Life

Michael Rutschky grew up in Spangenberg

Spangenberg

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, Hesse

Hesse

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. From 1963 to 1971, he studied

Higher education

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 Sociology

Sociology

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, Literary Science and Philosophy

Philosophy

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 at the Universities

University

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 Frankfurt am Main (amongst others under Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno

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 and Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...

), Göttingen and FU Berlin. From 1969 to 1978, he worked as a social research

Social research

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er at the Freie Universität Berlin; he would attain a Doctorate

Doctorate

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 there as a Doctor of Philosophy. From 1979 to 1984, he lived in Munich

Munich

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. There he belonged to the Editing

Editing

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 of the periodical Merkur

Merkur (journal)

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 and the editor of the TransAtlantik in 1980/81. Since 1985, he again works and lives in Berlin. From 1985 to 1997, he was contributing editor

Contributing editor

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 to the periodical Der Alltag.

Michael Rutschky is a writer of essay

Essay

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s in whose Narrative

Narrative

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 passages and sociological interpretation of the everyday present enter into an original mixture and a comical

Comedy

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 work not seldom produced.

Michael Rutschky is a member of the PEN Zentrums Deutschland

International PEN

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. He received the 1997 Heinrich Mann Prize

Heinrich Mann Prize

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; in 1999 he held the poetic dozent of the University of Heidelberg. He is Scholar at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg

Bamberg

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.

He was married to the educationalist and publisher Katharina Rutschky

Katharina Rutschky

Katharina Rutschky was a German educationalist and author. She coined the term "Schwarze Pädagogik" in her eponymous book from 1977. The term was later translated to poisonous pedagogy by Alice Miller...

 until her death in January 2010.

Works

• Schüler im Literaturunterricht (Students in the Literary Teaching), Cologne 1975 (together with Hartmut Eggert and Hans Christoph Berg)
• Studien zur psychoanalytischen Interpretation von Literatur (Studies of the Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Literature), Berlin 1978
• Erfahrungshunger (Experience Hunger), Cologne 1980
• Lektüre der Seele (Lectures of the Soul), Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1981
• Wartezeit (Waiting Time), Cologne 1983
• Zur Ethnographie des Inlands (Of the Demographics of the Home Country), Frankfurt am Main 1984
• Auf Reisen (From Trips), Frankfurt am Main 1986
• Was man zum Leben wissen muß (What one must know to live), Zürich 1987
• Thomas – mach ein Bild von uns! (Thomas - make a Picture of us!), München [et al.] 1988 (together with Thomas Karsten and Peter Brasch)
• Reise durch das Ungeschick und andere Meisterstücke (Trips through the Awkward and other Mater Pieces), Zürich 1990
• Mit Dr. Siebert in Amerika (With Dr. Siebert in America), Zürich [et al.] 1991
• Traumnachrichten (Dream News), Hersbruck 1991
• Unterwegs im Beitrittsgebiet (Away in the Member Area), Göttingen 1994
• Die Meinungsfreude (The Opinion's Friends), Göttingen 1997
• Der verborgene Brecht (The Hidden Break), Zürich [et al.] 1997 (together with Juergen Teller)
• Lebensromane (Life Novels), Göttingen 1998
• Berlin, Berlin 2001
• Wie wir Amerikaner wurden (How we became American), München 2004

Publisher

• Errungenschaften (Achievements), Frankfurt am Main 1982
• Ein Jahresbericht (The Yearly Report), Frankfurt am Main 1983
• Tag für Tag (Day for Day), Frankfurt am Main 1984
• Die andere Chronik (The Other Chronicle) 1987, Cologne 1987

External links

• Literature by and on Michael Rutschky in the Catalog of the German National Library
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• Short Biography from the Pages of taz
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