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Lothar Baier (German writer, literary critic, and translator)

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Baier, Lothar
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Date of birth
1942-05-16
Place of birth
Karlsruhe
Date of death
2004-07-11
Place of death
Montréal

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Lothar Baier (16 May 1942 – 11 July 2004) was a German author, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical Text+Kritik.

Baier was born in Karlsruhe. He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the Francophone World and was recognized with the 1982 Jean Améry Prize for Essayists and with the 2003 Gerrit Engelke Prize. Baier published amongst others in the Merkur, in the Kursbuch and in the Deutschlandfunk and was for many years the editor of the Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ) in Zürich.

On 11 July 2004, Baier committed suicide in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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0000 0001 0927 7805
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baierlothar
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OL325688A
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97642853
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Q74606

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