Henning Ritter, born 1943 in Seiffersdorf (now Kozy, Poland) studied Philosophy, Art History and Classical Philology in Marburg, Heidelberg and Berlin. In the early 1970s he began working in publishing while also working as a translator and writer, before heading the Humanities section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 1985 to 2008. He died in 2013 in Berlin.
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