Johannes Saltzwedel

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Johannes Saltzwedel (* 1962 ) is a German Germanist , journalist and publicist .

Life

Saltzwedel is the son of the German home historian and journalist Rolf Saltzwedel . He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied German, medieval history and philosophy in Tübingen and Oxford . After completing his doctorate in German studies, he has been an editor at Spiegel since 1991 .

Saltzwedel focuses on the topics of cultural history and classical music . He writes regularly for the magazine series SPIEGEL Wissen and SPIEGEL history (for example for magazine No. 1, 2014: Byzantium. The Empire on the Bosporus ) and is the editor of several SPIEGEL / DVA books, including gods, heroes, thinkers. The Origins of European Culture in Ancient Greece (2008), The End of the Roman Empire (2009), The Thirty Years War (2012) and The Popes (2013). Most recently, in collaboration with Dietmar Pieper, he published the SPIEGEL book The World of the Habsburgs: The Splendor and Tragedy of a European Ruling House .

Saltzwedel also published several literary history studies on Goethe and Rudolf Borchardt . In the field of the history of classical philology , he has edited Friedrich August Eckstein 's lexicon of philologists, compiled a bibliography of the book series Tusculum and Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing's transcript of a lecture by Hermann Diels on Greek philosophy from the winter semester 1897/98 published.

"Sieferle Scandal"

As a member of the jury of the non-fiction books of the month , Saltzwedel anonymously awarded the maximum number of evaluation points to a single title over a period of three months - unusual, but not illegal -: Finis Germania by Rolf Peter Sieferle . As a result, the book appeared in 9th place on the best list, which had been published regularly by the NDR and the SZ until then . This immediately resulted in a scandal after the work was described as “right-wing radical”. After a few days, on June 12, 2017, Saltzwedel put an end to the public speculation about the responsible, but not known by name, juror with a confession and at the same time left the jury. SPIEGEL editor-in-chief Klaus Brinkbäumer expressed incomprehension for Saltzwedel's book recommendation. Instead of presenting the book in SPIEGEL under his name as the SPIEGEL editor and thus opening the controversial discussion he wanted, he exploited a procedural loophole and deceived the jury colleagues, according to the criticism of co-judge Herfried Münkler .

As a result of his behavior, the jury was reorganized, in some cases with different media partners, and the procedure was given different rules. From December 2017, non-fiction books of the month were nominated again, at the same time a competing list of monthly non-fiction book recommendations, the non-fiction best-list, was created

Fonts (selection)

  • Friedrich August Eckstein: Nomenclator philologorum . Teubner, Leipzig 1871 (reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1966; complete, corrected text, edited by Johannes Saltzwedel. Hamburg 2005, PDF ).
  • “Completely out of life.” Rudolf Borchardt's anthology “Eternal supply of German poetry” as an emergency case of creative restoration. Munich 2006 (Titan. Communications from the Rudolf Borchardt Archive 5).
  • Gods, heroes, thinkers. The origins of European culture in ancient Greece. (Eds.): Karen Andresen, Susanne Beyer, Georg Bönisch…, Johannes Saltzwedel, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2008.
  • Greek philosophy. Lecture transcript from the winter semester 1897/98. (Ed.): Hermann Diels, Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2009. ISBN 978-3-515-09609-6 .
  • The Tusculum Books. Bibliography. 2nd Edition. Hamburg 2013 (2005), (online) (PDF)
  • The Germans. History and myth. (Eds.): Norbert F. Pötzl, Johannes Saltzwedel, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2013.
  • The popes, rulers of the faith - from Peter to Francis. (Eds.): Norbert F. Pötzl / Johannes Saltzwedel Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04598-0 .
  • The Bible - The most powerful book in the world. , edited by Annette Großbongardt and Johannes Saltzwedel, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04695-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Hintermeier : Commentary on Sieferle: Radical Votum . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 12, 2017 ( faz.net [accessed June 12, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Susanne Beyer: On our own behalf - “Menschenwerk. The recommendation of a collection of essays with right-wing extremist content by a SPIEGEL editor requires an explanation ”. In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 2017, p. 126-128 ( online ).
  3. ^ "Spiegel" boss has "no understanding" for Saltzwedels vote , in: FAZ-net, June 13, 2017
  4. ↑ Herfried Münkler in Lesart , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , June 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Saltzwedel, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962