Michael Rutschky (born 25 May 1943 in Berlin) is a German author.
Michael Rutschky grew up in Spangenberg, Hesse. From 1963 to 1971, he studied Sociology, Literary Science and Philosophy at the Universities Frankfurt am Main (amongst others under Theodor W. Adorno and Jurgen Habermas), Gottingen and FU Berlin. From 1969 to 1978, he worked as a social researcher at the Freie Universitat Berlin; he would attain a Doctorate there as a Doctor of Philosophy. From 1979 to 1984, he lived in Munich. There he belonged to the Editing of the periodical Merkur and the editor of the TransAtlantik in 1980/81. Since 1985, he again works and lives in Berlin. From 1985 to 1997, he was contributing editor to the periodical Der Alltag.
Michael Rutschky is a writer of essays in whose Narrative passages and sociological interpretation of the everyday present enter into an original mixture and a comical work not seldom produced.
Michael Rutschky is a member of the PEN Zentrums Deutschland. He received the 1997 Heinrich Mann Prize; in 1999 he held the poetic dozent of the University of Heidelberg. He is Scholar at the Internationales Kunstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg.
He was married to the educationalist and publisher Katharina Rutschky until her death in January 2010.
Schuler im Literaturunterricht (Students in the Literary Teaching), Cologne 1975 (together with Hartmut Eggert and Hans Christoph Berg)
Studien zur psychoanalytischen Interpretation von Literatur (Studies of the Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Literature), Berlin 1978
Erfahrungshunger (Experience Hunger), Cologne 1980
Lekture der Seele (Lectures of the Soul), Frankfurt am Main [et al.] 1981
Wartezeit (Waiting Time), Cologne 1983
Zur Ethnographie des Inlands (Of the Demographics of the Home Country), Frankfurt am Main 1984
Auf Reisen (From Trips), Frankfurt am Main 1986
Was man zum Leben wissen mus (What one must know to live), Zurich 1987
Thomas – mach ein Bild von uns! (Thomas - make a Picture of us!), Munchen [et al.] 1988 (together with Thomas Karsten and Peter Brasch)
Reise durch das Ungeschick und andere Meisterstucke (Trips through the Awkward and other Mater Pieces), Zurich 1990
Mit Dr. Siebert in Amerika (With Dr. Siebert in America), Zurich [et al.] 1991
Traumnachrichten (Dream News), Hersbruck 1991
Unterwegs im Beitrittsgebiet (Away in the Member Area), Gottingen 1994
Die Meinungsfreude (The Opinion's Friends), Gottingen 1997
Der verborgene Brecht (The Hidden Break), Zurich [et al.] 1997 (together with Juergen Teller)
Lebensromane (Life Novels), Gottingen 1998
Berlin, Berlin 2001
Wie wir Amerikaner wurden (How we became American), Munchen 2004
Errungenschaften (Achievements), Frankfurt am Main 1982
Ein Jahresbericht (The Yearly Report), Frankfurt am Main 1983
Tag fur Tag (Day for Day), Frankfurt am Main 1984
Die andere Chronik (The Other Chronicle) 1987, Cologne 1987
