Laurence Arthur Rickels

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Laurence Arthur Rickels (born December 2, 1954 in Cherokee , Iowa ) taught from 1982 to 2011 as a professor of German and comparative literature at the University of California in Santa Barbara and lecturer in the faculty of film and art.

life and work

At the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey , Rickels wrote an independent study on the pathogenic impact of repressed grief on concentration camp survivors during World War II, for which he won the 1972 Sterling Morton Prize.

He received his BA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 . In the meantime he spent a semester abroad at the Free University of Berlin , where he passed the entrance examination for studying German literature in 1973.

He received his PhD in German literature from Princeton University in 1980.

Laurence Rickels received his Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Southern California in 1994 . Since April 2011 he has held a professorship for art and theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. He currently lives in Karlsruhe and Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. Peter Krapp: Laurence Arthur Rickels. Curriculum vitae. ( English ) University of California, Irvine . Retrieved December 20, 2010.