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Stephan Reimertz | |
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| Born | (1962-03-04)4 March 1962 (age 63) Aachen,West Germany |
| Resting place | Paris |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, art historian |
| Language | German, French |
| Alma mater | LMU Munich, Free University of Berlin |
| Genre | Poems, novels, biographies |
| Notable works | Papiergewicht Eine Liebe im Porträt Max Beckmann |
Stephan Reimertz (born 4 March 1962) is a Germanpoet,essayist,novelist andart historian.
Born inAachen, West Germany, Reimertz is the grandnephew ofNikolaus Groß, resistance fighter in the20th July plot against Hitler. His grandfather was a democratic major and politician fromWestphalia. His father was a mining engineer and met his mother atRWTH Aachen; she was a pharmacist fromRiga and ofBaltic German ethnicity. Reimertz was raised at his grandmothers in the medieval village ofNiederwenigern on the Ruhr Peninsula, later attended school inKronberg, where he joined the Catholic Boy Scouts.
A grantee of theGerman National Merit Foundation, theGerman Academic Exchange Service, etc., Reimertz went to college atLMU Munich and graduated with an MA in comparative literature and a doctorate in art history and philosophy fromFU Berlin. He has taught atJuniata College inHuntingdon, Pennsylvania, and was aFulbright grantee atUniversity of Texas at Austin, and a research fellow atWashington University in St. Louis. Reimertz dedicated a monograph toWoody Allen and the American cinema.
In art history, Reimertz followedHans 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 artistMax 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 artistMinna Tube, a painter who became a celebrated mezzo-soprano after her husbandMax Beckmann had banned her from painting. Reimertz set up a new style ofRealroman ("reality novel"), using only authentic quotations and composing them in an artistic narrative structure, thus combining the French tradition ofbiographie romancée with the German classical forms ofKünstlerroman andBildungsroman.
In 2001, Stephan Reimertz authoredPapiergewicht ("Paper Weight"), an autobiographical novel set in a decadent upper-class family, reflecting the social changes of the early Seventies.
The books he has written are:[1]
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