Sebastian Kleinschmidt

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Sebastian Kleinschmidt (born May 16, 1948 in Schwerin ) is a German editor and publicist .

Life

Sebastian Kleinschmidt was born as the son of the pastor and preacher at the Schwerin Cathedral , Karl Kleinschmidt . He graduated from high school in 1966 and at the same time completed vocational training as an electrical signal fitter at the Deutsche Reichsbahn. He then served four years as a radio operator in the People's Navy . In 1968 he joined the SED . From 1970 to 1972 he studied history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , then until 1974 philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He then completed a research course in aesthetics until 1978 , which he completed with a doctorate . From 1974 to 1977, Kleinschmidt belonged to a conspiratorial opposition circle with Wolfgang Templin and Klaus Wolfram, which was dissolved by the Ministry for State Security .

From 1978 to 1983 he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for the History of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , from 1984 to 1993 research assistant at the East Berlin Academy of the Arts , from 1993 to 2013 at the United Berlin Academy of the Arts.

Kleinschmidt joined the editorial team of the cultural magazine Sinn und Form in 1984 . In 1988 he became deputy editor-in-chief and in 1991 took over the management of the magazine, which he held until 2013. In 1993 he became a member of the PEN Center Germany .

In February 2008, Kleinschmidt had a series of conversations with Daniel Kehlmann in Berlin , which was published in print under the title Requiem for a Dog .

His son Philipp Lengsfeld was born in 1972 from his later divorced marriage to Vera Lengsfeld .

Works

Fonts

Editions

  • Walter Benjamin, Allegories of Cultural Experience, Selected Writings 1920–1940, Reclam-Verlag , Leipzig 1984
  • Georg Lukács, On Reason in Culture, Selected Writings 1909–1969, Reclam-Verlag , Leipzig 1985
  • Walter Benjamin, Beroliniana, Union Verlag , Berlin 1987
  • Sense and form . Contributions to the literature. Published by the Academy of Arts. Years 1991–2012 and 2013 (issues 1–4)
  • I think of Germany ... voices of alienation, S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1993 (with Wolfgang Balk)
  • Voice and mirror. Five decades of meaning and form. A selection, Aufbau Verlag , Berlin 1998
  • Brecht's belief. Criticism of religion, piety in science, political theology. Brecht Dialog 2002, Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2002 (with Therese Hörnigk)
  • Friedrich Dieckmann, Freedom a moment. Texts from four decades, Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2002 (with Therese Hörnigk)
  • Brecht and the sport. Brecht Dialog 2005, Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2006 (with Therese Hörnigk)
  • The future of those born after. The need to think beyond the present. Brecht Days 2007, Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2007 (with Therese Hörnigk)
  • The face of the earth. Brecht's Aesthetics of Nature. Brecht Days 2008, Verlag Theater der Zeit , Berlin 2008
  • Botho Strauss, alone with everyone. Thought book, Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2014
  • Dieter Janz, minor matters. Views of a Doctor, Matthes & Seitz , Berlin 2017 (with Matthias Weichelt)
  • Hanns Cibulka, Sea Buckthorn Season. Diary sheets from Hiddensee, Matthes & Seitz , Berlin 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexander Cammann: Sebastian Kleinschmidt. The pilot disembarks. In: Zeit Online. August 16, 2013. Retrieved August 25, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Sebastian Kleinschmidt. Publisher Theater der Zeit, accessed on August 25, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Lothar Müller: The sea, the book, the house. 65 years of Sinn und Form - and the editor-in-chief is honored. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 195 of 24./25. August 2013, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Dieckmann : "Island in very different seas". Sebastian Kleinschmidt and sense and form . In: Sinn und Form 2/2014, pp. 265–272
personal data
SURNAME Kleinschmidt, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin