Florian Illies

Florian Illies (born May 4, 1971 in Schlitz ) is a German journalist , art dealer , art historian and book author . Since January 2019 he has been the managing publisher of Rowohlt Verlag . At the end of January 2020 it was announced that he would leave at his own request.

Live and act

Illies grew up in a middle-class, conservative family as the youngest of four siblings. His father was the biologist and limnologist Joachim Illies . After elementary school in Schlitz, where Gudrun Pausewang was his teacher, he attended the Winfried School in Fulda and from 1986 - during his school days - gained his first journalistic experience with the Schlitzer Boten , his home paper. Later he volunteered at the Fuldaer Zeitung . Then Illies studied art history and modern history in Bonn and Oxford . He graduated from the University of Bonn in 1998 with a Magister Artium (MA) with Andreas Tönnesmann with the work Gustav Friedrich Waagen in England. A study of the import of art historical systems during the Victorian era .

With the support of Eduard Beaucamp and Frank Schirrmacher , he began to write for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in 1991 ; In 1997 he became the features editor of the FAZ. Since 1999 he has been in charge of the “Berlin Pages” of this newspaper and then went to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung as head of the features section . After leaving the FAZ , Illies founded Monopol , a magazine for art, literature and lifestyle, in 2004 with his wife Amélie von Heydebreck , the daughter of Deutsche Bank board member Tessen von Heydebreck , with whom he has two children . Until the end of 2006 Illies was both its publisher and its editor-in-chief. In 2007, the former Welt am Sonntag culture editor Cornelius Tittel took over as editor-in-chief; Illies and his wife remained the editor.

In 2008 Illies switched to the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and initially worked for Zeit magazine . From 2009 he headed the feature section and literature together with Jens Jessen . Since 2017 Illies has been a member of the five-person editorial board of “Zeit”. Since 2018 he has also been a member of the main jury for the Henri Nannen Prize , the most important German journalism prize.

In the summer of 2011 Illies became one of the four shareholders of the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach , which mainly deals in art objects from the 19th century. At the end of 2018, Illies left Villa Grisebach, but continues to be a member of the company's advisory board.
On January 1, 2019, he succeeded Barbara Laugwitz as Managing Director at Rowohlt Verlag . At the end of January 2020, his resignation was announced for a date to be determined in 2020.

Illies was best known for his bestseller Generation Golf (2000), in which he created a critical picture of his own generation, born around 1970. In the following two volumes, Guide to Innocence (2001) and Generation Golf Two (2003), Illies sought to confirm his observations. A selection of Illies' collected art reviews and essays on culture was published in 2017 under the title Just the sky was still blue . In 2006, local talk was published , a review of a childhood in the German provinces. In 2012 Illies achieved his biggest bestseller to date: 1913: The Summer of the Century . It was Germany's best-selling non-fiction book in 2012, was on the bestseller list for more than seventy weeks and has so far been translated into 28 languages.

Awards

• 1999 - Axel Springer Prize and Ernst Robert Curtius Prize
• 2003 - Hessian Culture Prize
• 2014 - Ludwig Börne Prize
• 2016 - Max J. Friedländer Prize, awarded by the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett

Works

as an author

• Generation golf . An inspection . 13th edition S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-15065-6 (first edition 2000).
• Guide to innocence. The exercise book for a guilty conscience . Argon, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-596-50843-6 .
• Generation Golf two. Blessing, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89667-246-0 .
• Local call. Blessing, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89667-262-2 .
• 1913: the summer of the century . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-036801-0 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2012 and 2013 )
• The sky was just blue: Texts on Art , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397251-1
• 1913. What I really wanted to tell you . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397360-0

as a co-author

• 1913. Pictures before the Apocalypse , with Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy. Sieveking, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-944874-00-5

as editor

• Small German dictionary . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-10-036800-2 (together with Jörg Bong ).
• Karl Scheffler: Berlin, a city's fate. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42511-4 .
• Eduard von Keyserling: Landpartie, (afterword). Manesse, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7175-2476-2 .

literature

• Angela Kölling: Writing on the loose. Reading Florian Illies's "Generation Golf", Maurice G. Dantec 's "Périphériques", Joschka Fischer 's "My long run to myself", and Frédéric Beigbeder 's "Windows on the world" as examples of creative nonfiction . Weidler, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89693-560-1 .
• Carsten Lange: "Generally binding". Strategies of pop literary narration in Florian Illies' “Generation Golf” . In: Johannes G. Pankau (Ed.): Pop, Pop, Popular. Pop literature and youth culture . Aschenbeck & Isensee, Bremen 2004, pp. 120–130, ISBN 3-89995-149-2 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Florian Illies  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Florian Illies in the catalog of the German National Library
• Florian Illies in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Günter Kaindlstorfer in conversation with Florian Illies in 2000 ( memento from April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) for the Tages-Anzeiger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florian Illies leaves the top of Rowohlt Verlag , zeit.de, January 24, 2020
2. ↑ NZZ.ch January 28, 2020 / Paul Jandl : Florian Illies is already resigning from his position as Rowohlt publisher (comment)
3. ↑ Jörg-Uwe Albig; Isabelle Graw: Naivety as an offense An interview with Florian Illies. In: www.textezurkunst.de. 2002, accessed August 30, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Florian Illies changes to ZEIT . on: presseportal.de January 11, 2008.
5. ↑ Die Zeit , No. 27, June 25, 2009, p. 14.
6. ↑ Generation art . In: FAZ . December 17, 2010, p. 34.
7. ↑ Sebastian Preuss: Florian Illies - From top journalist to art dealer , Berliner Zeitung, November 22, 2011.
8. ↑ Florian Illies' quiet exit . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . July 16, 2018, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 29, 2018]).
9. ↑ Grisebach auction house. Florian Illies' quiet exit. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. July 16, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Florian Illies becomes Rowohlt publisher. In: www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Florian Illies leaves Rowohlt . Börsenblatt , January 24, 2020
    
12. ^ Eckhart Nickel : German problem zone gymnastics . Seldom has a guilty conscience been as entertaining as in Florian Illies' Guide to Innocence . In: The world . October 6, 2001.
13. ↑ opus5 interactive medien gmbh, http://www.opus5.de/ : S. Fischer Verlage - The sky was just blue (hardcover). Retrieved on August 6, 2018 (German). 
14. ↑ focus.de from February 11, 2014
15. ↑ https://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/article207655607/Friedlaender-Preis- geht-an-den-Berliner-Autor-Florian- Illies.html
16. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Also available as an audio book.
17. ↑ 1913 - the beginning of the present review in the Rheinische Post