Deutscher Buchpreis: The Jury

Gerrit Bartels

Gerrit Bartels, born in Braunschweig in 1967, studied medicine in Göttingen and Berlin and worked as a doctor in internal medicine and psychiatry. From 1998 to 2006, Bartels was culture editor at taz in Berlin, and, since autumn 2006, he has worked as literature editor at the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”, where he has been deputy head of culture since 2021.

Magda Birkmann

After a traineeship at Suhrkamp Verlag, Magda Birkmann has been a full-time bookseller at the Berlin bookshop “Ocelot” since 2018. She also works as a freelance moderator and literary mediator and sends out a regular literary newsletter. Together with Nicole Seifert, she publishes the Rowohlt Verlag series “rororo Entdeckungen” featuring rediscovered 20th-century women authors. In 2021, she was nominated for the Börsenblatt Young Excellence Award.

Natascha Freundel

Natascha Freundel was born in Magdeburg in 1974. Since 2018, she has been an editor at rbbKultur and host of the podcast “Der zweite Gedanke”. Previously, she served as editor at NDR Kultur in Hanover and Hamburg. She studied philosophy, German language and literature and Slavic studies in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, and worked as a freelance journalist and literary critic, reporting from Berlin, Israel and Eastern Europe for the cultural channels of the broadcaster ARD. In 2006, she received the IJP/Ernst Cramer Fellowship to work at “Haaretz”, Tel Aviv, and, in 2015, she was awarded the “Grenzgänger” grant for research in Ukraine. In 2019, she was a juror for the Alfred Döblin Prize.

Torsten Hoffmann

Torsten Hoffmann was born in 1973. After working at the universities of Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main, he has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Stuttgart since 2018. Since 2021, he has served as President of the International Rilke Society. He has also moderated numerous events at literary centres. His main areas of work comprise new right-wing literary politics, the theory and history of interviewing, Rainer Maria Rilke and contemporary literature.

Marianna Lieder

Marianna Lieder was born in Hanover in 1978 and lives in Berlin. She studied philosophy, comparative literature, and Romance languages and literature in Bonn. In 2007, she completed a traineeship as an editor at the Berlin publishing house Parthas Verlag and worked at the publishing house Héloïse d’Ormesson in Paris. Since 2008, she has been working as a literary critic and cultural journalist. Until 2021, she was an editor at “Philosophie Magazin”. She writes for Frankfurter “Allgemeine Zeitung”, “Die Welt” and “Zeit online”, among other outlets.

Regina Moths

Regina Moths was born in Stuttgart in 1960. She studied theatre, film and television studies, German language and literature, and sociology in Frankfurt. During this time, she also worked as an assistant and director in the radio drama and features departments of the broadcasters Südwestfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Saarländischer Rundfunk. In 1992, she took over the “Büchergilde Gutenberg” bookshop in Munich. It was named “Bookshop of the Year” by Buchreport in 2009 and also received the Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis (German Bookshop Award) for the categories “Best Bookshops” in 2015 and “Particularly Outstanding Bookshops” in 2022.

Klaus Nüchtern

Klaus Nüchtern studied German and English language and literature in Vienna and, since 1989, has been writing for Falter magazine, where he was head of the literature and arts section for 25 years. Several compilations of his column “Nüchtern betrachtet” have appeared in book form, and he has also published books on Buster Keaton (Zsolnay, 2012), Heimito von Doderer (C.H. Beck, 2016) and, most recently, the volume “Famose Vögel” (Falter Verlag, 2023). In 2009, he received the City of Vienna Prize for Journalism and, in 2011, the Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism. Nüchtern is also a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society, runs the jazz label Handsemmel Records and is a perpetual student of history.

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