Rainer Schmidt (journalist)
Rainer Schmidt (* 1964 ) is a German journalist and writer . He works and lives in Berlin .
Life
Rainer Schmidt studied economics in Bonn , Vadodara (India) and Göttingen , then journalism at City University London . After completing his traineeship at Frankfurter Rundschau , he worked as an editor at BBC World Service (radio) in London, later at the TV news channel EBN (European Business News), which belongs to Dow Jones . At the end of 1995 he started at ZEITmagazin in Hamburg , and in 1999 for SPIEGELreporter . From 2001 to 2006 he was deputy editor-in-chief of MAX , then vice-boss at Park Avenue , then at Vanity Fair in Berlin . From the beginning of 2010 to March 2012 he was editor-in-chief of the German edition of Rolling Stone , the music magazine Musikexpress , as well as the magazine me.Style , the special fashion publication of the Musikexpress. Schmidt has also been the chief editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly (FAQ) magazine since autumn 2016 .
Works
- For how much longer. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03985-6 .
- London Calling. Narrative. In: Good resolutions, bad karma. Stories from the end of the year . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-46026-9 .
- Love dances. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04151-4 .
- Danger zone. Stories from the stomach of a restaurant (with Roland Mary). Goldmann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-31333-4 .
- The Cannabis GmbH. Novel. Rogner & Bernhard, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95403-068-2 ; Heyne, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-67697-8 .
- Legal high. Novel. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-87134-173-1 .
Others
Nico Hofmann , managing director of Ufa-Fiction, has secured the filming rights to Die Cannabis GmbH .
Schmidt is the inventor and host of the Berlin literary salon Writers' Thursday, which has existed since the beginning of 2015 . There are always six authors reading there. Guests included: Maxim Biller, Bov Bjerg, Helene Hegemann, Clemens Meyer, Sven Regener, Daniel Richter, Stefanie Sargnagel, Wolf Wondratschek and Feridun Zaimoglu.
Web links
- Website by Rainer Schmidt
- Literature by and about Rainer Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAQ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly at FAZ
- ↑ writers thursday at tagesspiegel.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schmidt, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |