Gregor Dotzauer
Gregor Dotzauer (born May 13, 1962 in Bayreuth ) is a German literary critic , essayist and cultural editor .
Life
In 1981, after graduating from the modern-linguistic Graf-Münster-Gymnasium , Dotzauer did his community service in the geriatric psychiatry of the Bayreuth district hospital . In the winter of 1982 he began studying German , philosophy and musicology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In the winter semester of 1984 he continued his studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed his master's degree (MA) at the end of 1987 with a thesis on Walter Benjamin's early work on the philosophy of language .
As early as autumn 1985 Dotzauer wrote for the newspapers FAZ , Zeit and the EPD . From 1990 to 1991 he headed the culture department at Elle , from 1995 to 1996 he was the literary editor of the Wochenpost and began work as a literary and film critic for national newspapers such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung , but also for the Frankfurter Rundschau , Die Woche and the news magazine The mirror . Lectureships and workshops on literary criticism took him to the Humboldt University in Berlin, to the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel and, as a scholarship holder, to Washington University in St. Louis .
As an essayist and literary scholar, Dotzauer has written for text + kritik , Kursbuch , Sinn und Form as well as for radio , for example for Deutschlandfunk Köln or Deutschlandradio Kultur . He also moderated panel discussions and discussions with authors .
Dotzauer has been the literary editor of the Berliner Tagesspiegel since 1999 .
Publications
- Gregor Dotzauer: A sky arches there that means: Without luck. About Ernst Toller . Frankfurter Bund für Volksbildung . Frankfurt am Main 1988. 55 pages, illustrated, ISBN 3-927269-02-6
Jury memberships
- 2001–2008 Berlin artist program of the DAAD , literature section
- 2004–2009: Kranichstein Literature Prize
- 2010: International Literature Prize House of World Cultures
- since 2010: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize from the Robert Bosch Foundation
- 2011: German Book Prize
- since 2017: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
Awards
- 2004: Scholarship from the Max Kade Foundation combined with a teaching position for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis
- 2009: Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism
Web links
- Literature by and about Gregor Dotzauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Der Tagesspiegel : The latest articles by Gregor Dotzauer
- Nicole Stocks: Why literary criticism, Mr. Dotzauer? , Interview with Kerr Prize Winner Gregor Dotzauer, buchreport on May 20, 2009, online at buchreport.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Information according to the information from the editorial staff of the Tagesspiegel on request from user: Hedwig Storch
- ↑ On Max Kade Writers and Critics ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 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 Washington University in St. Louis , supported by the Max Kade Foundation in New York
- ^ The Berlin literary criticism: "His work captivates with complex arguments developed"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dotzauer, Gregor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German critic and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |