Obit

Schirrmacher, 54

GERMAN JOURNALIST Frank Schirrmacher died of a heart attack last June 12. He was 54. 

He was literary editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in 1989 and became its co-publisher in 1994. (Prominent German intellectual dies suddenly, The Irish Times) 

He wrote, among other books, “The Methuselah Conspiracy” (2004) and “Minimum” (2006). (Gauck pays tribute to newspaper publisher, The Local)

He also published “Ego: The Game of Life” in 2003 on the implications of digital technology. (Frank Schirrmacher, German Newspaper Publisher, Dies at 54, The New York Times)

Mathias Dopfner, chief executive of Springer media, said Schirrmacher was “the most effective journalist of the last decades.”