Elke Schmitter

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Elke Schmitter at the Leipzig Book Fair 2012

Elke Schmitter (born January 25, 1961 in Krefeld ) is a German journalist and writer .

Life

After graduating from high school, Elke Schmitter studied philosophy at the University of Munich . In 1984 she completed her studies with a master's degree . Since then, Schmitter has been working as a journalist: from 1992 to 1994 she was editor-in-chief of the Berlin daily newspaper , then freelance work for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . She has been part of the editorial team of the news magazine Der Spiegel since 2001 . On March 1, 2017, she took over the management of the cultural department. Since June 1, 2018, she has been the author of the cultural department again.

Elke Schmitter published a volume of essays on Heinrich Heine under the title Und grüß mich nicht unter den Linden (1998) , following the volume of poems Windschatten im Konjunktiv (1982 ). In 2000 a story of adultery appeared with Ms. Sartoris , which was translated into more than 20 languages ​​(according to WorldCat , the world's largest bibliographic database, into 11 languages), in 2002 a kind of Berlin society panorama with Slight Misconduct . While the narrative of the first novel is strongly based on the example of the great novelists of the 19th century such as Flaubert and Fontane , Slight Errors is in the tradition of the British social novel . In 2005 the volume of poetry No Spaniel was published ; the following year, Vera's daughter , a postmodern sequel to Mrs. Sartoris .

In autumn 2009 a translation of her poems was published under the title The stones ask me about you in English and Gaelic translation. With Verena Auffermann , Gunhild Kübler and Ursula März , Schmitter also published passion , a “female literary history” in 99 portraits in autumn 2009 . With Gabriele von Arnim , Christiane Grefe , Susanne Mayer and Evelyn Roll, she published the essay volume What to do - Democracy does not go without saying in 2017 .

Elke Schmitter curated the forum: authors at the Munich Literature Festival in November 2016 under the motto “one word gives the other” .

In 2018 she was Visiting Author / Max Kade Professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville , Tennessee .

Awards

Publications

  • Slipstream in the subjunctive. Poems. Machwerk, Siegen 1982, ISBN 3-922524-31-1 .
  • And don't greet me under the linden trees: Poems / Heinrich Heine. Commented by Elke Schmitter. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-446-18935-1 .
  • Mrs. Sartoris . Novel. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8270-0261-3 .
  • Slight misconduct. Novel. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8270-0455-1 .
  • Not a spaniel. Poems. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8270-0603-1 .
  • Vera's daughter. Novel. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0642-2 .
  • Passions: 99 women authors of world literature. Together with Verena Auffermann , Gunhild Kübler , Ursula März . Essays. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01048-8 .
  • The stones are asking about you / the stones are asking about you / tá na clocha ag cur do thuairisce. Together with Hans-Christian Oeser and Gabriel Rosenstock. Poems in German, English and Scottish Gaelic. Tá Coiscéim buioch, Dublin 2009, DNB 1001756797
  • Me, Kasimir - on board the pirate ship. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8270-5368-8 .
  • Me, Kasimir - on board the pirate ship , with pictures by Rotraut Susanne Berner, dtv, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-71634-5 .
  • Gallery of the Nameless, 15 fictions ; published with Hanns Zischler: Tales by German-speaking authors about "unknown sitters" from the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Alpheus Verlag, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-9813184-49
  • What to do - Democracy is not a matter of course ; Essays. With Gabriele von Arnim, Christiane Grefe, Susanne Meyer, Evelyn Roll. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95614-210-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Promotion for the writer and journalist: Elke Schmitter will head the "Spiegel" culture department kress.de, February 21, 2017
  2. ↑ "Getting involved in big debates": Sebastian Hammelehle is "Spiegel" head of culture - Elke Schmitter (again) author kress.de, June 6, 2018
  3. ↑ One word gives the other ( memento of the original from December 8, 2016 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. at literaturfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved December 8, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.literaturfest-muenchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Schmitter, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld