Peter Walther

Peter Walther (2019)

Peter Walther (born December 27, 1965 in Berlin ) is a German philologist and literary historian .

Life

Walther studied German and arts education at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald , the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Duisburg-Essen and was born in Berlin in 1995 with the dissertation Der Totentanz in St. Marien zu Berlin. Image and text about Dr. phil. PhD. From 1990 to 2000 he wrote regularly for the culture page of the Berlin newspaper "tageszeitung". Together with Hendrik Röder, he heads the office of the Brandenburg Literature Office in Potsdam. Walther is co-founder of the literature portal literaturport (together with Ulrich Janetzki ), which offers information on various aspects of literary history and literary present in Berlin and Brandenburg . Together with Peter Böthig , he set up the Zeitstimmen portal with information on literature and everyday history on over 2,000 locations in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Walther published on writers such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Günter Eich , Peter Huchel and Thomas Mann as well as on the history of photography, especially on the history of early color photography. In addition, from 1996 to 1998 he was co-editor of the now closed literary magazine Moosbrand. New texts (together with Birgit Dahlke, Klaus Michael and Lutz Seiler ).

Fonts (selection)

The Berlin Dance of Death to St. Mary . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931836-17-7 .
as editor: Peter Huchel . Life and work. (= Insel Taschenbuch 1805). with contributions by Wolf Biermann , Durs Grünbein , Michael Hamburger , Walter Jens , Reiner Kunze , Hans Mayer and Marcel Reich-Ranicki . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-458-33505-6 . (Parallel edition as exhibition volume with CD)
as publisher: Märkische Dichterlandschaft. An illustrated literary guide through the Mark Brandenburg. with contributions by Günter de Bruyn , Adolf Endler , Sarah Kirsch , Christian Graf von Krockow and Günter Kunert . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-421-05165-8 .
as editor: Günter Eich (1907–1972). After the end of the biography . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-40-1 . (with CD)
with Jürgen Israel (Ed.): Muses and Graces in the Mark. 750 years of literature in Brandenburg . Volume 1: A Reader . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-68-1 .
as editor: Muses and Graces in the Mark. 750 years of literature in Brandenburg . Volume 2: A historical dictionary of writers . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-69-X .
with Lutz Seiler (Ed.): Peter Huchel . (= Text and criticism, issue 157). Edition Text and Criticism, München 2003, ISBN 3-88377-727-7 .
as editor: The Third Front. Literature in Brandenburg 1930–1950 . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936872-25-2 .
as publisher: Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. A Fontane district with historical color photographs by Rudolf Hacke . Volume 1, vacat, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 3-930752-28-X .
as publisher: Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. A Fontane breviary with historical color photographs by Rudolf Hacke , Volume 2, vacat, Potsdam 2005, ISBN 3-930752-30-1 .
as publisher: Thomas Mann , Lübeck as a spiritual way of life, with historical color photographs by Julius Hollos , vacat, Potsdam 2005, ISBN 3-930752-39-5 .
as publisher: Literaturland Brandenburg. A guide to the country's literary memorials. vacat, Potsdam 2005, ISBN 3-930752-40-9 .
as publisher: Goethe and the Mark Brandenburg . vacat Verlag, Potsdam 2006, ISBN 3-930752-43-3 .
as editors: Goethe and Zelter . A friendship in letters. Read by Christian Brückner and Otto Sander , audio CD. vacat, Potsdam 2006, ISBN 3-930752-44-1 .
as publisher: Germany in early color photographs (DVD). Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89853-619-6 .
as publisher: Endzeit Europa. A collective diary of German-speaking writers, artists and scholars during the First World War . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0347-8 .
as publisher: Germany in early color photographs. Komet Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89836-918-3 .
with Peter Böthig (Ed.): The Russians are there. Everyday life in the war and a new beginning in 1945 in diaries from Brandenburg . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-079-5 .
as Ed .: Childhood Pictures. Everyday photography in Brandenburg since 1848 . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86732-149-5 .
as publisher: The First World War in color. (parallel German / English / French) Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8365-5417-6 .
as editor: New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943 (Dt./Engl./Frz., Parallel Span./Ital./Portug.) Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8365-3711-7 .
Hans Fallada. The biography. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-03669-0 .
as editor: Hans Fallada. Young love between rubble. With unpublished stories. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2018 , ISBN 978-3-351-03709-3 .
as editor: Lewis Wickes Hine . America at Work (Dt./Engl./Frz.), Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-8365-7234-7 .
as publisher: Obnoxious and charming at the same time: Die Brandenburger, vacat, Potsdam 2019 ISBN 978-3-9307-5256-0 .
Fever. Universum Berlin 1930-1933, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-351-03479-5 .

Awards

2008: Grimme Online Award for literaturport
2018: Annalize Wagner Prize for "Hans Fallada. The Biography"

Exhibitions

Peter Huchel. Life and Work, Potsdam 1995.
Günter Eich. After the end of the biography, Potsdam 2000.
Muses and Graces in the marrow. 750 years of literary history, Potsdam 2002.
The third front. Literature in Brandenburg 1930–1950, Potsdam 2004.
Goethe and the Mark Brandenburg, Potsdam 2006.
End times Europe. Diaries and letters of German-speaking writers 1914–1918, Potsdam 2008.
Childhood images. Everyday photography in Brandenburg since 1848, Potsdam 2013.
In the intermediate realm. The literary new beginning in Potsdam 1945–1950, Potsdam 2015.
History of the craft in Brandenburg. Photography from 1890 to 2000, Potsdam 2016.
Obnoxious and charming at the same time: Die Brandenburger, Rheinsberg 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Search result: Article by Peter Walther. In: taz archive. TAZ Verlag, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
^ The Brandenburg Literature Office , Brandenburg Literature Office, accessed on March 14, 2014.
↑ Timing. Portal for literary and everyday history in Berlin-Brandenburg
↑ Annalize Wagner Foundation , accessed on October 1, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Walther, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist, editor and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Search result: Article by Peter Walther. In: taz archive. TAZ Verlag, accessed on October 23, 2019 .

[2] The Brandenburg Literature Office , Brandenburg Literature Office, accessed on March 14, 2014.

[3] Timing. Portal for literary and everyday history in Berlin-Brandenburg

[4] Annalize Wagner Foundation , accessed on October 1, 2018.