At the Nabokov Museum,
St.Petersburg, 1999
Photo by Olga Voronina
In Canyonlands National Park, Utah, October, 2002
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At the Nabokov Museum, St.Petersburg, 1999 Photo by Olga Voronina |
In Canyonlands National Park, Utah, October, 2002 |
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Dieter E(duard) Zimmer Born November 24, 1934 in Berlin-Pankow Father Max Zimmer, tax official (1895-1986) Mother Johanna Zimmer, housewife (1905-1998) Brothers Jürgen (born 1937) and Rainer (born 1944) Grew up in Berlin-Steglitz Married 1960-1988 to Katharina Zimmer née Keit Daughters Caroline (born 1963) and Mirjam (born 1966) Elementary school 1941-1953 in Berlin and Flieth (Uckermark), high school in Potsdam, Berlin and USA (Evanston, Illinois - American Field Service exchange program 1950-51) High school graduation ("Abitur", mathematical-scientific branch) 1953 Paulsenschule, Berlin-Steglitz Studies of German and English language and literature at Free University Berlin, University of Münster, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), University of Geneva M.A. 1957 (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois) "Assistant de langage" at high schools in Charleville-Mézières, France (1957-1958) and Geneva, Switzerland (1958-1959) 1959-1999 on the editorial staff of the weekly DIE ZEIT in Hamburg - until 1977 in the cultural section (1963-1973 mainly responsible for book reviews, 1973-1977 editor-in-charge of ZEIT Feuilleton) - from 1977 as staff writer mainly on matters of science in the fields psychology, biology, anthropology, medicine, linguistics - 1990-1992 "cultural correspondent" in Berlin From 2000 free lancer in Hamburg, since 2002 in Berlin Dr. phil. h.c. (TU Dresden, 2003)
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