Martin Simons

Martin Simons (born October 21, 1973 in Lünen ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Martin Simons grew up in Selm , attended the Canisianum grammar school in Lüdinghausen from 1984 to 1993 and studied law and philosophy in Berlin, Graz and Paris. He worked as a lawyer, journalist and was a speechwriter for the former Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse .

In 2009 he published the essay On the Magic of the Private .

His debut novel, Die Freiheit am Morgen , was published in 2013. In this novel, he processed his own experience as a lawyer and as deputy head of the short-lived magazine project Liebling .

Martin Simons lives as an author and entrepreneur (co-founder and one of the managing directors of FineFoodCircle) in Berlin .

Works

Original editions

• The magic of the private . Campus, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38853-3 .
• The freedom in the morning . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40442-5 .
• Not yet, but eventually . Structure, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-351-03788-8

Editing

• Paul Nizon : The Siege of the World - Novel Years . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42386-8
• Paul Nizon : Parisiana . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-001-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Simons in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publisher information on the author and work at Hoffmann and Campe
• Interview with Martin Simons "Vom Zauber des Privaten" audio on domradio.de
• Martin Simons reads from Die Freiheit am Morgen video on zeit.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liebling founder drives to wuv.de with Automagazin
2. ↑ finefoodcircle.de ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 25, 2015