Claudius Seidl

Claudius Seidl (born June 11, 1959 in Würzburg ) is a German publicist and film critic .

Life

Claudius Seidl was born in Würzburg in 1959 and graduated from high school in Bamberg in 1977 . He studied theater and political science as well as economics at the University of Munich .

Seidl began his journalistic career in 1983 as a freelance film critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Munich, from 1985 also for Die Zeit and from 1987 for Tempo . In 1990 he became head of the popular culture department at Spiegel . In 1996 he went back to the Süddeutsche Zeitung and became deputy column editor there .

In 2001, together with Florian Illies , he took over the management of the feature section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , with responsibility for the Berlin feature section. Since the end of 2002 he has been head of department together with Volker Weidermann , who later switched to Spiegel . Seidl now lives in Munich and Berlin . In several books he deals with topics of film, the generation issue and the problem of living in Berlin as a Munich resident.

Seidl has been a regular participant in the political talk show Thadeusz and the observer on rbb television since 2013 .

In 2010, Seidls came across as part of a review of Henryk M. Broder's book Hurray, we capitulate! made statements to a broader response. With regard to secularization and enlightenment in the Islamic world, Seidl had noted in his review: “And if we spoiled Westerners sometimes suffer from the pace, the pressure and the coldness of the Western conditions, we shouldn't demand too hard that everyone should be Syrian Bauer would like to long for these conditions very urgently. "

Claudius Seidl is Roman Catholic and lives in the eastern part of Berlin.

Works

• The German film of the fifties . Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-86102-7 .
• Billy Wilder . Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-00657-7 .
• The wild life with Uschi Obermaier . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-455-08603-9 .
• Mercilessly happy with Andrea Parr. dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-30495-2 .
• Men eat meat, women eat vegetables . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-462-02955-X .
• Berlin speaks here , with Georg Diez, Nils Minkmar , Peter Richter and Anne Zielke. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-4620-3342-7 .
• Beautiful young world: Why we don't get older anymore , Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-4421-5425-8 .
• Look at this city: New stories from barbaric Berlin , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007 ISBN 978-3-4620-3790-6 .
• Till Brönner & Claudius Seidl: Talking Jazz . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04167-5 .
• Images in the head with Michael Ballhaus . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04566-9 .
• (Ed.): Michael Althen . Honey i'm in the cinema! Texts about films, actors and actresses. Karl Blessing, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-89667-535-4 . (With a foreword by Tom Tykwer and a register of names)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Claudius Seidl, Critic of Islam: Our holy warriors , Frankfurter Allgemeine on Sunday, January 10, 2010
2. ↑ Reinhard Mohr : Embarrassing Enlightenment Lessons , Spiegel-Online , January 15, 2010
3. ↑ Thomas Steinfeld : Our hate preachers , Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 14, 2010 ( online version )
4. ↑ In the Crossfire of Criticism: The Islam Debate - A New Cold War? on YouTube ZDF nachtstudio , July 18, 2010; Panelists: Hamed Abdel-Samad , Henryk M. Broder, Lamya Kaddor , Claudius Seidl; Program announcement
5. ^ Necla Kelek : Critique of Islamic Criticism: You cooked with hatred , FAZ, January 22, 2010 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Claudius Seidl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Claudius Seidl - CV on FAZ.net
• Short biography and reviews of works by Claudius Seidl at perlentaucher.de
• Claudius Seidl on "Single-Generation" , a private website by Bernd Kittlaus