Paul R.A. De Giberne Sieveking (born 1949) is a British journalist and former magazine editor.

Until 2002, Sieveking was co-editor of the magazine The Fortean Times with its founder Bob Rickard. He joined the UK-based "Journal of the Unexplained" in 1978. His father, Lancelot "Lance" De Giberne Sieveking was an early BBC radio and television drama pioneer, and his half-brother Gale De Giberne Sieveking was an archaeologist.

Biography

Sieveking was born in London in 1949, the son of writer/broadcaster/producer Lance Sieveking. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read anthropology, graduating in 1971.[1]

He subsequently produced the first English translation (with John Fullerton) of Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life, which was published by Practical Paradise Publications in 1975.

Fortean Times

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Sieveking was introduced to FT-founder Bob Rickard by mutual friend Ion Will in 1978, some five years and more than 25 issues after it was first self-published as The News in 1973, before becoming Fortean Times in 1976. Joining the team as co-associate editor (with Steve Moore) under Rickard. He took over full editorial duties for the four quarterly issues of 1984-1985 (#43-46), to give Rickard a chance to "revitalize",[2] (which he did). Sieveking then joined Rickard as co-editor for the next 16–17 years, until editorship was passed to David Sutton in 2002.

Sieveking was the Strange Days news editor until the end of 2019, but still plays a major role for FT, writing the Archaeology column, compiling the Extra Extra section, and editing the Letters pages. He also acts as quality-control proof-reader and contributes occasional feature articles.

Other

Whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, Sieveking co-edited with the artist Antony Gormley the little magazine Origo 3 (circa 1970, sole edition), which featured some of the artist's first published work. Sieveking has produced occasional articles for online magazine NthPosition, and is described by them as having "been a student of extreme human behaviour since the glory days of the Situationists."[3]

Bibliography

Fortean Times collected editions

Other Fortean titles

(As editor/compiler, unless stated.)

References

  1. ^ Sieveking, Paul (ed.) Man Bites Man: The Scrapbook of an English Eccentric - George Ives (Jay Landesman 1980), pg. 5
  2. ^ Bob Rickard (Autumn 1984). "Editorial". The Fortean Times #42.
  3. ^ Nth Position Online Magazine: Paul Sieveking Archived 2007-08-08 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed March 6, 2008
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