Malte Herwig

Malte Herwig ( born October 2, 1972 in Kassel, Germany ) is a German journalist, writer and literary critic.

Malte Herwig studied after attending the Kassel Gymnasium Friedrich literature, history and political science at the Universities of Mainz, Oxford and Harvard. From 2000 to 2003 he was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, where he became his doctorate in 2002 with a thesis on Thomas Mann. His dissertation Bildungsbürger Gone Wrong: science in the work of Thomas Mann was awarded the 2004 first recipient of the Thomas Mann Thomas Mann award of the German Society.

Since 2002, Herwig published in German and international media, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Time, World, Germany radio culture, literatures, Cicero, world week, Observer and New York Times. He was for several years editor of the culture section of the mirror, where he caused a stir with investigative cultural reports on Schiller's skull, the Mexican police reading, the Holocaust denier David Irving and the North Korean film industry. 2005 appeared elites in an egalitarian world, a confrontation with the emerging debate over elite universities.

In 2009, he sparked a controversy when he revealed the alleged Nazi party membership of the composer Hans Werner Henze, and the writer Dieter Weller Hoff in the world in the week and time - magazine basis of research in the Federal Archives. The publicist Franziska Augstein said, " ... Henze did not deserve to be lifelong, Entering degraded in words and music for peace, humanity and justice ' [ ... ] to a penance " will. However, the authenticity of the Nazi party membership cards of Henze and Weller Hoff could not be refuted.

In November 2010, his biography appeared in the DVA about the writer Peter Handke Master dusk.

Works

• The Flakhelfer. As leader of Hitler's recent party members in Germany were Democrats. 
DVA, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04556-0.
• Master dusk. Peter Handke: A Biography. DVA, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-421-04449-5.
• Elites in an egalitarian world. wjs -Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937989-11-0.
• Educated citizen gone astray. Science in the work of Thomas Mann. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-465-03352-3.