Dietmar Dath

Dietmar Dath is a writer, translator, and commentator on aesthetic and political topics. From 1998 to 2000 he was editor-in-chief of the pop culture magazine Spex, from 2001 to 2007 editor at the feuilleton section of the F.A.Z., and since 2011 is a film critic at the same paper. His novel The Abolition of the Species (2008) was nominated for the German Book Prize and won the Kurd Laßwitz Prize. In 2013 Dath was guest lecturer on fantasy and the speculative arts at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen.
 

Recently published (selection): Lost (2013), Der Implex: Sozialer Fortschritt: Geschichte und Idee (co-written with Barbara Kirchner), Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp (2012), Pulsarnacht. Roman, Munich, Heyne (2012), Kleine Polizei im Schnee. Erzählungen, Berlin, Verbrecher Verlag (2012).