Delf Schmidt
Delf Schmidt (born 1945 in Bobeck near Flensburg ) is a German lecturer .
Life
Delf Schmidt studied Romance and German in Paris and Hamburg. He completed a teaching traineeship and received his doctorate in French Romance studies in 1977 with a dissertation on Louis Aragon . From 1977 to 2000 Schmidt was an editor at Rowohlt Verlag and since 1978 co-editor of the publishing magazine Rowohlt's literary magazine . When a new business economy moved in at Rowohlt Verlag, many of the authors supervised by Schmidt left the publisher; Elfriede Jelinek , Alban Nikolai Herbst and Tahar Ben Jelloun went with Schmidt in October 2000 to the then young Berlin Verlag . Schmidt has been working as a freelancer since 2012.
As a publisher's editor, he supervised the authors Elfriede Jelinek , Herta Müller , Wilhelm Genazino , FC Delius , Péter Esterházy , Mathias Énard and Alban Nikolai Herbst , and in his freelance work there are books by Péter Nádas and Jean-Philippe Toussaint . He also edited translations and editions of works by Albert Camus , Claude Simon , Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Danilo Kiš , Jean Echenoz , the critical edition of Lautréamont and complete editions by Italo Svevo and Tommaso Landolfi . For the translation of Jonathan Littell's French bestseller Die Wohlgesinnten into German, Schmidt initially looked for a translator with an advertisement and then worked with the author to correct the content himself.
Fonts (selection)
- Aragon: on the conception of socialist realism in his work . Lüdke, Hamburg 1980. Zugl .: Univ., Department of Philosophy a. Sozialwiss., Diss., Hamburg 1980, ISBN 978-3-920588-57-5 .
- (Ed.): Esterházy, Péter: Péter Esterházy . Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2003.
- The invisible second , opening lecture on the theme day “The Art of Lecturing” at the Berlin International Literature Festival 2016. Printed in: VOLLTEXT , 4/2016
- with Daniel Graf (Ed.): Péter Nádas read: Images and texts for the "parallel stories" . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-04696-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Delf Schmidt in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Delf Schmidt , at the Berlin International Literature Festival , 2016
- Delf Schmidt , at Theater der Zeit , as of 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Delf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bobeck near Flensburg |