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Stephan Reimertz (born 4 March 1962) is a German poet, essayist, novelist and art historian.

Stephan Reimertz
Born (1962-03-04) 4 March 1962 (age 60)
Aachen, Germany
OccupationPoet, writer, art historian
GenrePoems, novels, biographies
Notable worksPapiergewicht
Eine Liebe im Porträt
Max Beckmann

Life


Born in Aachen, Germany, Reimertz is the grandnephew of Nikolaus Groß, resistance fighter in the 20th July plot against Hitler. His grandfather was a democratic major and politician from Westphalia. His father was a mining engineer and met his mother at RWTH Aachen; she was a pharmacist from Riga and of Baltic German ethnicity. Reimertz was raised at his grandmothers in the medieval village of Niederwenigern on the Ruhr Peninsula, later attended school in Kronberg, t where he received an intense artistic and musical training with Sergiu Celibidache.

Ernst Jünger and Stephan Reimertz
Ernst Jünger and Stephan Reimertz

A grantee of the German National Merit Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, etc., Reimertz went to college at LMU Munich and graduated with an MA in comparative literature and a doctorate in art history and philosophy from FU Berlin. He has taught at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and was a Fulbright grantee at University of Texas at Austin, and a research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Reimertz dedicated a monograph to Woody Allen and the American cinema.


Works


In art history, Reimertz followed Hans Sedlmayr’s method of structural analysis (Strukturanalyse), calling on the discipline of art history to move past empirical research and reveal the aesthetic nature of the artwork. His monograph on the German artist Max Beckmann connects structural analysis with a cultural historiographic narrative and is considered a benchmark in modern art history.

Reimertz’s first novel, Eine Liebe im Portrait ("A Love in Portraiture"), was released in 1996, featuring the fate of the artist Minna Tube, a painter who became a celebrated mezzo-soprano after her husband Max Beckmann had banned her from painting. Reimertz set up a new style of Realroman ("reality novel"), using only authentic quotations and composing them in an artistic narrative structure, thus combining the French tradition of biographie romancée with the German classical forms of Künstlerroman and Bildungsroman.

In 2001, Stephan Reimertz authored Papiergewicht ("Paper Weight"), an autobiographical novel set in a decadent upper-class family, reflecting the social changes of the early Seventies.


Selected bibliography


The books he has written are:[1]


Novels



Non Fiction



References


  1. WorldCat summary page



На других языках


[de] Stephan Reimertz

Stephan Reimertz (* 4. März 1962 in Aachen) ist ein Lyriker, Essayist, Romancier und Kunsthistoriker. Er lebt in Paris. Reimertz wurde mit einer Arbeit über den Maler Max Beckmann promoviert, lehrte und forschte in den USA und arbeitete in Medien und Wirtschaft. Daneben schrieb er einige vielgelesene Biographien und legte 2001 den Roman Papiergewicht vor, der die gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche der 1970er Jahre am Beispiel einer westdeutschen Unternehmerfamilie schildert.
- [en] Stephan Reimertz



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