Jost Nolte

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Jost Nolte

Jost Nolte (born August 29, 1927 in Kiel ; † June 24, 2011 in Schwerin ) was a German writer and journalist . He was the father of the journalist and writer Mathias Nolte .

Life

Jost Nolte grew up in Kiel, was drafted into the Navy Flak at the age of 15 and to the 5 Cavalry Regiment in Stolp / Western Pomerania at the age of 17. He experienced the end of the war in a Hamburg hospital. He graduated from the Kiel School of Academics and went to Hamburg in 1947 , where he became assistant director and then dramaturge with Willy Maertens in the Thalia Theater . In 1954 he switched to journalism. From 1957 he worked as a feature editor for Die Welt , for which he wrote theater and literary reviews. Later he took over the supplement "World of Literature" as head of department. In 1972 Die Zeit brought him to their magazine as head of text. In the same year he published his anthology "Grenzgang" with articles that he had written for the month , the Neue Rundschau and Deutschlandfunk . He also reviewed fiction for the Frankfurter Rundschau and contemporary history for Die Zeit.

He also wrote court reports for Die Zeit , for example in the case of Fritz Honka and on the "driving out of the devil" in Klingenberg, as well as reports for Stern magazine such as "Praying for Poland - in front of the gate of the Lenin shipyard in Danzig " . In 1981 he went to NDR and set up the culture department in the regional radio program in Hamburg. In addition to literary criticism, cultural policy and contemporary history became the focus of his work. He has been a freelance writer since 1990. His last book is the novel Der Feigling , the story of a man who changed his identity at the end of the Second World War.

Works (selection)

  • Border Crossings - Reports on Literature , Vienna: Europaverlag, 1972
  • Cultural policy , workbooks on politics in Hamburg, State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 1975
  • Eva Krohn or inquiries about a model , Roman, Frankfurt / M .: S. Fischer 1976
  • Harmful tendencies , Roman, Frankfurt / M .: S. Fischer 1978
  • It's your life, Anna - A father writes to his daughter , Düsseldorf: Erb Verlag 1983
  • Cultural policy as a patchwork quilt or The Revolution as a rogue , Hamburg: State Center for Political Education n.d. (1989)
  • The collapse of modernity - treatise on the last pictures , Hamburg: Rasch and Röhring 1989
  • Koba, character farce in three parts and an episode , premier: Ernst-Deutsch-Theater Hamburg 1996
  • Der Feigling , Roman, Scherz Verlag, Frankfurt / M. (Kidding) 2003

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SURNAME Nolte, Jost
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2011
Place of death Schwerin