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 Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

and completed his doctorate in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. After graduation, he worked as a freelance journalist. From 1989 to 1997 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 The (; ''FAZ''; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt and is considered a newspaper of record for Germany. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' ( ...

. He then worked as an editor at the

Berliner Zeitung The ''Berliner Zeitung'' (; ) is a daily newspaper based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in East Germany in 1945, it is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since Reunification of Germany, reunification. It is published by Berl ...

, where he headed the

Feuilleton A ''feuilleton'' (; a diminutive of , the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle ...

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'' ( Non-fiction book / Essay writing)Leipzig, Germany

Bibliography

* ''Wolfszeit'', Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, . English title ''Aftermath''. * ''Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955'' - Translated from German by Shaun Whiteside. * ''Erzählter, montierter, soufflierter Text. Zur Konstruktion des Romans "Berlin Alexanderplatz" von Alfred Döblin'', Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984, . * Herausgegeben gemeinsam mit Krista Tebbe: ''Alfred Döblin zum Beispiel. Stadt und Literatur.'', Elefanten Press, Berlin 1987, .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jahner, Harald German literary scholars 1953 births Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts Living people German art historians 21st-century German journalists German non-fiction writers German-language writers