Andreas Krause Landt

Krause Landt in 2014

Andreas Krause Landt (born 1963), also known as Andreas Lombard, is a German journalist and publisher, and the author of popular history books.

Krause Landt was born in Hamburg in 1963, the paternal grandson of the French Calvinist pastor Jules Sully Lombard.[1] He studied philosophy, German literature, and history at Heidelberg University and the Free University of Berlin, completing his studies in 1993 with a Magister's thesis entitled "Topographies of the sublime: alienation and aestheticism in the work of Peter Weiss".

He then worked writing screenplays for dubs and from 1996 as a freelance journalist, notably for the Berliner Zeitung and Deutschlandradio Kultur.

In 2005 he founded the publisher Landt Verlag, which publishes mainly works on 19th- and 20th-century history.[2] In 2007 Krause Landt received the Gerhard-Löwenthal-Preis for journalism in recognition of his work at Landt Verlag.

On 30 July 2013, Krause Landt expressed a stance against adoption of children by same-sex couples.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Krause Landt, Andreas (2010). "Mein jüdisches Viertel, meine deutsche Angst". Schnellroda (in German).
  2. ↑ "Nachschub für die Schrankwand". Tagesspiegel (in German). 12 January 2007.
  3. ↑ "Bei Kindern hört der Spaß auf - Zur Adoption in der Homo-Ehe" (in German). Deutschlandradio Kultur. 30 July 2013.

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