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At the Nabokov Museum, St.Petersburg, 1999 Photo by Olga Voronina |
In Canyonlands National Park, Utah, October, 2002 |
Dieter E(duard) Zimmer 24 November 1934 (Berlin-Pankow) - 19 June 2020 (Berlin)
Father Max Zimmer, tax official (1895-1986) Mother Johanna Zimmer, housewife (1905-1998) Brothers Jürgen (born 1937) and Rainer (born 1944) Grew up in Berlin-Steglitz Married 1960-1988 to Katharina Zimmer née Keit From 2008 married to Sabine Hartmann Daughters Caroline (born 1963) and Mirjam (born 1966) Elementary school 1941-1953 in Berlin-Steglitz and Flieth (Uckermark), high school in Potsdam, Berlin and Evanston, Illinois (first American Field Service high school exchange program 1950-51) High school graduation ("Abitur", mathematical-scientific branch) 1953 Paulsenschule, Berlin-Steglitz Studies of German and English language and literature at Free University Berlin, University of Münster, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), University of Geneva M.A. 1957 (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois) "Assistant de langage" at high schools in Charleville-Mézières, France (1957-1958) and Geneva, Switzerland (1958-1959) 1959-1999 on the editorial staff of the weekly DIE ZEIT in Hamburg - until 1977 in the cultural section (1963-1973 mainly responsible for book reviews, 1973-1977 editor-in-charge of ZEIT Feuilleton) - from 1977 as staff writer mainly on matters of science in the fields psychology, biology, anthropology, medicine, linguistics - 1990-1992 "cultural correspondent" in Berlin From 2000 free lancer in Hamburg, since 2002 in Berlin Dr. phil. h.c. (TU Dresden, 2003) Awards 1964 Friedrich-Perthes-Preis 1968 Theodor-Wolff-Preis 1982 Preis für Wissenschaftspublizistik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie 1986 Wang-Journalistenpreis 1990 Medienpreis für Sprachkultur der Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache 1991 Preis des Anglistentags für Wissenschaftsjournalismus 1996 Helmut-M.-Braem-Übersetzer-Preis 1998 Helmut-Sontag-Preis 2008 Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt-Preis für literarische Übersetzungen
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