Michael Quasthoff
Michael Quasthoff (born December 9, 1957 in Hildesheim ; † November 5, 2010 ) was a German journalist .
Life
Quasthoff studied German in Hanover and then completed a traineeship at the Neue Presse . He later took over the chief editor of the city magazine Prinz and in the late 1990s became press spokesman for the Sprengel Museum Hannover . In the last years of his life he was editor of the Hanover regional office of the daily newspaper taz , for which he was also the permanent author of the satirical page “The Truth”.
From 1993 until his death from cancer in 2010, he and Dietrich zur Nedden were the head of the literary-satirical stage show Fitz-Oblong-Show in Hanover.
The bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff is the younger brother of Michael Quasthoff.
Fonts
- with Thomas Quasthoff : The Voice. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2004, 336 pages, ISBN 3-550-07590-1 , autobiography by Thomas Quasthoff
- with Dietrich zur Nedden: Whistle! On the essence of the arbitrator , Zu Klampen, Springe 2006, ISBN 3-934920-84-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Quasthoff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fitz Oblong Show website
- Kay Sokolowsky , Dietrich zur Nedden: Des mockery friend. Obituary for the death of the truth author Michael Quasthoff . In: the daily newspaper of November 11, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituaries. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 20, 2010, p. 25.
- ↑ Ernst Corinth : The Insidious. Michael Quasthoff died at the age of 52 . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 8, 2010, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quasthoff, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 2010 |