Edo Reents

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Edo Reents (born September 26, 1965 in Wittmund , East Friesland ) is a German cultural journalist and literary critic .

Life

Reents studied German, journalism and philosophy at the University of Münster and received his doctorate there in 1995 on Thomas Mann's Schopenhauer reception.

After completing his studies, he began writing in 1999 for the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung on pop music and humanities conferences, among other things . In April 2001 he moved with the local department head Claudius Seidl as well as Niklas Maak , Georg Diez and the film critic Michael Althen as editor for the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , where he was responsible for pop music until 2006 . Since March 2006 Reents has been writing (editorial abbreviation edo ) in the literary department of the FAZ, from January 2012 he was one of the deputies of the head of culture Nils Minkmar . Between 2015 and 2019 he was head of the feature pages of the FAZ, and since October 2019 he has been editor there again.

Reents lives in Heidelberg .

Fonts

  • To Thomas Mann's Schopenhauer reception . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1998 ISBN 3-8260-1336-0 (dissertation).
  • Thomas Mann . Short biography. Claassen, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-546-00291-1 .
  • Neil Young. A biography . Rowohlt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-87134519-7 .
  • FAZ - Heroes of Pop . Audiobook with portraits of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Lou Reed, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Keith Richards and Pete Townshend. Just published, Munich 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.faz.net/redaktion/edo-reents-11104067.html , accessed on January 4, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Reents, Edo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary critic and cultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittmund