Manuela Hoelterhoff

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Manuela Hoelterhoff
Born (1949-04-06) April 6, 1949 (age 75)
Hamburg, Germany
OccupationCultural journalist
Education Hofstra University (BA)
New York University (MA)
Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Manuela Vali Hoelterhoff is a German-born American cultural journalist, who was the executive editor of Muse, [1] the arts and culture section of Bloomberg News until 2015. [2] She received a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

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Personal life and education

Manuela V. Hoelterhoff was born April 6, 1949, in Hamburg, Germany, to a Latvian mother, Olga Christina Alexandrovna Goertz, a native of Riga, and a German father, Heinz Alfons Martin Hoelterhoff. [3]

She immigrated to the United States with her parents in 1957. [4] Hoelterhoff holds a bachelor's degree from Hofstra University, and a master's degree from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. [5]

Professional career

Hoelterhoff is a commentator and editor whose topics have ranged widely over the contemporary world to include opera and theater, art and architecture, literature and travel, and how animals affect our lives. Her first articles appeared in William F. Buckley's National Review . There followed a twenty-year stint at The Wall Street Journal , [6] where she wrote reviews and served as arts editor, books editor and member of the editorial board. In this period, she was also a founding editor of SmartMoney magazine, and worked with Harold Evans on creating Conde Nast Traveler. [7]

Hoelterhoff won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for her 1983 work with The Wall Street Journal, citing "her wide-ranging criticism on the arts and other subjects". [8]

In 1998, Alfred A. Knopf published her Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, which was widely reviewed. [9] [10] [11] [12] It was translated into French, German and Dutch and it received positive reviews.

In 2000 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow to research Hitler's opera obsessions. [13] [14]

In 2004, Hoelterhoff was hired by Matt Winkler to create a cultural section for Bloomberg News, the company's financial news service. Muse publishes daily on all the arts [15] – from the visual and performing arts to the literary and culinary, plus movies, TV, the art market, cars, gadgets, the environment, travel, and animals.

Her current book project is titled “We Called It Hitler Weather: The Fuhrer From Dawn to Dusk."

Currently she posts daily to a blog called Daisy Mae at Her Interspecies Cafe, [16] created with Mike Di Paola. The blog, devoted to animals in a time of change, has posted more than 500 posts.

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References

  1. ↑ "Twinkie Gotterdammerung Ends Year: Manuela Hoelterhoff". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Two senior editors retire from Bloomberg". politico. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths HOELTERHOFF, HEINZ ALFONS MARTIN". The New York Times. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917-2000. Strauss Offsetdruck. 2002. ISBN   9783598301865 . Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners . Oryx Press. 1999. p.  87. ISBN   978-1-57356-111-2 . Retrieved April 10, 2013. manuela hoelterhoff hamburg.
  6. ↑ "CLASSICAL MUSIC; Stalking a Man of Words With Music". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Cinderella and Company". Random House Inc. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Criticism". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
  9. ↑ Hoelterhoff, Manuela (1999). Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. ISBN   0375707123.
  10. ↑ "CINDERELLA AND COMPANY by Manuela Hoelterhoff". Kirkus Reviews. August 1, 1998. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Cinderella and Company". Random House. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli". GoodReads. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Manuela Hoelterhoff". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  14. ↑ "All Fellows". Guggenheim Foundation. Archived from the original on March 4, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Muse: Arts & Culture". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
  16. ↑ http://www.manuelahoelterhoff.com [ bare URL ]
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