Reiner Stach
German-language author, biographer, publicist, and publisher
About Reiner Stach
Born 1951. Reiner Stach is a German opinion journalist, editor, biographer, literary editor, non-fiction writer and literary scholar.
Reiner Stach (born 1951) is a German author, biographer of Franz Kafka, publisher, and publicist. Stach lives and works as a freelancer in Berlin.
Early life and education Stach was born in Rochlitz, Saxony. At age 17, he left home due to familial conflicts. He studied philosophy, literature, and mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Stach graduated in 1985 with a PhD. His dissertation was titled Kafkas erotischer Mythos. Eine ästhetische Konstruktion des Weiblichen (Kafka's erotic myth. An aesthetic construction of femininity). The trilogy has been described as "massive" and going "into painstaking detail".
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German-language author, biographer, publicist, and publisher
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Reiner Stach was born in 1951 in Rochlitz.
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Reiner Stach is an opinion journalist, editor, biographer, literary editor, non-fiction writer and literary scholar.
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Reiner Stach is German.
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