Dieter E. Zimmer

Dieter E. Zimmer (1934–2020) was a German freelance author, translator, and science journalist. From 1959 to 1999, he worked as an editor at the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, serving as head of its culture section from 1973 to 1977. His work as a science journalist focused particularly on psychology, biology, medicine, and linguistics. For Rowohlt, he was among other things an editor and translator responsible for the complete Nabokov edition. He received the Science Journalism Award from the German Psychological Society, along with other distinctions.