Harald Jähner
German journalist and writer
Harald Jähner (born March 26, 1953) is a German journalist and author. Since 2011 he has been an honorary professor of cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Biography
Jähner studied literature, history and art history in Freiburg and completed his doctorate in Berlin. After graduation, he worked as a freelance journalist. For several years Jähner was head of the communication department of the House of World Cultures in Berlin.
At the same time from 1994 to 1997 he wrote as a freelance literary critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He then worked as an editor at the Berliner Zeitung, where he headed the Feuilleton department from 2003 to 2015. Since 2011, Jähner has been honorary professor of cultural journalism at Berlin University of the Arts. In 2019, Jähner published Wolfszeit, a consideration of German life in the post-war decade 1945–1955, published by Rowohlt Berlin.
Awards
In 2019, Jähner won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Wolfszeit (Category: Non-fiction book / Essay writing)
Bibliography
Wolfszeit, Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0013-7.
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