Martin Lüdke

Martin Lüdke (born April 9, 1943 in Apolda / Thuringia ) is a German literary scholar and literary critic .

Life

After graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Frankfurt , he first took up a commercial apprenticeship in a freight forwarding company , which he broke off to study philosophy, sociology, German and politics at the Goethe University . There he received his doctorate on "The difference between the beautiful in art and the beautiful in nature in Kant, Hegel and Adorno".

From 1976 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the Social Science Institute of the Bundeswehr (SOWI) in Munich. Until 1984 he held the chair for Modern German Literature at the University of Frankfurt , before he worked as literary editor for television at the Hessischer Rundfunk from 1985 to 1990.

During this time, he was visiting professor at several American universities (Los Angeles, San Diego, St. Louis). Since 2003, he has been a regular courtesy professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville .

In 1990 he switched from hr to Südwestfunk , later known as Südwestrundfunk , and initially headed the editorial team for the “ SWR Best List ”, and later for 16 years the series “Literatur im Foyer” in Mainz, which is also broadcast on 3sat . Until 1998 he was co-editor of the Rowohlt literary magazine.

Lüdke regularly took part in the “Streitfall” series, where he discussed newly published non-fiction books with hr2 editor Peter Kemper , Ulrike Ackermann and Jochen Hörisch in the Frankfurt Literaturhaus ( Franziska Augstein and Micha Brumlik were also participants in the discussion until September 2012 ).

Martin Lüdke was and is a juror for several literary prizes, including the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the 2009 German Book Prize . He mainly writes for Die Zeit , Spiegel and Frankfurter Rundschau as well as for the magazines Literaturen and Focus , more recently also for the Frankfurt online magazine Faust Kultur, where he has been keeping “Lüdke's liederliche Liste” since 2016, in which he “new and also processed some old books ”that have accumulated over the years on his“ full shelves, in stacks ”. He has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1994 .

Lüdke lives in Frankfurt am Main . He is married and he is an "avid jogger ".

literature

• Martin Walser: The administration of the illusion . In: Alexander Wasner (Ed.): I'd rather it. Television as a literary institution . Wallstein Publishing House. Goettingen. 2008. ISBN 978-3-8353-0279-2 . Pages 32–38. Reprinted under the title: The Administration of Illusion. Always on the move: Martin Lüdke on his 65th birthday . In: Frankfurter Rundschau. April 9, 2008. City edition. Page 31.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Lüdke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Martin Lüdke  in the German Digital Library
• Martin Lüdke at Faust Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cornelia von Wrangel: Frankfurt faces: Martin Lüdke , FAZ, June 10, 2006.
2. ↑ Biography in the studium generale of the University of Mainz. Status: 2005.
3. ↑ Börsenverein: The Judges 2009: German Book Prize  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
4. ↑ SWR: About us: Literature in the foyer . Status: November 3, 2008. URL: http://www.swr.de/literatur-im-foyer/ueberuns/-/id=3218596/kvwvi9/index.html (offline on May 4, 2014).
5. ↑ The last broadcast was on October 14, 2008 at the beginning of the Frankfurt Book Fair : Lüdke says goodbye to “Literature in the Foyer” . In: Rhein-Zeitung. October 8, 2008 (retrieved from Genios on May 4, 2014).
6. ↑ Südwestrundfunk: They all like to come. Martin Lüdke says goodbye to “Literature in the Foyer” / An extra for the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 14 on SWR television . Press release. In: news aktuell October 13, 2008 (accessed in Genios on May 4, 2014).
7. ^ Lüdke's dissolute list. In: Faust culture. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .