Contributors Jens Dirksen

About Jens Dirksen

Jens Dirksen is the son of a miner and studied German and English literature, political studies and journalism in Münster. He worked as a journalist for the newspaper Neue Ruhr/Neue Rhein Zeitung from 1994 and became literary editor in 1997, before assuming the role as head of the culture section at WAZ in 2009. He is a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen, writes essays about the history of literature (including for the magazine “text + kritik”) and is a co-founder of the reading series “Landwirtschaftliches Feuilleton.”

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