Uwe Wittstock
Biography
Bibliography
Biography
Uwe Wittstock was born in Leipzig in 1955. Literary editor of the »Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung«, 1980–1989, and editor for the S. Fischer Verlag for 10 years. He worked for »Die Welt« before becoming literature editor of »Focus« magazine in 2010. Theodor Wolff Prize for journalism, 1989. Recent publications were »Nach der Moderne« (2009, tr. After modernism), an essay on contemporary German literature, and »Der Fall Esra« (2013, tr. The case of Esra), on the limits of literary freedom.
Bibliography
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Die Biographie
Blessing
München, 2005
Nach der Moderne
Essay zur deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur
in zwölf Kapiteln über elf Autoren
Wallstein
Göttingen, 2009
Der Fall Esra
Ein Roman vor Gericht
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Köln, 2011