Marie Schmidt (journalist)

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Marie Schmidt (* 1983 in Munich ) is a German journalist .

Career

Schmidt grew up as the daughter of two teachers in Munich and studied comparative literature as well as European ethnology and intercultural communication at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. After training at the German School of Journalism in Munich and an abandoned doctoral thesis on Ezra Pound , she worked for four years as an editor for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit in Hamburg. Since July 2018 she has been the literary editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

She was a member of the juries of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize of the City of Braunschweig 2017, the Lessing Prize of the City of Hamburg 2017 and the Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz Prize of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing 2019.

The jury of the Alfred Kerr Prize found that Schmidt would write about literature as a “reflective and intelligent contemporary”. Their reviews are "both surprising and enriching", freehand they put "non-fiction books next to literature, encounters next to readings", "allow current and historical data and developments to flow into their considerations."

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nicola Barddola: Literature in life. In: Börsenblatt . February 21, 2019.
  2. ^ Author page Marie Schmidt. In: The time .
  3. ↑ Marc Bartl: Marie Schmidt finds a new home in the features section of the "SZ" - Felix Stephan is already there. In: Kress pro . 4th July 2018.
  4. ↑ The Prize Winner 2019. In: Alfred Kerr Prize . February 2019.
  5. ↑ Editor of the "Süddeutsche" is honored for her literary criticism. In: Tagesspiegel . February 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ From Ronan Farrow to Spiegel - these are the winners. In: Spiegel Online . 4th December 2018.
  7. ↑ Marie Schmidt: Are we threatened by language censorship? No! In: The time . No. 23/2018, May 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich