Iris Radisch

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Iris Radisch
Born (1959-07-02) 2 July 1959 (age 65)
West Berlin, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma mater Frankfurt
Tübingen
Occupation(s)Literature journalist
Television moderator
Author
SpouseEberhard Rathgeb
Children3 daughters

Iris Radisch (born 2 July 1959) is a German literature-journalist. Since 1990 she has written for the mass-circulation weekly newspaper, Die Zeit . More recently she has come to wider prominence through her television work. [1] [2]

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Biography

Iris Radisch was born in West Berlin (as it was known at that time). She attended university at Frankfurt and Tübingen, studying German studies, Romance studies and Philosophy. She then moved into journalism, working as a literary editor with the Frankfurter Rundschau , a mass-market daily newspaper. Her switch to Die Zeit came in 1990. As a regular contributor to the paper's Feuilleton (arts and literature) section she gained a reputation as a perceptive, original, but sometimes also starkly polemical literature critic, able to deliver her judgments with a rare level of authority. [1] She was able to combine her journalism with guest professorships, notably at Saint Louis University and at University of Göttingen. She also began to appear as a television moderator in discussion programes transmitted by ZDF, ARD, WDR and the private-sector broadcaster VOX. [2]

Her public profile rose after August 2000 when she began her involvement with Das Literarische Quartett  [ de ] (The Literary Quartet), a weekly television program produced by West Germany's ZDF broadcasting operator in collaboration (at that time) with Austria's ORF. The program presented book reviews provided (and argued over) by a permanent panel of four literary critics. Radisch took the place vacated through the well publicised resignation from the program of Sigrid Löffler. [3] She remained a panel member till December 2001 when (temporarily, as it later turned out) the series came to an end. She also participated in a number of subsequent "one-off" episodes transmitted during 2005 and 2006 to celebrate anniversaries of Friedrich Schiller, Thomas Mann, [4] Heinrich Heine und Bertolt Brecht. [5]

During 2002/2003 she teamed up with the philosopher-journalist Gert Scobel, the longstanding moderator of the television arts magazine Kulturzeit, as an alternate presenter of the literary radio programme "Bücher, Bücher" from Hessischer Rundfunk. [1] From August 2006 till September 2012 she "fronted" Swiss Television's Literaturclub show in succession to Roger Willemsen. [6]

Between 1995 and 2000 Radisch served on the jury for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, a literary prize centred on German language literature and awarded each year, since 1977, in Klagenfurt. [7] She returned to the prize jury a few years later, chairing it between 2003 and 2007. [8]

In 2007 Iris Radisch published her first book, "Die Schule der Frauen" (loosely "The women's school"). It was not the first time the title had been used, but Radisch's book covers and builds on more contemporary and pressing themes than the similarly titled works of Molière and Gide. [9] "I have three children and one professional job and I am not a believer in simple solutions" (""Ich habe drei Kinder und einen Beruf und ich glaube nicht an einfache Lösungen"). [9] The author illuminates her own experience of sustaining a professional career with her "career" as a mother of three small children by two different men. She "exposes modern myths" about the compatibility of family and profession. She discusses the semi-detached contributions of fathers. [10]

Since April 2013, jointly with Adam Soboczynski  [ de ], she has headed up Die Zeit 's Feuilleton section. [11]

Celebration

In 2008 the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache awarded her the Medienpreis für Sprachkultur  [ de ] for her work on Die Zeit . In 2009 the French Culture Minister, Christine Albanel, made her a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. [12]

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  3. ↑ "Iris Radisch ersetzt Sigrid Löffler". Iris Radisch wird neues Mitglied beim ZDF-Büchermagazin "Das Literarische Quartett". Die Literaturkritikerin der "Zeit" wird schon an der nächsten Sendung am 18. August teilnehmen. Der Spiegel (online). 1 August 2000. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Extra-Runde für Thomas Mann". Literarisches Quartett ... Das "Literarische Quartett" kommt nur noch zusammen, wenn es sich richtig lohnt: Nach der Sonderausgabe zum 200. Todestag Schillers wird am 17. August eine Sendung zu Ehren Thomas Manns ausgestrahlt. Zum 50. Todestag des Riesen war dies der Wunsch seines größten Fans: Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Der Spiegel (online). 29 June 2005. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Iris Radisch (14 June 2015). ""Die Leute kriegen jetzt erst mal mich"". Das ZDF wird im Herbst das legendäre "Literarische Quartett" wieder auflegen. Der Literaturkritiker Volker Weidermann soll es leiten. Wie geht er damit um, dass ihn nun alle mit Marcel Reich-Ranicki vergleichen werden? Und wer macht noch alles mit? Ein Gespräch zwischen ZEIT-Feuilletonchefin Iris Radisch, die in der alten Sendung dabei war, und dem neuen Moderator. Die Zeit (online). Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Iris Radisch verlässt den "Literaturclub"". Am 26. Juni moderiert die deutsche Journalistin zum letzten Mal die Literatursendung des Schweizer Fernsehens, die sie sechs Jahre geleitet hat. Tages-Anzeiger, Zürich. 7 June 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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  9. 1 2 "Liebe, Arbeit, Kinder". Iris Radisch gründet eine "Schule der Frauen" und fordert mehr Familienzeit (book review). Axel Springer SE (Welt). 17 March 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  10. ↑ Gabriela Herpell (17 May 2010). ""Ich finde nicht, dass alles easy ist"". Statt der Modellfamilie gibt es viele Familienmodelle. Nicht alle sind bunt und lustig, meint Iris Radisch, Buchautorin und Literaturkritikerin. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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