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.

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.

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.

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