Michael Rutschky

Michael Rutschky was a German author.

Life

Michael Rutschky grew up in Spangenberg, Hesse. From 1963 to 1971, he studied Sociology, Literature and Philosophy at Frankfurt am Main, Göttingen and Freie Universität Berlin. From 1969 to 1978, he worked as a social researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, where he earned a doctorate. From 1979 to 1984, he lived in Munich, where he was an editor of Merkur and TransAtlantik. In 1985 he moved back to Berlin. From 1985 to 1997, he was contributing editor to the periodical Der Alltag.
Michael Rutschky wrote essays with an original mixture of narrative passages and sociological interpretation of the everyday, often to comical effect.
Michael Rutschky was a member of the German PEN center. He received the 1997 Heinrich Mann Prize; in 1999 he held was the visiting poetics lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. He was a visiting scholar at the Villa Concordia in Bamberg.
He was married to the educationalist and publisher Katharina Rutschky until her death in January 2010.