Bruno Arich-Gerz
Bruno Arich-Gerz (* 1966 ) is a German media and literary scholar who also publishes detective novels under the pseudonym Bruno Laberthier . He lives in Hürth near Cologne and Darmstadt .
Focus of work
Arich-Gerz completed his doctorate in 2000 on the American prose writer Thomas Pynchon at the University of Konstanz and worked as a junior professor at the TU Darmstadt on the topics of Namibian post-coloniality in literature and culture as well as on German and American representations of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp .
Fonts (selection)
- Mittelbau-Dora. American and German Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp: Literature, Visual Media and the Culture of Memory from 1945 to the Present (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009)
- Theory and history of media (culture) from 'around 1900' to nine-eleven (lecture script; Aachen: Shaker, 2009)
- Namibia's postcolonialisms. Texts on the present and the past in South West Africa (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2008)
- Mina - media - allegory. On the interdependence of technological progress, media development and trauma theory in English-language literature of the 19th and 20th centuries (Darmstadt: TUD series of publications on science and technology, 2004)
- Read - watch. Model of an aesthetic effect with Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow' (Konstanz: UVK, 2001)
As a crime writer under the pseudonym "Bruno Laberthier":
- All bucks bite. Rheinlese Verlag, Ingelheim, May 2010 ISBN 978-3-9808820-9-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arich-Gerz, Bruno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laberthier, Bruno (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |