Education
Martenstein studied History and Romance Studies in Freiburg.
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Martenstein studied History and Romance Studies in Freiburg.
From 1981 to 1988, he was a journalist at the Stuttgarter Zeitung and from 1988 to 1997 he was a journalist at Tagesspiegel in Berlin. Then, Martenstein took up for a short time the line of the culture editorship at the Abendzeitung (Arizona) in Munich. However, he returned a little later as senior editor to the Tagesspiegel.
Since 2002, he has written a column for Die Zeit titled "Lebenszeichen", which since May 24, 2007 appears in Zeit-Magazin LEBEN (a supplement to Die Zeit) as "Harald Martenstein".
Since 2004 Martenstein also writes a column for GEO Kompakt. HIs second novel, Gefühlte Nähe (Felt close) received rather critical reviews.
In 2004, he received the Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis for the second best investigative report published in German in 2004. Martenstein had dealt with the internal conflicts in Suhrkamp, a major publisher of literary works with longstanding legal conflicts between its owners.
He has also published several volumes of his collected columns under different titles.
Martenstein lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg.