Denis Scheck

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Denis Scheck
Denis Scheck, 2010
Born (1964-12-15) December 15, 1964 (age 59)
Stuttgart
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Journalist, Literary critic, Television presenter
Known forPresenting the television show Druckfrisch
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Denis Scheck (born 15 December 1964) is a German literary critic, journalist, television presenter and former translator.

Biography

Born in Stuttgart, he studied German studies, contemporary history and political science at the universities of Tübingen, Düsseldorf and Dallas, and earned a master's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen in 2004.[1]

Scheck has been a literary agent, translator of American and British authors, publisher and independent critic. In 1997, he was appointed literary editor at Deutschlandfunk. He has presented the ARD programme Druckfrisch since February 2003.

Controversy

Scheck criticized the decision by German publisher Thienemann to change a handful of racist and racially insensitive terms in a new edition of Otfried Preussler’s “The Little Witch,” a German children's classic from the nineteen-fifties.[2] In response, and as an act of protest, in January 2013, he appeared on TV in blackface.[3]

Publications

  • 1993: King Kong, Spock & Drella – ein Lexikon amerikanischer Trivialmythen
  • 1994: Hell’s Kitchen – Streifzüge durch die zeitgenössische US-Literatur
  • 2011: Sie & Er, der kleine Unterschied beim Essen und Trinken
  • 2014: Kurt Vonnegut
  • 2019: Schecks Kanon: Die 100 wichtigsten Werke der Weltliteratur

Television

  • Druckfrisch (since 2003)
  • Lesenswert Quartett (since 2014)
  • Lesenswert (since 2016)
  • Kunscht! (since 2016)

Honours

  • Kritikerpreis des Deutschen Anglistentages, 2000
  • Übersetzerbarke des Deutschen Literaturübersetzerverbandes, 2007
  • Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award, 2012

References

  1. ^ "Press Release: Denis Scheck takes over Guest Professorship for literature criticism in Göttingen". uni-goettingen.de (in German). January 23, 2004. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  2. ^ Wilder, Charly (2013-01-16). "Redacting Racism: Edit of Classic Children's Book Hexes Publisher". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  3. ^ "A Fight in Germany Over Racist Language". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-12-06.

External links

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