Harald Martenstein

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Harald Martenstein.

Harald Martenstein (born 9 September 1953, in Mainz) is a German journalist and author.

Biography[]

Martenstein studied History and Romance Studies in Freiburg. From 1981 to 1988, he was a journalist at the Stuttgarter Zeitung and from 1988 to 1997 he was a journalist at Tagesspiegel in Berlin. Then, Martenstein took up for a short time the line of the culture editorship at the Abendzeitung (AZ) in Munich. However, he returned a little later as senior editor to the Tagesspiegel. Since 2002, he has written a column for Die Zeit titled "Lebenszeichen", which since May 24, 2007 appears in Zeit-Magazin LEBEN (a supplement to Die Zeit) as "Harald Martenstein". Since 2004 Martenstein also writes a column for GEO Kompakt.[1][2] His second novel, Gefühlte Nähe (Felt close) received rather critical reviews.[3]

In 2004, he received the Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis for the second best investigative report published in German in 2004. Martenstein had dealt with the internal conflicts in Suhrkamp, a major publisher of literary works with longstanding legal conflicts between its owners.

In February 2007, Martenstein's novel debut Heimweg was released and later won the . He has also published several volumes of his collected columns under different titles.

Martenstein lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Works[]

  • Männer sind wie Pfirsiche. C. Bertelsmann, München, 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-00961-1
  • Heimweg. Roman, C. Bertelsmann, München, Feb. 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-00953-6
  • Vom Leben gezeichnet. Tagebuch eines Endverbrauchers. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, August 2004.
  • Wachsen Ananas auf Bäumen? Wie ich meinem Kind die Welt erkläre. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2001.
  • Spot aus! Licht an! Meine Story, zus. mit Ilja Richter, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1999.
  • Das hat Folgen. Deutschland und seine Fernsehserien. Reclam, Leipzig 1996.
  • Die Mönchsrepublik. Erotik in der deutschen Politik von Adenauer bis Claudia Nolte. Fannei & Walz, Berlin 1994.

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Martensteins Holumne: Sag mir, wo du stehst - Kultur - Tagesspiegel". www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  2. ^ K.d.ö.R., Zentralrat. "Redezeit: »Schwer tsu saijn a Jid zum Schein« | Jüdische Allgemeine". www.juedische-allgemeine.de. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  3. ^ Schmidt, Christopher (October 20, 2010). "Harald Martenstein: Gefühlte Nähe: Samenstaugewinsel". sueddeutsche.de (in German). ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
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