Jochen Hieber
Jochen Hieber (born September 30, 1951 in Aalen ) is a German non-fiction author and journalist. From 1983 to 2017 he was the FAZ column editor and is a television and literary critic.
Life
Jochen Hieber attended the Schubart-Gymnasium Aalen and completed a degree in German at the University of Göttingen in the 1970s . After graduating, he worked as a freelance cultural journalist and wrote literary reviews for Die Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung and Spiegel , among others . From 1983 until his retirement he was the features editor of the FAZ .
As a non-fiction author, Hieber entered 1994 with his glosses collection of words heroes, land surveyors. Articles and reviews . The prose volume Lieber Marcel followed a year later . Letters to Reich-Ranicki , which was published in an expanded new edition in 2000. As a lecturer in literary criticism, he held seminars at the universities of Heidelberg, Frankfurt am Main and Giessen.
From 2001 to 2005, Hieber moderated the television literary program Weimarer Salon at MDR . From 2003 to 2006 he took on a role as cultural representative for the soccer world championship in Germany. For many years he was the jury chairman of the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg. In 1998 he was a member of the jury for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Literature Prize. From 2011 to 2014, he chaired the jury of the German Radio Play Prize of ARD . He was also on the jury for the SWR best list .
In his home town of Nidda in the Wetterau district, Hieber organized the literature series "Nidda literarisch" for many years until 2009, which he co-founded in 1992. His successor was the editor Cordelia Borchardt. In May 2010, Hieber was awarded the Hessian Order of Merit on ribbon for his many years of voluntary work at the Niddas Literature Association.
Hieber is married and has four grown children.
Works
- "Dear Marcel": Letters to Reich-Ranicki 1995
- Word Heroes, Land Surveyors: Essays and Reviews , 1994
Honors
- Hessian Order of Merit on ribbon 2010
- German radio play award of the ARD jury chair 2011, 2012
- Friedrich Hölderlin Prize - jury chairman from 2005 to 2012
Web links
- Literature by and about Jochen Hieber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mysticism in the footnote labyrinth . The Germanist Jochen Hieber on the controversial Hölderlin publisher DE Sattler . In: Der Spiegel . January 11, 1982 ( spiegel.de ).
- Is the Hessischer Rundfunk giving up its cultural channel? , Critique by Jochen Hiebr in the FAZ on July 16, 2019
Individual references, sources
- ↑ Mysticism in the footnote labyrinth - The Germanist Jochen Hieber on the controversial Hölderlin publisher DE Sattler , Der Spiegel from January 11, 1982
- ↑ FAZ profile entry
- ↑ News from the editorial team , In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 11, 2017, p. 2.
- ↑ a b Short biographies of the jury members , SWR of October 18, 2011, accessed on July 19, 2012
- ↑ Hartmut Lange - Literature Prize Winner 1998 - Address to the award ceremony
- ^ Nidda literary archive
- ↑ Lector Cordelia Borchardt will in future only be organizing the reading series "Nidda literarisch". Founder Jochen Hieber withdraws.
- ↑ 23rd Hölderlin Prize for Klaus Merz , Lyrikzeitung online March 6, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hieber, Jochen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bask |