Education
Weidermann studied political science along with German language and linguistics at Heidelberg and Berlin.
journalist literary critic author
Weidermann studied political science along with German language and linguistics at Heidelberg and Berlin.
He currently works for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as the literary director and editor of the newspaper"s Sunday edition Foreign many years he wrote as a Literary critic for the Berlin-based Tageszeitung, where he was employed as editor between 1998 and 2001. He then switched to the "Literary directorship" of the then newly established Sunday edition of the venerable Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Since 2003 he has headed up the publication jointly with Claudius Seidl.
Wiedermann is publishing the collected output of the prolific pacifist writer Armin T. Wegner: the first volume appeared in 2012. That was also the year in which he took on a guest professorship at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.
He lives in Berlin.