Uwe Schmitt (journalist)
Uwe Schmitt (* 14. December 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist and former drummer of the Creative Jazz .
Life
From 1965 on, Schmitt received training as a concert drummer at the Hoch Conservatory . After completing the traditional Lessing grammar school and civil service, he studied English and politics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt from 1975 . During his studies he formed a duo with Alfred Harth , which was then expanded to include Buschi Niebergall when his trio appeared. Then he worked with Michel Pilz and Buschi Niebergall in a trio. He was also involved in jazz and poetry projects by Wilhelm E. Liefland and worked as a theater musician. At the Rock Against Right Festival in 1979 he performed with the so -called Left Radical Wind Orchestra . For a season he worked as an actor in cabaret . At the beginning of the 1980s he was active in Alfred Harth's gestalt et jive .
Since 1981 journalism has moved to the center of his activity. During an internship with the Associated Press , he wrote music reviews, portraits and background reports. He published in the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Spiegel and specialist magazines; he also moderated radio programs. At the end of 1982 he became an employee of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and had worked there as an editor in the features section since 1985 . Between 1990 and 1997 he worked as a correspondent for the newspaper for East Asia in Tokyo , and in the spring of 1997 he became its feature section correspondent in Berlin. In March 1999, he moved to Welt , where he worked in Washington, DC as the political correspondent for North America. After his return in the summer of 2014, he worked as a reporter and editor for the world ; from January 2018 as a freelance author.
Prizes and awards
Schmitt is the recipient of the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize 1987. In 1995 he was awarded the Joseph Roth Prize for International Journalism . He received the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1997 for his consideration Who comes out of amazement. In 2014 he was the recipient of the George F. Kennan Commentary Prize .
Fonts
- Sunquake. 50 improvisations about Japan. Edition Peperkorn, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-929181-17-7 .
- Tokyo tango. A Japanese adventure. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-4171-0 , The Other Library series .
- Moon tears, office heroes and kitchen rumors. Japanese contradictions. Picus, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85452-733-0 .
- Eight German summers. Wolfgang Büscher, Christine Kensche, Uwe Schmitt. Rowohlt, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-87134-835-8 .
Discographic notes
- Pilz / Niebergall / Schmitt: Celeste. 1977
- gestalt et jive: nouvelle cuisine. 1985 (with Alfred Harth, Steve Beresford , Anton Fier , Ferdinand Richard )
Web links
- Uwe Schmitt with the pearl diver
Individual evidence
- ↑ The George F. Kennan Commentary Prize. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitt, Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |