Sigrid Löffler

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Sigrid Löffler at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018
Sigrid Löffler (2009)

Sigrid Löffler (born June 26, 1942 in Aussig , Sudetenland ) is an Austrian journalist , cultural correspondent and literary critic .

Life

Sigrid Löffler grew up in Vienna and studied at the University of English Studies , German Studies , Philosophy and Pedagogy with the conclusion Magister . From 1968 to 1972, after working as a German teacher, she was the political editor of the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse .

From 1972 to 1993 she was part of the editorial team of the news magazine profil , where she was most recently head of the cultural department and deputy editor-in-chief. As a culture correspondent, she worked for various newspapers (e.g. Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Die Woche ), magazines and broadcasters. From 1996 to 1999 she was the arts editor of the time .

In the period from 1988 to 2000 Sigrid Löffler constant participant of the cultural program was The Literary Quartet of ZDF , who because of a dispute with Marcel Reich-Ranicki left, the book is a discussion of the South of the Border, West of the Sun of the Japanese Haruki Murakami had triggered. After leaving the show in August 2000, Sigrid Löffler became the editor of the Literaturen magazine . In September 2008 Löffler gave up this position after differences in content about the orientation of the literary magazine.

She was heavily criticized for her work on the jury for the founder Alfred C. Toepfer when, in 1991 - together with her co-juror Gertrud Fussenegger - she stood up for the awarding of the German Grillparzer Prize to Peter Handke . Löffler is also a member of the jury of the Leipzig Book Fair Literature Prize and was a member of the Heinrich Heine Prize jury . At the planned Heine award ceremony for Peter Handke, Löffler announced her resignation from the jury on June 2, 2006 on the occasion of the controversy that had arisen. In doing so, she expressed her protest against those jurors who, in her opinion, had "circulated" unfounded as well as defamatory claims about the winner ". About Martin Mosebach , Löffler said in 2007 on the occasion of the awarding of the Georg Büchner Prize to the writer that, as a “reactionary”, he was unworthy of this highest literary award in German-speaking countries. and the artistic director of the Vienna State Opera, Ioan Holender, referred to her as a "run up Romanian" when he took up the job .

Regarding her professional career as a teacher, which she originally started, Sigrid Löffler said in an interview with the program Eins zu Eins - Der Talk on the radio station Bayern 2 in December 2013: "I think I would have been a very bad teacher too. I got it I did another probationary year and saw that I actually had no talent for it, and that it actually horrified me, the mere idea that I should maybe now teach English for 40 years and always one generation after the other that Saxon should teach genitive . I wasn't really interested at all. First and foremost, I wanted to advance myself and learn something myself and not teach others something. "

Löffler is a juror for the SWR best list and a columnist at the radio station Bremen Zwei from Radio Bremen .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Reviews, portraits, glosses , Deuticke, Vienna 1995
  • Printed video clips. On the influence of television on newspaper culture , Picus, Vienna 1997
  • Literatures. The journal for books and topics , Friedrich Berlin Verlag, monthly since October 2000
  • Instructions for use for Austria , Piper, Munich, autumn 2001
  • The new world literature and its great storytellers , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-406-65351-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Literatures" publishing house Sigrid Löffler criticizes tabloidization ( memento of October 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 22, 2013
  2. ↑ Grillparzer Prize , accessed on September 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Christian Michelides : Baroness Munchhausen . To Sigrid Löffler and Alfred C. Toepfer. In: FORVM 456, 59-63
  4. ↑ “Handke and no end. Why we are stepping down from the jury of the Heinrich Heine Prize ” , explanation of the stepping out from the jury of the Heinrich Heine Prize in the Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 126 of June 2, 2006
  5. ^ Löffler about Martin Mosebach
  6. ↑ http://www.omm.de/feuilleton/interview-ioan-holender.html
  7. ↑ One to one - the talk: Sigrid Löffler, literary critic . Radio broadcast with presenter Norbert Joa , December 2013, 46 min. (Quote from minute 24:56). A broadcast from Bayern 2 , Munich
personal data
SURNAME Löffler, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, cultural correspondent, literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Aussig on the Elbe, today Ústí nad Labem , Czech Republic