Denis Scheck

Denis Scheck, 2010

Denis Scheck (born 15 December, 1964) is a German literary critic and journalist.

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.

Publications

• King Kong, Spock & Drella – ein Lexikon amerikanischer Trivialmythen
• Hell’s Kitchen – Streifzüge durch die zeitgenössische US-Literatur

Honours

• Kritikerpreis des Deutschen Anglistentages, 2000
• Übersetzerbarke des Deutschen Literaturübersetzerverbandes, 2007

References

1. ^ https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html?cid=1266

External links

• Denis Scheck in the German National Library catalogue (German)

• Moderation des ARD-Büchermagazins Druckfrisch

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