Thomas Steinfeld
- Germany
- Zu Gast beim ilb: 2010
Biography
Bibliography
Biography
born 1954 in Leverkusen, he studied German Language and Literature and Musicology, earning his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Hegel’s aesthetics. He worked for the »FAZ« and in 2001 switched to the »Süddeutschen Zeitung«, where he runs the cultural pages since 2007. Steinfeld concentrates on the development, the peculiarities and possibilities of the German language. In 2010 he published his »Sprachverführer« (tr: Language Seducer). Steinfeld lives in Munich.
Bibliography
Der Arzt von San Michele
Axel Munthe und die Kunst,
dem Leben einen Sinn zu geben
Hanser
München, 2007
Der Sprachverführer
Die deutsche Sprache:
Was sie ist, was sie kann
Hanser
München, 2010