Tilman Krause

Tilman Krause (born July 19, 1959 in Kiel ) is a German literary critic and senior features editor of the daily newspaper Die Welt . He lives in Berlin.

Life

From 1978 onwards, Tilman Krause first studied German , history and Romance studies in Tübingen . In 1980 he worked as a German teacher at the Paris Lycée Henri IV for a year in Paris. In 1981 he continued his studies at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate there in 1991 with a thesis on the publicist Friedrich Sieburg .

Stations in his journalistic career were initially the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1990–1994) and Der Tagesspiegel (1994–1998). In 1994 he was one of the authors of the anthology The Self-Confident Nation . In 1998 Krause came to the daily newspaper Die Welt as senior literary editor , where he played a key role in the conception and development of the newly published literary supplement Die Literäre Welt , and where he worked as senior literary editor for fifteen years. His weekly column Krauses Klartext appeared without interruption for seven years. He has been writing the Urban Legends column since the beginning of 2015 .

Krause mainly deals with contemporary German and French literature. Another focus is the cultural and literary history of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Krause also works as a moderator, was and is active in numerous literary prize juries, held teaching positions at the universities of Berlin and Hildesheim and held a visiting professorship at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig .

In addition to essays and treatises in various anthologies, Krause has edited and commented on a number of newly published works of world literature, including Eduard von Keyserling's tales In the quiet corner and Charles Baudelaire's essays Wine and Hashish .

Fonts

• With France against the German special consciousness. Friedrich Sieburg's ways and changes in this century. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-05-002385-6 .
• Rudolf Thietz: A Prussian comes to Württemberg. The memoirs of the last prince educator in the Kingdom of Württemberg , edited by Tilman Krause. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-019863-0 .
• Hertha Koenig: Emilie Reinbeck, novel about Swabian romanticism , edited by Tilman Krause. Bielefeld: Pendragon Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-934872-16-5 .

Web links

• Stefan Andres: Germanists at Work , Interview with Tilman Krause, in: Critical Edition , October 24, 2007