Gustav Seibt

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Gustav Seibt (born March 10, 1959 in Munich ) is a German historian , literary critic , writer (essay) and journalist . He has been working for the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 2001 and publishes historical non-fiction books.

Life

Seibt attended the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich from 1969 to 1978 , where he passed his Abitur . He then studied history as well as German, Latin and Italian literature in Konstanz, Munich, Bielefeld and Rome. In 1990 he studied Medieval History with Arno Borst in Konstanz with the dissertation Anonimo Romano. History writing in Rome on the threshold of the renaissance to Dr. phil. PhD. Seibt's oral doctoral examination, at which the later FAZ co-editor Frank Schirrmacher was also present, was literarily processed by Eckhard Henscheid in the short story 10: 9 for straw .

From 1987 to 1996 he was the features editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and from 1994, as successor to Schirrmacher, he was head of the literary and literary life editorial team . In 1997 he moved to the culture department of the Berliner Zeitung . In 2000/01 he was the author of the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit . He has been writing for the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 2001 .

In 1998/99 he was visiting professor for literary criticism at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Seibt has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 2003 and of the literature section of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2004 .

In 2001, his book on the struggle for Rome (1870) received great attention . According to Paul Hoser , he “succeeded in writing a piece of history in the classical tradition”. Christof Dipper , who identifies Seibt as a historian and journalist as well as a "high level Italian expert", considers the book to be "thoughtful" and "stimulating".

He dealt extensively with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; several of his works were non-fiction books of the month : Goethe and Napoleon. A historical encounter (1st place in October 2008), Goethe's authority. Essays and Speeches (5th place in August 2013) and With a kind of anger. Goethe in the Revolution (3rd place in December 2014).

Seibt has been a partner of the Berlin FDP politician Carl Grouwet since 2009 and lives in Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

  • Anonimo romano. Historiography in Rome on the threshold of the Renaissance (= language and history . Vol. 17). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-608-91614-8 (plus dissertation, University of Konstanz, 1990).
  • The comma in the peanut butter. Essays on literature and literary criticism (= Fischer . 13874). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13874-4 .
  • So that we know what we have experienced. Time of history, time of the novel (= character . 2). Alexander, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89581-027-4 .
  • Rome or death. The fight for the Italian capital. Siedler, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88680-726-6 .
  • Durs Grünbein u. a .: Sleepless in Rome. Experiment on the satirical poet Juvenal (= lectures from the Warburg house . Vol. 5). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003685-0 .
  • Canaletto in the station district. Cultural criticism and awareness of the present (= ZuKlampen! -Essay ). To Klampen, Springe 2005, ISBN 978-3-934920-76-7 .
  • (Ed.): Talking democratically. Parliament, media and critical public in Germany (= Valerio . 2). Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89244-987-4 .
  • Goethe and Napoleon. A historical encounter. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57748-2 ; Paperback edition: dtv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-34610-8 .
  • German surveys. The classic and the sick (= ZuKlampen! -Essay ). To Klampen, Springe 2008, ISBN 978-3-86674-024-2 .
  • Goethe's authority. Essays and speeches (= ZuKlampen-Essay ). To Klampen, Springe 2013, ISBN 978-3-86674-223-9 .
  • With a kind of anger. Goethe in the revolution . CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-40667-055-8 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutschlandfunk review by Joachim Büthe , there: "The original event, which the story is based on, took place in 1991. [...] Not only the then doctoral candidate, the later and now again former head of literature at the FAZ, Gustav Seibt appears in it, but also his predecessor in this function and today's editor of the paper, Frank Schirrmacher. "
  2. ↑ See u. a. Peter Stadler : The historical book . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 10, 2001, p. 62; Ralph Bollmann : Trauma of Catholicism, Victory of the Nation-State . What was the German capital question in 1990 compared to the battle for Rome in the 19th century? Nothing, says Gustav Seibt rightly . In: the daily newspaper , No. 6587, October 30, 2001, p. 14; Tilman Krause : Rome for advanced learners. Gustav Seibt describes how the eternal city became the capital of a modern state in 1870 . In: Die Welt , Vol. 52, May 11, 2002, No. 108, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Paul Hoser : Rome or Death. The fight for the Italian capital by Gustav Seibt . In: Zeitschrift für Politik NF 50 (2003) 4, pp. 478-480.
  4. ↑ Christof Dipper : Rome or death. The fight for the Italian capital by Gustav Seibt . In: Historische Zeitschrift 278 (2004) 2, pp. 488–490.
  5. ↑ Short biography. In: carlgrouwet.de. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Gustav Seibt , deutscheakademie.de, accessed on July 11, 2017.
  7. ↑ Press release of the Board of Trustees of the Hildegard von Bingen Prize from March 2013 ( Memento from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Seibt, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, literary critic, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich