Christoph Ribbat

Christoph Ribbat (* 1968 ) is a German Americanist .

Ribbat studied English and history at the Ruhr University Bochum , where he received his doctorate in 1995. In 2002 he completed his habilitation with a paper on the relationship between literature and photography. After two years in Basel, he was appointed Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Paderborn in 2007 .

In 2016, Ribbat was nominated for his work Im Restaurant for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction / essay category. The book was published in ten different languages. In 2017, Ribbat published a biography of basketball player Wilbert Olinde , which traces the family history of the Olindes back 200 years and contrasts the sporting and professional career of the three-time German champion with the SSC Göttingen and the ASC 1846 Göttingen .

Works

• Religious excitement - Protestant enthusiasts in the German Empire . Campus, Frankfurt / Main 1996, ISBN 978-3-593-35599-3
• Eye Contact - On the Relationship History of American Literature and Photography (1945–2000) . Fink, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 978-3-7705-3768-6
• Flickering Modernity - The History of Neon Light . Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09890-8
• Basketball - A Cultural History . Fink, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5599-4
• In the restaurant - a story from the belly of modernity . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-46834-0
• Germany for one season - The true story of Wilbert Olinde Jr. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42772-9
• The breathing teacher - How Carola Spitz fled Berlin and took mindfulness with her to New York . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42927-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Ribbat in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the University of Paderborn (accessed on February 11, 2018)