Harro Zimmermann

Harro Zimmermann (born June 2, 1949 in Delmenhorst ) is a German literary scholar , publicist and radio editor . He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the jury of the best non-fiction book list from Welt, WDR 5, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and ORF 1. He works and publishes in the field of German cultural, literary and media history from the 18th to the 21st century .

Life

Zimmermann studied law , German , political science and philosophy in Kiel and Göttingen . He worked in adult education from 1975 to 1979, received his doctorate in 1980 with a dissertation on Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and worked as a grammar school teacher from 1979 to 1982. In 1982 he moved to the University of Bremen as a literary historian in the research focus 'Late Enlightenment' at the University of Bremen, where he was employed until 1987. In 1988, after years of freelance journalism, he became cultural editor at Radio Bremen . From 1995 to 2000 he was in charge of the 'CampusRadio' project, which was supported by the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg and Radio Bremen.

Zimmermann was Chairman of the Board of the Society for German Press Research from 1996 to 1998 , from 1996 to 2006 a member of the Advisory Board of the Board of Directors of the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel , and from 2000 to 2002 honorary managing director of the Günter Grass Foundation in Bremen. After his habilitation in 1998, he was appointed adjunct professor for modern German literature at the University of Bremen in 2006. Zimmermann has emerged for two decades with a number of well-respected books and biographies about Günter Grass, Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich Gentz, and Friedrich Sieburg. Since his retirement in 2014, he has been working as a non-fiction author and freelance journalist for newspapers, magazines and radio. He is co-editor of the Hamburg edition of the works of Siegfried Lenz ['The Model' (2018), 'The Loss' (2019) and 'The Rejection' (2020)]. Harro Zimmermann is married to Margot Zimmermann, née Rothenbusch, and the couple have a son.

Fonts (selection)

• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Special volume 'Text + Criticism'. Munich 1981 (co-editor / author)
• Johann Gottlieb Schummel: The Revolution in Scheppenstedt. Bremen 1986 (Ed.)
• Freedom and history. FG Klopstock as a historical poet and thinker. Heidelberg 1987
• Travel destination revolution. Reports of German travelers from Paris 1789–1805. Reinbek bei Hamburg 1988 (Author / Ed. With Heiner Boehncke)
• Andreas GF Rebmann: HansKiekindieWelts travels in all four parts of the world. Bremen 1989 (Ed.)
• Horror myths - images of hope. The French Revolution in German Literature. Essays. Frankfurt / Main 1989 (Ed. / Author)
• The German novel of the late Enlightenment. Fiction and reality. Heidelberg 1990 (Ed. / Author)
• New Germany. Inside views of a reunited nation. Frankfurt / Main 1993 (Ed. With JD Kogel / W. Schütte)
• Adolph Freiherr Knigge. New studies. Bremen 1998 (Ed. / Author)
• Enlightenment and change of experience. Studies on the German literary history of the late 18th century. Göttingen 1999 (habilitation thesis)
• Günter Grass / Harro Zimmermann: From the adventure of the Enlightenment. Workshop discussions. Göttingen 1999/2000²
• Rainer Maria Rilke. Seals and memories. An audio book (ed. With W. Weber). Freiburg 2000
• Peter Rühmkorf reads poetry and prose. An audio book (ed. With W. Weber). Göttingen 2000
• Günter Grass. Life and work. An audio book. Munich 2002
• Literally. Small works on the history of literature on the radio. Bremen 2003
• Our Klopstock. A lyrical concert of voices. Audio book. Göttingen 2003 (Ed. / Author)
• Günter Grass among the Germans. Chronicle of a relationship. Göttingen 2006
• Dual talents: Günter Grass & Walter E. Richartz. Homage and Memorial. Die Horen 227th vol. 52nd Bremerhaven 2007 (ed.)
• Friedrich Schlegel or The Longing for Germany. Paderborn u. a. 2009
• Günter Grass among the Germans. Chronicle of a relationship. Göttingen 2010
• Friedrich Gentz. The invention of realpolitik. Paderborn et al. 2012; Review of collectors of amorous love affairs and advocates of conservatism in the book market - Book of the Week on Deutschlandfunk (DLF) (February 17, 2013) by Wilfried F. Schoeller [1] [2]
• Friedrich Sieburg - esthete and provocateur. Göttingen 2015
• Günter Grass and the Germans. A disentanglement. Göttingen 2017
• Editor of Siegfried Lenz: The model. Novel. Hamburg 2018
• Editor of Siegfried Lenz: The loss. Novel. Hamburg 2019
• Editor of Siegfried Lenz: The rebellion. Novel. Hamburg 2020
• A German warrior of god? The assassin Carl Ludwig Sand. The story of radicalization. Paderborn u. a. 2020

Web links

• Literature by and about Harro Zimmermann in the catalog of the German National Library