Felicitas von Lovenberg

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Felicitas von Lovenberg (2009)

Felicitas von Lovenberg (born March 27, 1974 in Münster ) is a German journalist , literary critic , author and publisher .

Life

Lovenberg grew up in the Münsterland . After the eleventh grade, she moved from high school Paulinum to Atlantic College in Wales , which she graduated with the International Baccalaureate . She then studied modern history in Bristol and at St Antony's College , Oxford , where she wrote her thesis on the political orientation of the weekly magazine Simplicissimus during the First World War .

In July 1998 Lovenberg joined the feature section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; there she was initially assigned to the “Art Market” department, from July 2001 to the literature department. For two years she was the responsible editor of the FAZ supplement Bilder und Zeiten , since November 2008 she was the first woman responsible for the section “Literature and Literary Life”. In October 2015, she confirmed to Spiegel that she would be leaving the FAZ editorial team by the end of January 2016 at the latest, as she was moving to Munich for private reasons.

From November 2008 to 2017 moderated Lovenberg also alternating with Thea Dorn the SWR -Literatursendung worth reading and belongs to irregular rate team also produced by SWR number I wear a big name .

Since 2009 she has been a member of the board of trustees of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain .

Since 2012 she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ; she gave the laudatory speech for the 2012 Peace Prize Laureate Liao Yiwu.

On March 15, 2016, she took over the publishing management of Piper Verlag from Marcel Hartges .

Journalism and reception

Felicitas von Lovenberg and Arno Geiger ( original soundtracks Vienna 2010)

Lovenberg publishes primarily as a literary critic . In 2005 she also published the essay Do you fall in love often, rarely get engaged, never get married? - The longing for romantic love , in which it presents a critical view of conventional marriage , marriage of convenience and reason , multiple marriages as well as marriage for three and also prompts a consideration of singles . At the end of this book, which is underpinned by numerous references to literary history, but also to the world of gossip , she pleads for “The ideal relationship: Endstation Sehnsucht”, a love bond without a marriage certificate and shared apartment. Her report appeared in 2014 and suddenly there were six of me. From the life of a perfectly normal blended family .

Awards

Publications

As editor
  • Jane Austen: About love . Selected by Felicitas von Lovenberg. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-34961-7 .

Web links

Commons : Felicitas von Lovenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Head of literature for the newspaper: Felicitas von Lovenberg leaves the "FAZ" . In: Spiegel Online . October 30, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 30, 2015]).
  2. ↑ SWR television: the program is worth reading
  3. ^ Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain: Committees
  4. ^ Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Felicitas von Lovenberg appointed to the Board of Trustees
  5. ↑ Felicitas von Lovenberg becomes publisher of Piper Verlag , buchreport , January 26, 2016; accessed on January 11, 2018
  6. ↑ Press release of the Board of Trustees of the Hildegard von Bingen Prize from February 2011 ( Memento from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 512 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Lovenberg, Felicitas von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster