Rainer Gerlach (journalist)

Rainer Gerlach (2011)

Rainer Gerlach (born February 13, 1951 in Meine , Gifhorn district) is a German journalist, PR consultant, author and lecturer.

Life

Gerlach grew up as the only child of Kurt and Charlotte Gerlach in Meine and later in Braunschweig. Between 1974 and 1980 he studied German and history for the higher teaching post at the University of Göttingen . Later doctorate to Dr. phil. at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on Peter Weiss . He is the father of two daughters and lives with his wife, speech therapist Heidrun Gerlach, in Aschaffenburg .

After graduating, he worked in the communications industry for more than two decades as an editor, copywriter, advertising manager, PR manager and owner of an advertising agency. In addition to numerous book publications, he has mainly dealt with the German-language literature of the 20th century in essays, reviews, radio reports and lexicon articles (" Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature " and " Kindler's Literature Lexicon ") ( Franz Kafka , Arno Schmidt , Joachim Ringelnatz , Peter Altenberg etc.). He is a profound expert on the work of Peter Weiss and a member of the International Peter Weiss Society . Since 2008 he has also worked as a ghostwriter and teacher.

Publications (selection)

• Otto Lilienthal: The bird flight as the basis of the art of flying, ed. by Rainer Gerlach, Dortmund 1982
• Heinrich Schliemann: Troy, ed. by Rainer Gerlach, Dortmund 1984
• Peter Weiss. Materials for his work, ed. by Rainer Gerlach, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag 1984
• Uwe Johnson . Materials for his work, ed. by Rainer Gerlach and Matthias Richter, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag 1984
• Peter Weiss, Thinking in Opposites. A reading book, ed. by Rainer Gerlach and Matthias Richter, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag 1986, paperback edition 1988
• Peter Weiss in conversation, ed. by Rainer Gerlach and Matthias Richter, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag 1986 ISBN 3-518-11303-8
• Aschaffenburg. Past and present of a southern German city, Aschaffenburg 1993, second edition 1998

• The importance of the Suhrkamp Verlag for the work of Peter Weiss; Art and society. Studies on culture in the 20th and 21st centuries Volume 1 Röhrig Universitätsverlag St. Ingbert 2005 ISBN 3-86110-375-3
• The correspondence Siegfried Unseld Peter Weiss; Suhrkamp Frankfurt am Main 2007; Edited by Rainer Gerlach ISBN 3-518-41845-9 , ( Online )
• The Copenhagen Journal. Critical edition; ed. by Rainer Gerlach u. Jürgen Schutte Wallsteinverlag Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-8353-0071-7 , ( online )
• The book of books by Peter Altenberg; ed. by Rainer Gerlach; Wallstein Verlag Göttingen 2009, ISBN 3-8353-0409-7 , ( online )
• This side and beyond the border. Peter Weiss - Manfred Haiduk. The correspondence 1965-1982; ed. by Rainer Gerlach and Jürgen Schutte; Röhrig University Press St. Ingbert 2010 ISBN 978-3-86110-478-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Gerlach in the catalog of the German National Library