Willi Winkler (Author)

Willi Winkler (* 1957 in Sittenbach ) is a German journalist , translator, author and literary critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Career

Willi Winkler studied in Munich and St. Louis (USA) and translated books by John Updike , Anthony Burgess and Saul Bellow into German, among others . He was editor at Die Zeit , head of culture at Spiegel and today (as of 2012) he writes book reviews, glosses , film reviews and critical commentaries in the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in particular . Willi Winkler is a Catholic.

2007 and 2011 he laid fiction books on the far left and on the Arab - nationalist terrorism of the 1970s and 1980s before - one about the Red Army Faction and one on the businessman and terror financier François Genoud .

Book publications (selection)

• François Truffaut's films . Heyne Film Library, 1985, later editions 1992, 1996
• The Beatles. The story of their music. Together with Mark Hertsgaard , 1995.
• All of my Germans. A bestiary. Berlin 1998.
• Bob Dylan. One life. , Alexander Fest Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-8286-0077-8 .
• Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. Five lives . Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-498-07348-6 .
• Movie theater. Small philosophy of passions. DTV Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-20486-9 .
• History of the RAF. Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-510-4 .
• The shadow man. From Goebbels to Carlos: The Mysterious Life of François Genoud . Rowohlt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-87134-626-2 .
• Germany, a winter trip . Rowohlt, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87134-796-2 .
• Luther: A German rebel . Rowohlt, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-87134-723-8 .
• The brown net. How the Federal Republic was led to success by earlier Nazis. Rowohlt, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0039-7 and ISBN 3-7371-0039-X ; contents

Awards

In 1998 Willi Winkler received the Ben Witter Prize , and in 2010 the Otto Brenner “Special” Prize, which is awarded for the best analysis in an editorial, commentary or essay and is endowed with 10,000 euros.

In 2012 he was awarded the Journalist Prize of the German Anglists' Association for his literary translations by authors such as Julian Barnes , Anthony Burgess and John Updike .

In 2013 Winkler was awarded the Michael Althen Prize for his article Antichrist about the writer Karlheinz Deschner .

Web links

• Literature by and about Willi Winkler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Willi Winkler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Willi Winkler at perlentaucher.de
• Interview in Bookmarks, BR 2015 (video, 8 min)
• New Luther biography. The indulgence was a good idea.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ br-alpha: Willi Winkler in conversation with Corinna Spies (PDF; 45 kB) , February 27, 2007
2. ^ Ben Witter Prize to Willi Winkler , Zeit Online October 15, 1998
3. ↑ Otto Brenner Prize "Special" ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 25, 2012, p. 32 ( short version ).
5. ↑ Honor for Willi Winkler. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 13, 2013, accessed October 17, 2013 .