Tobias Timm

Tobias Timm (* 1975 in Munich ) is a German journalist , art market expert and non-fiction author . He became known through his work as an art and architecture critic in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Life

Tobias Timm studied urban ethnology , history and cultural studies in Berlin and New York. At the same time, he initially worked as a freelance writer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Since 2006 he has been working as an author and editor for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . His subject areas include art, the art market, crime, architecture and urban research. In 2012 he published Falsche Bilder, Echtes Geld , a book on the Beltracchi art forger scandal together with Stefan Koldehoff . In March 2020, Timm and Koldehoff published the book Art and Crimes , which draws a panorama of today's art crime from money laundering to illegal trade and fraud.

Timm lives in Berlin .

Awards

• 2012: Prix ​​Annette Giacometti (together with Stefan Koldehoff ) for False Pictures, Real Money .
• 2012: Otto Brenner Prize for Critical Journalism (together with Stefan Koldehoff) for False Pictures, Real Money (3rd Prize)

Works

as single publications

• Art and crime . (with Stefan Koldehoff ) Galiani, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86971-176-8 .
• L'Affaire Beltracchi. (with Stefan Koldehoff) Ed. J. Chambon, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2330018283
• Wrong pictures, real money . (with Stefan Koldehoff) Galiani, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86971-057-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Tobias Timm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on the website of the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house
• Proof of Tobias Timm's contributions to Die Zeit
• Short biography and reviews of works by Tobias Timm at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jens Bisky: Invisible Hands. Retrieved March 11, 2020 . 
2. ^ Profile at the magazine of the Goethe Institute
3. ↑ Profile at DIE ZEIT
4. ↑ Prix ​​Annette Giacometti for journalists Koldehoff and Timm ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2012 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. , monopol-magazin.de, accessed on June 18, 2012. 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Presentation of the publisher ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.