Volker Rapsch

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Volker Rapsch (born September 29, 1949 in Bremen ) is a German publicist.

Life

Rapsch graduated from the State University of Fine Arts Berlin and studied philosophy and social sciences as well as history at the Free University of Berlin . This was followed by a doctorate with Harry Pross . He worked in advertising, as a design manager, as a freelance writer and most recently as an editor at WDR . For several years he edited works by Vilém Flusser . Together with Andreas Müller-Pohle he ran the Immatrix-Publications publishing house, where, among other things, Flusser's “Die Schrift” came out as an electronic book. Rapsch writes an ironic satirizing web diary with mostly contemporary history and literary subjects.

Fonts

  • Highlights of a career . Frankfurt / Main: RG Fischer, 1984, ISBN 3-88323-506-7
  • Medienkitsch and Flusser's Utopia , in: Harry Pross (ed.): Kitsch. Social and political aspects of a question of taste. Munich: List, 1985 ISBN 3-471-78423-3
  • Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). Six memory sketches , in: Siegfried Zielinski / Daniel Irrgang (eds.): Bottomless - Vilém Flusser and the arts. Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2015 ISBN 978-3-88331-214-9
  • (Ed.) About Flusser. The festival font for the 70th by Vilém Flusser . Düsseldorf: Bollmann, 1990, ISBN 3-927901-04-0
  • (Ed.) Vilém Flusser: Nachgeschichten. Essays, lectures, glosses . Düsseldorf: Bollmann, 1990 ISBN 3-927901-00-8

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personal data
SURNAME Rapsch, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen