Background
Manuela V. Hoelterhoff was born April 6, 1949 in Hamburg, Germany to a Latvian mother, Olga Christina Alexandrovna Goertz, a native of Riga, and a German father, Heinz Alfons Martin Hoelterhoff.
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Manuela Hoelterhoff
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New York University; Hofstra University.
Career
Hoelterhoff holds a bachelor"s degree from Hofstra University, and a Master"s Degree from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. Hoelterhoff is a commentator and editor whose topics have ranged widely over the contemporary world to include opera and theater, art and architecture, literature and travel, and how animals affect our lives. Her first articles appeared in William F. Buckley"s National Review.
In this period, she was also a founding editor of SmartMoney magazine, and worked with Harold Evans on creating Conde Nast Traveler.
In 1998, Alfred A. Knopf published her Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, which was widely reviewed. lieutenant was translated into French, German and Dutch and it received positive reviews.
In 2000 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow to research Hitler"s opera obsessions. In 2004, Hoelterhoff was hired by Matt Winkler to create a cultural section for Bloomberg News, the company"s financial news service.
Muse publishes daily on all the arts – from the visual and performing arts to the literary and culinary, plus movies, television, the art market, cars, gadgets, the environment, travel, and animals.
In 2015, she decided to retire.
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There followed a twenty-year stint at The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote reviews and served as arts editor, books editor and member of the editorial board.
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Guggenheim Fellowship Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'.The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'.