Hanjo Kesting

Hanjo Kesting (born January 23, 1943 in Wuppertal ) is a German editor and publicist .

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From 1962 to 1969 he studied philosophy , literature and history in Cologne , Tübingen and Hamburg . Hanjo Kesting had been employed by the NDR since 1969 , where he was head of the main editorial department, Kulturelles Wort , from 1973 to 2006 .

As editor of the literary radio series Am Morgen vorgelesen and Am Abend vorgelesen , an extensive archive of acoustic literature was created under his responsibility, which among other things forms the basis of the audio books he has published for Deutsche Grammophon over many years . In 2007 the publishing house mOcean published an audio edition of world literature in 50 volumes.

As a member of various juries, Hanjo Kesting was involved in the awarding of various literary prizes (most recently in 2009 when the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was awarded). In the years 1981–1984 he took on teaching positions at the universities of Hanover and Hildesheim. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Academy for Spoken Word in Stuttgart.

Hanjo Kesting has been the cultural editor of the Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte magazine since 2006 . In 1982 he received the Critics' Prize of the Salzburg Festival and in 2005 the Kurt Morawietz Literature Prize of the City of Hanover. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 2007. He is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Günter Grass Media Foundation in Bremen. Hanjo Kesting is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Hanjo Kesting lives and works in Hamburg and has two daughters. His brother is the music critic Jürgen Kesting .

Works (selection)

Book publications

• Poets without a fatherland, conversations and essays on literature . Dietz-Verlag, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1982
• The guilty conscience about music, essays on Richard Wagner . Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1991
• The pump genius, Richard Wagner and the money . Based on printed and unprinted sources, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1993
• Theodor Fontane, Bourgeoisie and Life Music . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1998
• Gleanings, essays on literature . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2000
• Thomas and Heinrich Mann, a German brotherly dispute . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003
• Simenon, essay . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover-Laatzen 2003
• Farewell music, obituaries from 30 years . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover-Laatzen 2005
• A bright spot on the caftan, essays on German-Jewish literature . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005
• Daughter obedient to music, Mozart and his librettists . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005
• Mystery and melancholy. Literary diversions . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover-Laatzen 2007
• Encounters with Hans Mayer. Essays and Conversations . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007
• From working on memory. To Günter Grass When peeling the onion . With contributions by Hans Arnold, Hanjo Kesting, Hans Wißkirchen and Christa Wolf, Lübeck, 2007
• Do you just hit the magic word. Notes on German Romanticism. Association of Friends of Museums for Art and Cultural History Lübeck, Lübeck 2010
• A leaf from the almond tree. German writers before and after 1945 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008
• Siegfried Lenz to say hello . Publication by the Association for Literature and Art, Duisburg 2011
• Basic scripts of European culture . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012
• Charles Dickens: Kindness and Arrogance . Publication by the Association for Literature and Art, Duisburg 2012
• Does Europe have a common culture? Literature and art as the basis of our tradition . University publishing house V&R unipress, Göttingen 2013
• The secret of the sirens. Books and other adventures . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover 2014
• Moments with Jean Améry. Essays and memories . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2014
• Great novels of world literature . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2015
• Encounters with Siegfried Lenz. Essays, conversations, memories. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016
• Until the king's messenger on horseback appears. About opera and literature , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017
• Günter Grass: Sisyphus in this century, publication by the Association for Literature and Art, Duisburg 2017
• Theodor Fontane. Bourgeoisie and life music , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2019

Editions

• Richard Wagner: Letters . Selected, introduced and commented on by Hanjo Kesting; Piper Verlag, Munich 1983
• Franz Liszt / Richard Wagner: Correspondence . Published and introduced by Hanjo Kesting, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1989
• The door in the wall . Classical short stories from England, selected and introduced by Hanjo Kesting, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1988
• The dark corridor . Classic stories from Russia, selected and introduced by Hanjo Kesting, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1992
• Georg Büchner: Peace to the huts! War the palaces! . Der Hessische Landbote - Briefe, Ed. Hanjo Kesting, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2002
• Jean Améry: Charles Bovary . Essays on Flaubert and Sartre, edited by Hanjo Kesting, Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2006
• Siegfried Lenz: Water Worlds . About sea and coast, river and harbor, wrecks and divers and the luck of catching a fish, in addition to an epilogue: Kleines Strandgut, by Hanjo Kesting, mareverlag, Hamburg 2007. New edition: Hoffmann + Campe, Hamburg 2009
• The media and Günter Grass . Edited by Hanjo Kesting, SH Verlag, Cologne 2008
• In honor of Armin Sandig . Festschrift in the thirtieth year of his presidency of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg. Collected, edited and introduced by Hanjo Kesting, Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanjo Kesting in the catalog of the German National Library
• To say goodbye to Kesting in retirement
• Short biography on the website of the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tanja Lange: 50 years of tense harmony, 50 years of the Free Academy of the Arts . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-455-09295-0 , p. 117.
2. ↑ Academy for the Spoken Word | Board. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .