Thomas E. Schmidt

Thomas E. Schmidt (* 1959 ) is a German journalist and editor in the features section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Life

Schmidt studied philosophy, German, linguistics and art history at the universities of Munich, Hamburg and Florence. With a thesis on the early romantic novel, he received his doctorate. phil. He worked in the culture department of ZDF in Mainz and was literary editor of the Frankfurter Rundschau . On March 1, 1999, he became head of the feature pages of the newspaper Die Welt and, since 1999, cultural correspondent for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit in Berlin. He is close to the Seeheimer Kreis of the SPD and helped Frank-Walter Steinmeier in 2009 to write his book "Mein Deutschland".

Publications (selection)

• Difficult farewell to the consensus , in: Ludger Heidbrink and Harald Welzer (eds.): The end of modesty . Beck 2007, ISBN 978-3406559549 .
• Cutting through the federal jungle. Review of the cultural policy of the Schröder government , in: Hilmar Hoffmann / Wolfgang Schneider (eds.), Cultural Policy in the Berlin Republic . Cologne 2002. 29ff.
• What is the CDU's concept of a people 's party ? , in: Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte 47 (2000) 432–434.
• Six theses on German theater , in: Peter Iden (ed.), Why we need the theater. Suhrkamp TB 1995, ISBN 978-3518389836 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas E. Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article by Thomas E. Schmidt for Die Zeit
• Thomas E. Schmidt on the single page of the sociologist Bernd Kittlaus

Footnotes

1. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/autoren/S/Thomas_E_Schmidt/index.xml
2. ↑ chbeck.de ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.