Stephan Reimertz
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Stephan Reimertz (* 4th March 1962 in Aachen, Germany) is an art historian and novelist of Swedish and Baltic German origin. He lives in Paris.
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[edit] Life
Reimertz was educated in France and Germany. He received a doctorate in art history and subsequently travelled to Italy and other countries. Besides working in media and commerce, he taught at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and was a research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.
[edit] Works
Reimertz wrote biographies of the artist Max Beckmann, the painter and singer Minna Tube, and the film director Woody Allen, as well as a cultural history of tea. In 2001, he authored ’Papiergewicht’ (“Paper Weight”), a novel on the social changes of the early Seventies, set in a German upper-class family. The novel features the 1971 New York fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the so-called Fight of the Century.
[edit] Selected Bibliography
- Papiergeiwcht, novel. 2001
- Max Beckmann, biography, 2003
- Woody Allen, 2000, updated 2005
