Michael Rutschky

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Michael Rutschky (born May 25, 1943 in Berlin ; † March 17, 2018 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Michael Rutschky grew up in Spangenberg / Hessen and attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in Melsungen . From 1963 to 1971 studied it sociology , literature and philosophy at the universities of Frankfurt am Main (u. A. At Theodor W. Adorno and Jürgen Habermas ), Göttingen and Berlin .

From 1969 to 1978 he worked as a social researcher at the Free University of Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on the psychoanalytic interpretation of literature. From 1979 to 1984 he lived in Munich . There he was part of the editorial team of the Merkur magazine in 1979/80 and of the Transatlantik editorial team in 1980/81 . Since 1985 he lived and worked in Berlin again. From 1985 to 1997 he was editor of the magazine Der everyday life: The sensations of the ordinary and since 1994 its publisher.

As an author, Michael Rutschky developed an original variant of the essay in the 1980s and 1990s by getting fictional but plausible characters to talk. For the essay he also presented insightful reflections on genre theory . In Rutschkys texts go narrative passages and sociological interpretations of the present everyday to connect one - often with comical effect.

Michael Rutschky was a member of the PEN Center Germany. In 1997 Michael Rutschky received the Heinrich Mann Prize ; In 1999 he held the poetics lectureship at Heidelberg University . In 2008/2009 he was a scholarship holder of the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg .

Rutschky was married to the pedagogue and publicist Katharina Rutschky . The couple were the focus of a group of intellectuals, which Stephan Wackwitz compared in 2019 with the group around Stefan George due to its supposedly authoritarian structures .

Michael Rutschky died in 2018 at the age of 74 after a long illness at the Am Urban Clinic in Berlin-Kreuzberg . His estate is in the literary archive of the Akademie der Künste .

Works

Editing

literature

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries in Der Tagesspiegel , published and accessed on March 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Kurt Scheel: Letter to Kohlhammer , accessed on March 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ Berlin author and photographer Michael Rutschky is dead . Kleinezeitung.at , March 18, 2018, accessed on March 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009. Berlin 2019. pp. 44, 133.
  5. ^ Obituaries: Michael Rutschky, 74. In: Der Spiegel 13/2017, March 24, 2018, p. 141.
  6. ↑ Lorenz Jäger : Well, oh yes ... Everyday ethnology as the ideal way to diagnose the times. ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 21, 2013, No. 115, p. 36, beginning of the article.
  7. ↑ Michael Rutschky: We essayists. A self-criticism. In: Journey through Clumsiness. And other masterpieces. Haffmans , Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-251-00157-4 , pp. 199-220; Stephan Wackwitz characterized this text as Rutschky's “essay poetological essay” (Stephan Wackwitz: About Ununderstanding. In: Neue Rundschau 122,3 (2011), pp. 190–205, quotation p. 194).
  8. ^ Stephan Wackwitz: The Rutschky circle . In: The time . August 8, 2019, p. 35 ( waahr.de ).
  9. ^ Jörg Lau: Michael Rutschky: Social criticism without conceit . In: The time . No. 13/2018 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Erhard Schütz: Michael Rutschky: It was drafty in the west too . Review on zeit.de , October 3, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rutschky, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th March 2018
Place of death Berlin