Andreas Platthaus

Andreas Platthaus (2009)

Andreas Platthaus (born February 15, 1966 in Aachen ) is a German journalist , comic book expert and author. Since February 2016 he has been head of the literature and literary life section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Life

After a bank apprenticeship in Cologne , Andreas Platthaus, son of the doctoral engineer Hans-Lutz Platthaus, studied business administration in Aachen , then in the early 1990s rhetoric , philosophy and history at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . That he in Tübingen with rüdiger bubner , Manfred Frank , Otfried Hoffe or Günter Figal "original an unusually large ensemble and independent thinker as a teacher had" , it was "clear only after graduation" .

Platthaus published biographies on Alfred Herrhausen (2006) and Walt Disney (2001). He has also dealt intensively with the art of comics ; this is what he wrote before he became the features editor of the FAZ in 1997, for the comic magazine RRAAH! . He has also been Honorary President since 1995 and since 2007 honorary member of the Comics Insider Association DONALD and since 2010 also a member of the jury for the caricature award of the German legal profession . In 2013 he was appointed as a juror for the German Book Prize . In 2018 Platthaus was awarded a Hessian Culture Prize.

He works as an editor and for years as the deputy feature editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Since February 2016 he has been head of the literature and literary life department .

In 2009 his first novel, Free Play, was published .

Fonts (selection)

Andreas Platthaus (2014)

• United in the comic. A story of picture history . Fest Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8286-0064-6 .
• The world of Walt Disney. From Mann & Maus . Henschel Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-89487-402-3 .
• Alfred Herrhausen. A German career . Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-87134-532-6 .
• The 101 Most Important Questions - Comics and Mangas. Beck Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57361-3 .
• Free spin. Novel. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-664-4 .
• The picture cycle by Volker Reiche : Friendly Fire. Essay. B3 Verlag Edition Faust, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-938783-74-0 .
• 1813: The Battle of Nations and the end of the old world. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-749-8 .
• That catches the eye. Stories of caricature. The Other Library , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8477-0381-5 .
• 18/19: The war after the war. Germany between revolution and Versailles. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-87134-786-3 .
• On the palisades. American diary. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-7371-0095-3 .

as editor

• Wilhelm Busch : The cake batter . With an essay by the publisher Insel Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-19325-8 ( Insel-Bücherei 1325).
• Thomas Bernhard (text), Nicolas Mahler (drawings): Old Masters, Comedy . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-46293-5 .
• Marcel Beyer (text), Ulli Lust (drawings): Flying foxes: Graphic Novel . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-46426-7 .

collaboration

• with Kat Menschik : The variable calendar: 366 days. A perpetual calendar with events from world history. DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9690-5 .
• with rosalie (artist), Peter Weibel (editor): rosalie: LightScapes . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3746-3 .
• with Riad Sattouf: The Arab of Tomorrow: A Childhood in the Middle East (1978–1984), graphic novel . Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8135-0666-2 .

Web links

• “Introducing the editorial team” , 2006, short portrait on the FAZ website
• "For me it is of course my heart and soul" , 2006, interview with Andreas Platthaus (FAZ) about the "classics of comic literature"
• “Classic of comic literature” , 2005, interview with Andreas Platthaus
• Literature by and about Andreas Platthaus in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice in FAZ, September 25, 2018, p. 12.
2. ^ Andreas Platthaus. Retrieved June 17, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Andreas Platthaus: For transforming and transforming. Günter Figal on his 60th birthday . In: FAZ of July 13, 2009, p. 30.
4. ↑ News from the editorial team . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 11, 2017, p. 2.