Michael Rutschky grew up in
Spangenberg,
Hesse. From 1963 to 1971, he
studied Sociology,
Literature and
Philosophy at
Frankfurt am Main (under
Theodor W. Adorno,
Jürgen Habermas and others),
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. ==Works==