Norbert Ruebsaat

Norbert Ruebsaat teaches Media and Communication Studies at Columbia Collage and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver B.C. He publishes regularly in periodicals and newspapers, has produced documentaries for CBC Radio’s Ideas program, and has twice been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards in fiction and creative non-fiction.

A Post Election Rant

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2011 May 18
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Norbert Ruebsaat thinks Stephen Harper is a Dungeons and Dragons politician, and he thinks even less of NDP leader Jack Layton

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Siegfried

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2011 February 1
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Norbert Ruebsaat files another in his series of meditations, this one about the mythical figure of Siegfried, who is more than mere myth to the narrator.

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Heart and Soul (Media Studies)

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2011 January 5
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Norbert Ruebsaat describes a delicate cross-cultural disquisition.

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The World Series

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2010 October 24
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A Propos of the time of year, Norbert Rubesaat uploads the first of a series of connected pieces about growing up German in Canada

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Germans and Indians

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2010 May 26
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Norbert Ruebsaat files a remarkable report on what it’s like to be German amongst the aboriginal and other native peoples on Canada’s West Coast.

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Memoir

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2009 February 4
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Norbert Ruebsaat on fathers and sons.

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Identity

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2008 January 10
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Discussing an old problem in Berlin.

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Berliner Geschichten

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2008 January 6
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Setting out to discover Berlin

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Disciplining Memory

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2007 September 4
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Norbert Ruebsaat revisits two
books and goes to a play.
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Golden Pine

By Norbert Ruebsaat / 2007 May 22
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Norbert Ruebsaat revisits some
books and remembers how reading got started.
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