Michael Naumann
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[edit] Life
Dr. Michael Naumann (born 8. December 1941 in Kothen/Anhalt) is a german Politican, Publisher and Journalist. He was the German minister of culture in 1998.
[edit] Education and Career
Michael Naumann graduated with a PhD in political science from Munich University in 1969 and continued his studies as a Florey scholar at Queen's College, Oxford. Naumann wrote his Habilitation on "Structural Change of Heroism, from Sacred to Profane" in 1978; he has also written a number of academic essays on theories of revolution.
Naumann worked for "Die Zeit" and "Spiegel". In 1985 Naumann became Publisher of the Rowohlt Verlag. 1995 he went to New York, first leading Metropolitan Books, then Henry Holt. Between 2000 and 2002 he was the first cultural minister of the Federal Republic before returning to the world of publishing. In 2007 he became the official SPD candidate for the mayor election in Hamburg 2008.
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