Peter Richter (writer)

Peter Richter during the Leipzig Book Fair (2011)

Peter Richter (born July 8, 1973 in Dresden ) is a German writer and publicist who mainly writes about architecture, art and design.

Life

Peter Richter was born in Dresden and grew up in the Loschwitz district . He attended evening classes at the College of Fine Arts and passed his Abitur at the Kreuzschule in 1992 . After a few weeks, he broke off training as an offset printer to work and study as a journalist. He completed his studies of art history in Hamburg and Madrid in 1998 with a master's thesis on Spanish baroque painting . He did his doctorate in 2006 at the University of Hamburg with the topic The prefabricated building as a crisis area under Martin Warnke . In the meantime, he had completed a journalistic traineeship at Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio , worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and finally joined the features section of the FAZ . Until the end of 2011 he was in charge of the arts and architecture in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . In addition, he moderated the magazine "Galerie" on Deutschlandradio for five years, he also wrote a column for the art magazine Monopol ("Richter Scale") and published several non-fiction books on the border with fiction and a novel on the border with non-fiction. His essay “Blooming Landscapes” from 2004 had the same name as a column he wrote for the FAS between 2003 and 2007, but had little to do with it in terms of content. From April 2009 to the end of March 2010, he published a weekly video column called "Judgment" on the FAZ website. The current new video column is called "Richter Scale". Since September 17, 2009 he has appeared on the late-night show " Harald Schmidt ". From summer 2012 to 2017 Peter Richter reported from New York as a cultural correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Since then he has been reporting from Berlin.

Works

• Berlin speaks here , with Georg Diez , Nils Minkmar , Claudius Seidl and Anne Zielke . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-462-03342-5 .
• Blooming landscapes . Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-31075-X .
• German house . Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-30111-4 .
• Look at this city , with Georg Diez, Nils Minkmar, Claudius Seidl and Anne Zielke. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03790-6 .
• Gran Via: Spanish Incidents . Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-442-31148-9 .
• About drinking . Goldmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-31202-3 .
• 89/90 . Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87462-3 .
• Dresden Revisited, From a home that won't let you go . Luchterhand Literaturverlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-630-87525-5 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Richter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Peter Richter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Peter Richter at perlentaucher.de
• Peter Richter’s website
• Judge's verdict - video column by Peter Richter on FAZ.NET

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vita Peter Richter at the Bertelsmann speaker agency. (Retrieved March 30, 2010.)
2. ↑ Peter Richter: Painted Truth: Naturalism in Spanish painting of the 17th century as a problem of research . Art history seminar at the University of Hamburg, 1998. Reference in: Kunstchronik - Hochschulnachrichten 1999 , Central Institute for Art History Munich.
3. ↑ Peter Richter: Dissertation: The prefabricated building as a crisis area [electronic resource]: the architectural and political transformation of industrially constructed residential buildings from the GDR using the example of the city of Leinefelde , ( PDF; 28 MB )
4. ↑ Peter Richter with Harald Schmidt ( Memento from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ meedia.de: Peter Richter leaves FAS ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2012 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. , November 26, 2011 (accessed April 7, 2014) 
6. ↑ randomhouse.de: randomhouse.de: Peter Richter , (accessed on February 18, 2019)