Kurt Scheel

Kurt Scheel (born April 23, 1948 in Hamburg ; died July 31, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German cultural journalist .

Life

Scheel grew up on the Elbe island Altenwerder , where his parents ran the cinema "Altenwerder Lichtspiel". He studied German , political science and sociology in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin, where he passed the first state examination at the Free University of Berlin in 1973 . From 1977 to 1980 he worked as a DAAD lecturer for German literature and language at the University of Hiroshima . From 1980 editor, he became editor of Merkur at the side of Karl Heinz Bohrer in 1991 . In 2012 they were followed by Christian Demand and Ekkehard Knörer . After the death of his friend Michael Rutschky , he and Jörg Lau arranged his literary estate.

book

• Me & John Wayne. Plays of light . Edition Tiamat, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89320-012-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Scheel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurt Scheel , biographical information from Klett-Cotta publishing house
• Jan Feddersen : Kurt Scheel on Europe and smoking: "Thinking has to be like a fox terrier". Interview on taz.de , September 19, 2011 . 
• Kurt Scheel: I actually never wanted to go to Mercury. A sentimental journey. (pdf, 94 kB) In: Merkur 751 December 2011 . 
• Kurt Scheel , article index in the taz
• Kurt Scheel, a memory . Obituary by Karl Heinz Bohrer in Merkur 833 October 2018.
• If he was wrong, he was very wrong . Obituary by Willi Winkler in Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 3, 2018, p. 10
• "Kurt Scheel" , in the blog "Das Schema"
• "Entrance to Paradise - Confessions of a Moviegoer" by Kurt Scheel in Friedrich Berlin Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Feddersen : Kurt Scheel is dead: Often struggling - and yet brilliant. In: taz online . August 1, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018 . 
2. ^ Obituaries: Kurt Scheel, 70. In: Der Spiegel 32/2018. August 4, 2018. Retrieved August 5, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Kurt Scheel. In: prabook. Retrieved August 5, 2018 . 
4. ^ Die Zeit, August 9, 2018, p. 39.