Wolf Jobst Siedler

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Wolf Jobst Siedler (born 17 January 1926 in Berlin) is a German publisher and writer.

He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and worked as a journalist. His house Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag was bought in 1989 by Bertelsmann-Gruppe.

He has authored several books and writes for many German publications including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit and Die Welt.

Siedler is interviewed about his assessments of Albert Speer in the docudrama Speer und Er.

[edit] Honours

  • Großer Schinkel-Preis
  • Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis|Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis für Essayistik
  • Deutscher Nationalpreis (2002)

[edit] References

Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts (2007)

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