Uwe Wittstock

Uwe Wittstock (born June 5, 1955 in Leipzig ) is a German literary critic, editor and author .

Wittstock began his activity as a journalist at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , where he worked in the literary department from 1980 to 1989. From 1989 to 1999 Wittstock was senior lecturer for contemporary German literature at S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt . During this period he was also co-editor of the literary magazine Neue Rundschau . In 2000 he was initially deputy head of the features section of the daily newspaper Die Welt , and since 2002 he has been its cultural correspondent in Frankfurt am Main . From October 1, 2010 until the end of 2017, Wittstock was head of literature for Focus magazine .

In 1989 he was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize for Journalism. In 2006, as the sole representative of the Kleist Society, he awarded the Kleist Prize to Daniel Kehlmann .

Works

• Franz Fuehmann . A monograph. CH Beck, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-406-33157-2 .
• Reading pleasure. How entertaining is the new German literature? Luchterhand, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-630-87981-0 .
• The family planet. Parents. Children. Disasters. CH Beck, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-406-52294-7 .
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki . Story of a life. Blessing Verlag, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-89667-274-6 .
• The book drunkards. Forays into the literature business. zu Klampen, Springe 2007. ISBN 978-3-86674-005-1 .
• According to modernity. Essay on contemporary German literature in twelve chapters by eleven authors. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0561-8 .
• The Esra case. A novel in court. About the new frontiers of literary freedom. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-462-60008-7 .
• Karl Marx at the barber's. Life and last journey of a German revolutionary. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2018. ISBN 978-3-89667-612-2

as editor

• Postmodernism in German literature. Relaxation exercises from 50 years . Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1602-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Uwe Wittstock in the catalog of the German National Library