Rainer Kloubert

Rainer Kloubert (* 1944 in Aachen ) is a German writer and sinologist .

Life

Kloubert studied law and sinology in Freiburg , Tübingen , Hong Kong and Taiwan .

He went to the Republic of China in the 1970s , where he worked a. a. as a language teacher at the military academy in Taiwan , was an interpreter for a Chinese traveling circus and a lawyer in Taipei . In 1979 he moved to Beijing in the People's Republic of China , where he initially worked as a university lecturer and then as a representative of a German company (Deutz AG | KHD). The sinologist, who was married to a Chinese woman, found his way in industry. He was so successful that he became head of Bosch for China in 1993 . In 2001, after quarrels about the right strategy for China, he left and became a writer. Kloubert processed his experiences in the novel Der Quereinsteiger , a biting moral painting by German managers and their sometimes comical attempts to find their way in China.

In addition to poems and stories, his literary publications also include novels. In 2007, a moral report from ancient China was published by Elfenbein Verlag with Grosbeak and Crossbeak . His first historical novel, Roon's Last Flight (2009), tells a story from Shanghai in the years before the First World War.

With Peitaiho , Yuanmingyuan and Beijing , Kloubert has presented a large-scale China trilogy that pursues an approach reminiscent of CW Ceram's gods, graves and scholars , to present recent Chinese history through archaeological finds and the "stories" passed down about them in an entertaining narrative tone. The historian Jürgen Osterhammel wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about this highly acclaimed project, Kloubert's books his "pioneering act and reading pleasure".

His most recent volume of short stories Vom flying Robert brings together stories from the Far East from around 1900 based on actual events and historical figures as the starting point for the individual stories.

Works

• Suicide without a hat. Thirteen Shanghai-Moritaten , Elfenbein Verlag, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 978-3-932245-23-7
• Manchurian escapes . Roman, Elfenbein Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 978-3-932245-33-6
• The career changer . Roman, Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2003 (3rd edition 2004), ISBN 978-3-932245-61-9
• Grosbeak and Crossbeak. A moral picture from old Beijing , Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-932245-81-7
• Employees . Roman, Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-932245-91-6
• Roon's last flight . Roman, Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941184-00-8
• Peitaiho . Large Chinese rarity box . With footnotes, Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-941184-12-1
• Yuanmingyuan. Traces of destruction , Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941184-20-6
• Beijing. Lost City , Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-941184-51-0
• From the flying Robert. Thirty-one stories from the Far East , Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96160-000-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Kloubert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief portrait on histo-couch.de
• Short portrait with picture on xiucai.oai.de ​​(page 2)
• Rainer Kloubert on perlentaucher.de
• Rainer Kloubert at Elfenbein Verlag (Berlin)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arno Widmann : A steppe fire can arise from a spark , Interview, Frankfurter Rundschau , February 1, 2014, p. 34f
2. ↑ Jürgen Osterhammel : Come to the old park and look , review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 6, 2013, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensions/sachbuch/rainer-kloubert-peitaiho-und -yuanmingyuan-come-to-the-old-park-and-look-12599639.html
3. ↑ Brief description of The career changer ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ blurb