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Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis
The Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis is a literary award in memory of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. The prize is given annually to up to three recipients by the ''Conrad Ferdinand Meyer-Stiftung'' in Zurich. Laureates *1938 Max Frisch *1939 Franz Fischer *1941 Walter Sautter *1942 Kurt Guggenheim *1942 Walter Corti *1954 *1955 Franz Fassbind *1958 *1959 < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Loetscher
Hugo Loetscher (22 December 1929 – 18 August 2009) was a Swiss writer and essayist. Life Loetscher was born and raised in Zürich. He studied philosophy, sociology, and literature at the University of Zürich and the Sorbonne. At Zürich in 1956 he obtained a doctorate with a work called ''Die politische Philosophie in Frankreich nach 1945' (Political Philosophy in France after 1945"). Afterwards, he was literature reviewer for the newspaper ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'' and the magazine ''Weltwoche''. From 1958 to 1962 he was a member of the editorial department of the monthly cultural magazine '' Du'' and founded the literary supplement ''Das Wort''. From 1964 until 1969 he was feuilleton editor and member of the editorial board of the ''Weltwoche''. He next became a freelance writer. In the 1960s, Loetscher worked as a reporter in Latin America with his primary focuses being Cuba and Brazil. Later, he also traveled through Southeast Asia. He was writer in residence in 1979/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürg Amann
Jürg Amann (born in Winterthur on July 2, 1947; died on May 5, 2013 in Zurich) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He has written radio plays, a biography of Robert Walser (writer), Robert Walser, and other works. Awards *1982 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize *1983 Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis Bibliography German * ''Das Symbol Kafka''. Bern 1974 * ''Die Korrektur''. Wien 1977 * ''Hardenberg. Romantische Erzählung nach dem Nachlass des Novalis''. Aarau 1978 * ''Verirren oder Das plötzliche Schweigen des Robert Walser''. Aarau 1978 * ''Die Kunst des wirkungsvollen Abgangs''. Aarau 1979 * ''Die Baumschule. Berichte aus dem Réduit''. München 1982 * ''Büchners Lenz''. Wien 1983 * ''Nachgerufen''. München 1983 * ''Ach, diese Wege sind sehr dunkel''. München 1985. Enthält drei Stücke: ''Ach, diese Wege sind sehr dunkel'', ''Büchners Lenz'', ''Die deutsche Nacht''. * ''Patagonien''. München 1985 * ''Robert Walser. Auf der Suche nach einem verlorenen Sohn''. München 1985; Zürich 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Blatter
Silvio Blatter (born 25 January 1946 in Bremgarten, canton Aargau) is a Swiss writer. Life Silvio Blatter was born into a working-class family. He attended school at the " Bezirksschule"-level in his hometown. From 1962 to 1966, he attended the teacher's seminar in Wettingen, canton Aargau. He worked as a primary school teacher for six years in Aarau, the capital of canton Aargau. In 1970, he worked in a metalworking company. In 1972, Blatter began his college education at the University of Zurich in literature and language studies, matriculating after six semesters. In 1974, he was employed as a machinist in the plastics industry. The following year, he completed training for directors of audio plays at the Swiss Broadcast (Schweizer Radio DRS, part of SRG SSR idée suisse). After long stays in Amsterdam and Husum, Blatter finally settled in Zürich as a freelance writer. Currently, he resides in Oberglatt (canton Zurich). Work Silvio Blatter mostly writes prose. In his early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Meier
Herbert Meier (29 August 1928 – 21 September 2018) was a Swiss writer and translator. Meier studied literature, and philosophy at the universities of , , |
Erika Burkart
Erika Burkart (8 February 1922, Aarau – 14 April 2010) was a Swiss writer and poet. She was the recipient of many awards, among them the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis, the Gottfried-Keller-Preis, the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis, and the Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Preis. She was born in Aarau in 1922 and died in Muri in 2010. Erika Burkart's literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Works Poetry books * ''Der dunkle Vogel'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1953 * ''Sterngefährten'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1955 * ''Bann und Flug'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1956 * ''Geist der Fluren'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1958 * ''Die gerettete Erde'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1960 * ''Mit den Augen der Kore'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1962 * ''Ich lebe'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1964 * ''Die weichenden Ufer'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1967 * ''Fernkristall. Ausgewählte Gedichte'', Verlag an der Hartnau, Tobel (TG) 1972 * ''Die Transparenz der Scherben'', Benziger Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Burger
Hermann Burger (10 July 1942 – 28 February 1989), was a Swiss poet, novelist and essayist. In his creative works Burger often focused on society's lonely outsiders and, increasingly, the inevitability of death. His virtuosity in applying literary styles and use of thorough research are significant features of many of his publications. Life Hermann Burger was born in 1942 in Menziken, Canton of Aargau; his father worked for an insurance company. He enrolled at the ETH Zurich in 1962 and began studying architecture, but switched to German literature and art history in 1964. The publication of the poetry collection " Rauchsignale" ("Smoke Signals") in 1967 marked the beginning of his literary career, followed by the prose collection '' Bork'' in 1970. For the next couple of years Burger focused on his career in literary studies, writing his thesis on Paul Celan and his habilitation treatise on contemporary Swiss literature. He taught at universities in Zurich, Bern and Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Nizon
Paul Nizon (born 19 December 1929 in Bern) is a Swiss art historian and writer. Biography The son of a Russian chemist and a Swiss mother, after leaving school he studied history of art, classical archaeology and German language and literature in the universities of Berne and Munich. He obtained his doctorate in 1957 with a thesis on Vincent van Gogh. He worked as an assistant at the Historisches Museum in Berne until 1959. In 1960, he was awarded a scholarship at the Swiss Institute in Rome. In 1961, he was a leading art critic of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Since 1962 Nizon, who has lived in Paris since 1977, has been a freelance writer. He has held various guest lectureships, including in 1984 in the University of Frankfurt am Main and 1987 in Washington University in St. Louis. Nizon's estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Awards Source: * Gert-Jonke-Preis 2017 * Schweizer Grand Prix Literatur 2014 * Literaturpreis des Kantons Bern 2012 * Austrian State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürg Acklin
Jürg is the name of: * Jürg Amann (1947–2013), Swiss author and dramatist * Jürg Baur (1918–2010), German composer and teacher of classical music * Jürg Berger (born 1954), retired Swiss professional ice hockey forward * Jürg Capol (born 1965), Swiss cross country skier * Jürg Federspiel (1931–2007), Swiss writer * Hans-Jürg Fehr (born 1948), president (2004-) of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland * Jürg Fröhlich (born 1946), Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist * Jürg Kreienbühl (1932–2007), Swiss and French painter * Jürg M. Stauffer (born 1977), Swiss politician * Jürg Studer (born 1966), Swiss football defender * Jürg Wenger Jürg Wenger (born 1969) is a Swiss skeleton racer who competed from 1991 to 2003. He won a gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the 1995 FIBT World Championships in Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, N ... (born 1969), Swiss skeleton racer See also * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Ulrich Lehmann
Hans Ulrich Lehmann (4 May 1937 – 26 January 2013) was a Swiss composer. Education Hans Ulrich Lehmann studied violoncello at the Biel Conservatory in his hometown and music theory with Paul Müller-Zürich at the Zurich University of the Arts. From 1960 to 1963 he attended master classes in composition with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen at the City of Basel Music Academy. He also studied musicology with Kurt von Fischer at the University of Zurich. From 1961 to 1972 he was a lecturer at the City of Basel Music Academy and from 1969 to 1990 lecturer for Neue Musik and music theory at the University of Zurich and from 1990 at the University of Bern. Among his students were Wolfram Schurig, Manuel Hidalgo, Hwang Long Pan, Stefan Keller, Gérard Zinsstag, Alfred Zimmerlin, Mischa Käser, Thomas Gartmann and Max E. Keller. From 1976 to 1998 he was director of the Zurich University of the Arts. From 1983 to 1986 he was president of the Association of Swiss Musicians and fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Brechbühl
Beat, beats or beating may refer to: Common uses * Patrol, or beat, a group of personnel assigned to monitor a specific area ** Beat (police), the territory that a police officer patrols ** Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men * Battery (crime), a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact * Assault, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact * Corporal punishment, punishment intended to cause physical pain * Strike (attack), repeatedly and violently striking a person or object * Victory, success achieved in personal combat, military operations or in any competition People * Beat (name), a German male given name * Jackie Beat, drag persona of Kent Fuher (born 1963) * Aone Beats (born 1984) Nigerian record producer * Billy Beats (1871-1936) British footballer * Cohen Beats (Michael Cohen, born 1986), Israeli record producer * Eno Beats (Enock Kisakye, born 1991), Ugandan record producer * Laxio Beats (Bernard Antwi-Darko, born 1987), Ghanaian record p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Hohler
Franz Hohler (born 1 March 1943) is a Swiss author and cabaret performer based in Zürich. Life Hohler is the author of one-man programs and satirical programs for television and radio. He has written theater pieces, children's books, stories and novels. In 2002, he received the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, in 2005 the Art Prize of Zurich, in 2014 the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis. One of Hohler's most famous works is the "Totemügerli". It's a Swiss-German story based upon a fabulous creature, written to make fun of the particular dialect spoken in the Canton of Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ... by using words sounding like the Bernese dialect but which aren't real words. His collection of witty short stories ''Der Stein'' (2011) features borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Hörler
Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. An alternative but less common variation of ''Rolf'' in Norway is ''Rolv''. The oldest evidence of the use of the name Rolf in Sweden is an inscription from the 11th century on a runestone in Forsheda, Småland. The name also appears twice in the Orkneyinga sagas, where a scion of the jarls of Orkney, Gånge-Rolf, is said to be identical to the Viking Rollo who captured Normandy in 911. This Saga of the Norse begins with the abduction of Gói daughter by a certain Hrolf of Berg, (the Mountain). She is the daughter of Thorri, a Jotun of Gandvik, and sister of Gór and Nór. The latter is regarded as a first king and eponymous anchestor of Nórway. After a fierce duell (Holmgang) where none is able to overcome the other, Hrolf and Nór becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
