Frank Berberich

Frank Berberich (* 1949 in Wiesbaden ) is a German cultural journalist and publisher. He is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Berlin-based German edition of the quarterly magazine Lettre International , which sees itself as a European cultural newspaper . He is also the managing director of Lettre International Verlags GmbH.

Life

In 1979 Berberich co-founded the Berlin newspaper Die Tageszeitung (taz). He left the editorial office together with Arno Widmann in November 1980, also out of dissatisfaction with the difficult placement of cultural topics in the taz, which the two of them called a "living corpse" when they left. In 1988 Berberich published the first German edition of Lettre International, a cultural magazine that was founded in Paris in 1984 by Antonin J. Liehm . The aim was to create an international, interdisciplinary intellectual publication appearing in different languages ​​and countries as well as a European network of ideas.

In the first few years Berberich worked as a publisher with the daily newspaper, and in the mid-1990s, Lettre International Verlags GmbH became independent.

Berberich sees the magazine as a forum for different forms of creativity: "Learning to see yourself through the eyes of others is what the magazine should serve." He wants to counteract the provincialism of his own culture.

Apart from occasional editorials, Berberich does not appear as an author; he confines himself to interviews. Interlocutors were u. a. Paul Virilio (volume 54), Abdelwahab Meddeb (volume 54), Amir Hassan Cheheltan (volume 88) or - not shown as an interview in the publisher's archive - Etel Adnan (volume 99). As a keyword, the Lettre publisher offers its authors plenty of space to illuminate their lives and work in detail.

Initially, Berberich also used his cultural magazine as a basis for other cultural projects. In the past, the publisher was able to obtain support from cultural institutions, foundations and companies. Most recently, from 2002 to 2006, the Aventis Foundation financed a world prize for the best literary reportage, the Lettre Ulysses Award .

Awards

• In 2010, Berberich was named cultural journalist of the year 2009 by Medium Magazin .
• On March 18, 2010, Berberich received the Will Grohmann Prize from the Berlin Academy of the Arts .
• In 2010 Berberich was nominated for the Henri Nannen Prize , Category: Special Prize.

Web links

• Picture by Frank Berberich and interview with tip Berlin about the sensational Berberich interview with Thilo Sarrazin
• Portrait of Frank Berberich and Lettre International in the Berliner Zeitung
• Homepage of Berberich's magazine Lettre International

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ http://www.lettre.de/content/impressum
3. ↑ Jörg Magenau, The taz. A newspaper as a way of life. Munich 2007. p. 107
4. ↑ http://www.lettre.de/projekte
5. ↑ The Journalists of 2009 . In: Medium Magazin online on December 21, 2009, accessed on January 14, 2010.
6. ↑ Berlin Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 8, 2009, 7:20 pm  
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