Lothar Baier

Male, Deceased Person

1942 – 2004

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Who was Lothar Baier?

Lothar Baier was a German author, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical text + kritik.

He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the Francophone World and was recognized with the 1982 Jean Améry Prize for Essayists and with the 2003 Gerrit Engelke Prize. Baier published amongst others in the Merkur, in the Kursbuch and in the Deutschlandfunk and was for many years the editor of the Die Wochenzeitung in Zürich.

On 11 July 2004, Baier committed suicide in Montreal, Canada.

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Born
May 16, 1942
Karlsruhe
Nationality
  • Germany
Died
Jul 11, 2004
Montreal

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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