kilińska, edited by Andreas Rostek. edition.fotoTAPETA, Berlin / Warszawa 2007, ISBN 978-3-940524-02-7 .

literature

• Thierry Chervel, Andreas Rostek (Hrsg.): Round head - Arno Widmann on his 70th birthday , e-book, edition fotoTAPETA, Berlin August 8, 2016, ISBN 978-3-940524-58-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Arno Widmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Arno Widmann at perlentaucher.de
• Deutschlandfunk nuances. Music and personal questions from November 25, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See : Editorial Perlentaucher August 8, 2016
2. ↑ Johanna Lutteroth: AIDS conspiracy: The KGB's propaganda virus . Spiegel online portal one day on June 22, 2012, accessed on December 5, 2014
3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau - Imprint ( Memento from July 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Arno Widmann . ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DuMont editorial community, accessed November 26, 2014. 
5. ↑ Provided by Perlentaucher , with contributions from Silvia Bovenschen , Eleonore Büning , Gabriele Goettle , Cees Nooteboom , Christiane Peitz , Joachim Sartorius and Karl Schlögel, among others
6. ↑ Arno Widmann turns seventy . Among other things, Gabriele Goettle reminds of the writer-taz and Cees Nooteboom of the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall .