Nils Minkmar

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Nils Minkmar at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Nils Minkmar (born November 12, 1966 in Saarbrücken ) is a German historian , journalist and publicist .

Live and act

Nils Minkmar at the SPD party conference 2017

Minkmar grew up in Dudweiler as the son of a German and a French woman. He studied New History at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, where he was involved in the Juso University Group and was chairman of the AStA for two semesters . He attended Pierre Bourdieu's doctoral seminar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In 1996 he received his doctorate with Richard van Dülmen at the Saarland University with a thesis on conflicts of honor in early modern Colmar.

1997 Minkmar editor of the ZDF telecast Willemsens week in Hamburg. After the program was discontinued, he worked as a freelance journalist for Süddeutsche Zeitung , Geo and Merian . From 1999 to 2001 he was editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . In July 2001 he became an editor in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . At the beginning of 2012 he succeeded Patrick Bahners as head of the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ ). On November 1, 2014, Minkmar became the FAZ's European cultural correspondent . His successor in the management of the feature pages was Edo Reents . He has been writing for Spiegel since May 1, 2015 .

Minkmar has German and French citizenship .

Reception and honors

Minkmar is regarded in the editorial team as an analyst and generalist , "who feels at home in many topics, observes phenomena and reflects with his often clever thoughts" and who writes "about Islamism as well as domestic politics, about Jodie Foster as well as Helge Schneider" .

In 2012, Minkmar was voted culture editor of the year by a jury from the journalism magazine Medium Magazin . In 2012 and 2013 he was a member of the jury for the Henri Nannen Prize .

In 2016 Minkmar was awarded the Ben Witter Prize and honored as a “life-wise observer of our little world who has kept his clear view and gentle mockery”.

Fonts

Books

Articles (selection)

  • About killing precious time. The use of the cinema in an industrial region (1900-1914) . In: Historische Anthropologie 1 (1993), pp. 431-450.
  • Film frenzy on the Saar. Life with the cinema between the end of the war and television . In: Saarbrücker Hefte 71/72 (1994), pp. 103-110.
  • Documented love. The unhappy relationship between an imperial knight and a goldsmith's daughter in Colmar in the 16th century. In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Unequal couples. On the cultural history of human relationships . Munich 1997, pp. 33-55.
  • In the contemporary history of media politics. The odyssey of the ZDF director election . In: Jahrbuch Fernsehen 2002. Marl 2002, pp. 41–50 (about the conflict-ridden election of Markus Schächter as the successor to long-time ZDF director Dieter Stolte ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Nils Minkmar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Pfohlmann: Nils Minimars Essays: Sticks well . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of May 10, 2009
  2. ↑ Nils Minkmar: Words poured out : Urban bourgeois concept of honor, conflicts of honor and habitus in Colmar in the 16th century from a historical-anthropological perspective . Saarbrücken 1996.
  3. ^ Short biography of Nils Minkmar. Correspondent (mink) ( Memento of May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: faz.net , accessed on February 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ FAZ , October 31, 2014, p. 11.
  5. ↑ @nminkmar: "I'm doing something new and will be writing for Spiegel from May. I quit the FAZ." . In: twitter.com , accessed February 16, 2015.
  6. ↑ FAZ , December 31, 2011, p. 31.
  7. ↑ Johannes Kloth: Back to the "zero point of harmlessness" . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , July 18, 2009.
  8. ↑ Review in: Der Spiegel 34/2003.
personal data
SURNAME Minkmar, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken