Georg Diez

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Georg Diez (2018)

Georg Diez (* 1969 in Munich ) is a German journalist , columnist and book author and has been editor-in-chief for THE NEW INSTITUTE since October 2019 .

Life

Georg Diez grew up as the son of a Protestant pastor and a church musician in Munich- Oberföhring . His parents divorced when he was six years old. Diez studied history and philosophy in Munich , Paris, Hamburg and Berlin and attended the German School of Journalism in Munich. He began his journalistic career in 1998 as a theater critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and in 2001 switched to the then newly founded Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . He then worked as a literary critic for Die Zeit and switched to Spiegel in 2010 as an author .

In 2009 he presented his autobiographical essay The Death of My Mother , in which he describes how his mother Hannelore (1935–2005) fought her cancer. The book was shortlisted for the Aspects Literature Prize and sparked a debate about what the limits of writing about illness and family are. In 2010 Georg Diez undertook a research together with the Berlin artist and filmmaker Christopher Roth , which they called 80 * 81 . Research was carried out in a different place in the world every month, for example in Johannesburg, New York, Berlin and Shanghai . In order to make their research visible at regular intervals, they worked together with the theater director René Pollesch to develop “theatrical knowledge performances with a game character”. The project ended with an eight-hour opera performance at the Munich Opera Festival. Diez and Roth published ten books on this project.

Diez repeatedly deals with the political, ethical and social questions of our time, in his book “Die last Freiheit” (2015) it is the discussion about self-determined death in “Martin Luther, mein Vater und ich” (2017) it is the faith and the legacy of Protestantism, in “The Other Land” (2018) it is the shift to the right and the aggressive reaction to the admission of refugees.

In his column S.PON - The Critic , which Diez wrote for Spiegel Online from January 2011 to September 2018 , he often dealt with the critical issues of our day, from austerity policy to the European crisis, from migration policy to the connection between Capitalism and climate change. In May 2019, he announced that he would be leaving the mirror at the end of September 2019 after nine years. Since then he has been working for THE NEW INSTITUTE, an Institute for Advanced Study founded in Hamburg in 2020, which combines theory and practice in the search for concrete solutions to the most pressing problems of our time.

Diez is a member of the movement Democracy in Europe 2025, founded in 2016 . Diez lives with his family in Berlin . Between 2016 and 2017 Diez was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University for a year and wanted to "interrupt journalism" during this time.

Most recently, his essay “Power to the People” was published (together with Emanuel Heisenberg), which was about describing how democracy could be improved with technological means, a political philosophy for the digital age.

reception

In February 2012, Georg Diez described Christian Kracht and his novel Imperium as a “bouncer of right thoughts” and diagnosed “ totalitarian thinking” in an article . In an open letter, Diez was then criticized by several authors, including Elfriede Jelinek , Daniel Kehlmann and Monika Maron . He "crossed the boundaries between criticism and denunciation" and "consistently" ascribed "statements by literary narrators and characters" to the author. The article also sparked a media discussion about the methods of contemporary literary criticism.

In the first edition of his book Das Andere Land (2018), Diez falsely claimed that Ulrich Greiner , former head of the Zeit column, had signed the 2018 declaration against mass immigration. The brochure "Alles nur Theater?", Supported by the Berlin Senator for Culture, Klaus Lederer , also referred to this representation . On dealing with the Kulturkampf from the right ”. After Greiner obtained a declaration of discontinuance, new editions were only allowed to appear corrected.

Works (selection)

Monographs

editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Diez: The death of my mother . 2009, p. 62-70 .
  2. Review of September 19, 2009 in Die Presse
  3. The veil over the last things
  4. The Great Change. In: The daily newspaper. (Article on project 80 * 81, taz.de ).
  5. Kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de
  6. SPON - The Critic. Column at Spiegel Online
  7. ^ After the departure of Jan Fleischhauer: The columnist and author Georg Diez also leaves the mirror. In: meedia.de. May 16, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019 .
  8. THE NEW INSTITUTE website
  9. ^ Movement website
  10. Georg Diez: The death of my mother. Kiepenheuer and Witsch Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04142-2 ( perlentaucher.de ).
  11. Jump right: The weakening of democracy begins in the middle. In: Spiegel Online, August 28, 2016 ( spiegel.de ).
  12. Georg Diez: The Kracht method . In: Der Spiegel . No. 07 , 2012 ( spiegel.de ).
  13. Open letter to "Spiegel". Boundaries between criticism and denunciation exceeded In: Börsenblatt. ( boersenblatt.net ).
  14. Iris Radisch : Complaint to the employer . In: The time . No. 9 , 2012 ( zeit.de ).
  15. ^ Lothar Müller: Fantasy and Format . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 21, 2012.
  16. Georg Diez: The other country . 1st edition. S. 132 .
  17. Ideologically extravagant brochure. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  18. Christine Lemke-Matwey, Adam Soboczynski: Handout of the mobile advice: Who is not for us, can only be suspicious! In: Die Zeit Online. February 27, 2019, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  19. Silke Hohmann: The 80 * 81 series pursues an idiosyncratic thesis: Exactly 30 years ago, the crises of today emerged - monopoly. In: monopoly. April 29, 2010 ( monopol-magazin.de ).