Harald Jähner

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Harald Jähner, winner of the 2019 Leipzig Book Fair Prize

Harald Jähner (* 1953 ) is a German journalist and author . Since 2011 he has been honorary professor for cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts .

biography

Harald Jähner studied literature, history and art history in Freiburg and did his doctorate in Berlin. After graduating, he worked as a freelance journalist. From 1989 to 1997 Jähner headed the communications department at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. At the same time he wrote from 1994 to 1997 as a freelance literary critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . He then worked as an editor at the Berliner Zeitung , where he was in charge of the features section from 2003 to 2015. Since 2011, Jähner has been honorary professor for cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts . Jähner Wolfszeit published in 2019 . Germany and the Germans 1945–1955, a reflection on German life in the post-war decade 1945–1955, in Rowohlt Berlin. For this title he won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction / essay category in the same year .

Awards

bibliography

  • Wolfszeit , Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0013-7 .
  • Narrated, assembled, prompted text. For the construction of the novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Alfred Döblin , Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 978-3-8204-5276-1 .
  • Published together with Krista Tebbe: Alfred Döblin for example. City and literature. , Elefanten Press, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-8852-0238-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Jähner on the website of the UDK, Berlin , udk-berlin.de
  2. ^ Author profile of Harald Jähner at Rowohlt Verlag , rowohlt.de
  3. ↑ Nominations for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize , preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de, accessed on May 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ Thomas E. Schmidt: Risen from the ruins . Zeit.de, 27./29. March 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 (review).
personal data
SURNAME Jähner, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953