Malte Herwig

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Malte Herwig (born October 2, 1972 in Kassel ) is a German journalist , writer and literary critic .

After attending the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel, Malte Herwig studied literature, history and political science at the universities of Mainz , Oxford and Harvard . From 2000 to 2003 he was a fellow at Merton College in Oxford, where he received his doctorate in 2002 with a thesis on Thomas Mann . His dissertation , educated citizens on the wrong track: Natural science in the work of Thomas Mann , was awarded the first Thomas Mann Prize of the German Thomas Mann Society in 2004.

Herwig has published in German and international media since 2002, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Welt , Deutschlandradio Kultur , Literatures , Cicero , Weltwoche , Observer and New York Times . For several years he was an editor in the culture department of Spiegel , where he caused a sensation with investigative cultural reports on Schiller's skull, the Mexican reading police, the Holocaust denier David Irving and the North Korean film industry. In 2005, Elites in an egalitarian world appeared , addressing the newly emerging debate about elite universities.

In November 2010 the DVA published his biography about the writer and later Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke Master of the Twilight .

In 2009 it sparked a controversy when, based on research in the Federal Archives, he revealed the alleged NSDAP membership of the composer Hans Werner Henze and the writer Dieter Wellershoff in the Weltwoche and the Zeit magazine . The journalist Franziska Augstein replied that Henze did not deserve that his "lifelong advocacy in word and tone for peace, humanity and justice [...] be degraded to an exercise of penance". However, the authenticity of Henze and Wellershoff's NSDAP membership cards could not be refuted. On the subject of NSDAP membership, Herwig published the Spiegel bestseller Die Flakhelfer in 2013 .

In the summer of 2015, The Woman Who Says No was published about the life of the painter Françoise Gilot , the only woman who dared to leave Picasso . The book is based on numerous encounters with Gilot, which Herwig visited in her studios in Paris and New York, and was on the Spiegel bestseller list for weeks.

In 2018, Malte Herwig discovered several hundred audio cassettes with conversations the reporter had with Konrad Kujau , the forger of the Hitler diaries, between 1980 and 1983 in the cellar of the former stern reporter Gerd Heidemann . He then convinced the Gruner und Jahr publishing company to make a podcast out of the biggest press scandal in German history for the 70th anniversary of stern . Herwig is the author and speaker of the podcast "Faking Hitler", which became one of the most successful podcasts of 2019 in Germany, received the European Publishing Award and nominated for the German Podcast Prize in the category "Best Journalistic Achievement" and the INMA Global Media Award has been.

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  1. ↑ The swapped heads , DER SPIEGEL, May 5, 2008
  2. ^ The Reading Police , DER SPIEGEL, September 24, 2007
  3. ↑ The gamer with the swastika , DER SPIEGEL, January 16, 2006
  4. ^ North Korea's Very Cautious Cinematic Thaw , New York Times, November 21, 2008
  5. ↑ The stupid major of the adapted , Weltwoche, February 12, 2009
  6. ↑ The eloquent silence. On how artists and intellectuals deal with their own Nazi past , broadcast on March 3, 2009 on Deutschlandradio Kultur
  7. ↑ More of the same. HW Henze and the NSDAP , Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 12, 2009
  8. ^ European Publishing Awards. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Audio Award: These are the nominees for the first German Podcast Award. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ INMA unveils Global Media Awards finalists. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Herwig, Malte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel