Gert Raeithel
Gert Raeithel (* 1940 in Munich ) is an Americanist and literary scholar .
Raeithel studied North American cultural history, philosophy and education. In 1966 he received his doctorate on suicides by American writers. In 1972 he completed his habilitation with a study on poverty in large American cities. Until his retirement, Raeithel was Professor of American Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In the meantime he worked at the universities of New York, Denver and Stanford and conducted research in Venice and Saigon.
His main work is the three-volume history of North American culture , which appeared for the first time in 1988 and was published in a revised version at Two Thousand One in 1995 ; the fourth edition appeared in Two Thousand One in 2002.
Gert Raeithel wrote several satirical ethnographic works about Germany under the pseudonym Richard WB McCormack .
Works (selection)
- Victim of society . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1971
- American provincial newspapers . Fink, Munich 1978
- Go West . Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1981
- Washington and some of his admirers . Faude, Konstanz 1987
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History of North American Culture . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-86150-129-5
- Volume 1. From Puritanism to Civil War. 1600-1860
- Volume 2. From the Civil War to the New Deal. 1860-1930
- Volume 3. From the New Deal to the Present. 1930-1995
- America's Latter-day Saints: Mormon Résumés . Eichhorn, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-8218-0466-1
- Riddles America: Essays 1968--2003 . Shaker, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-8322-1248-5
- The Germans and their humor: from Till Eulenspiegel to Harald Schmidt . DTV, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-34215-3
- French people . Shaker, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8440-2030-4
- Confidence in the word: essays, glosses and satires. 1971-2015 . Shaker, Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8440-4014-2
Under the pseudonym Richard WB McCormack :
- Deep in Bavaria. An ethnography. Eichborn, Frankfurt / Main 1991, series: Die Other Bibliothek Volume 75, ISBN 978-3821840758
- Among Germans. Portrait of an enigmatic people. Goldmann, 1996, ISBN 978-3442430468
- In the middle of Berlin. Field studies in the capital. CH Beck, 2000, ISBN 978-3406421501
Web links
- Literature by and about Gert Raeithel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Brief portrait at Shaker-Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kathrin Güte, Martina Schalk: “Among Germans” portrait of an enigmatic people (PDF file, 8.5 kB). Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institute for German Philology, advanced seminar Germany Travel of the Present, summer semester 2006 (accessed on July 31, 2017).
- ↑ Longing for feeling. Focus Magazin No. 52 of December 23, 1994 (accessed July 31, 2017).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raeithel, Gert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McCormack, Richard WB (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Americanist and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |