Lothar Baier (16 May 1942 – 11 July 2004) was a German

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, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical

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. Baier was born in

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. He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the

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World and was recognized with the 1982

Jean Améry Jean Améry (31 October 191217 October 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. His most celebrated work, ''At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survi ...

Prize for Essayists and with the 2003 Gerrit Engelke Prize. Baier published amongst others in the ''

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'', in the ''

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'' and in the

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and was for many years the editor of the Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ) in Zürich. On 11 July 2004, Baier committed

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, Canada.

Works

*''Über

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''. Editor, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1972 *''Französischen Zustände. Berichte und Essays'' (French State. Reports and Essays). Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1982. *''Jahrsfrist''. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag 1985 *''Firma Frankreich. Eine Betriebsbesichtigung'' (Company France. A Business Report). Berlin: Wagenbach 1988. *''Gleichheitszeichen. Streitschriften über Abweichung und Identität'' (Identical Signs. Argumentative Writing about Allowance and Identity). Berlin: Wagenbach 1985. *''Un allemand né de la dernière guerre. essai''. Paris: Calmann-Lévy 1989. *''Volk ohne Zeit. Essay über das eilige Vaterland'' (People without Time. Essay about a Hurried Fatherland). Berlin: Wagenbach 1990. *''Zeichen und Wunder. Kritiken und Essays'' (Signs and Wonder. Critiques and Essays). Berlin: Ed. Tiamat 1990. *''Die große Ketzerei. Verfolgung und Ausrottung der Katharer durch Kirche und Wissenschaft'' (The Great Heresy. Persecution and Extermination through Church and Science). Berlin: Wagenbach 1991. * "Farewell to Regionalism". ''

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'' 90 (Winter 1991-2). New York
Telos Press
*''Christoph Hein. Texte, Daten, Bilder'' (Christoph Hein. Texts, Dates, Pictures). Editor, Frankfurt am Main: Luchterhand 1990. *''Die verleugnete Utopie. Zeitkritische Texte'' (The Denied Utopia. Time Critical Texts). Berlin: Aufbau 1993. *''Ostwestpassagen. Kulturwandel – Sprachzeiten'' (East West Passages. Cultural Change – Language Times). München: Antje Kunstmann 1995. *''Keine Zeit. 18 Versuche über die Beschleunigung'' (No Time. 18 Attempts at Acceleration). München: Antje Kunstmann 2000. *''Anders schreibendes Amerika. Eine Anthologie der Literatur aus Quebec 1945 – 2000'' (Other Literary America. An anthology of the Literature from Quebec 1945–2000). Editors Lothar Baier and Pierre Filion. Heidelberg: Verlag Wunderhorn 2000. *''Was wird Literatur?'' (What becomes Literature?) München: Antje Kunstmann 2001

External links

Literature by and on Lothar Baier
in the Catalog of the

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Short Biography

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''In einer anderen Welt'' (In another World)
Obituary in the WOZ by

Susan Boos Susan Boos (born 1963, Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss journalist and publicist. Since 2005, she is the editor-in-chief of WOZ Die Wochenzeitung. Since 2021 she has been the president of the Swiss Press Council. Life Boos grew up in St. Gall ...

Obituary in the Freitag by

Erich Hackl Erich Hackl (born 26 May 1954 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Czech and Hebrew though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking w ...

''Ein Schweigen aus Montreal'' (A Silence from Montreal)
Obituary in the WOZ by

Stefan Keller Stefan Keller (born 1961) is a Swiss classical and jazz flute player and composer. He plays all kind of flutes like Quartertone, Glissando, Bebe, alto flute, and bass flute. Most unusual is his contrabass flute The contrabass flute is one of t ...

''Einen Meister verloren'' (A Master Left)
Obituary in the WOZ by

Paul Parin Paul Parin (20 September 1916 – 18 May 2009) was a Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist. He was born in Polzela (german: Heilenstein), near Celje, Slovenia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a family of assimilated Jew ...

''In Kants Republik'' (In Kant's Republic)
Obituary in the WOZ by Manfred Züfle
''Die Flucht des Buchstabenmenschen: Zum Tod Lothar Baiers'' (The Flight of the Lettered People: On Lothar Baier's Death
Obituary in the WELT from July 15, 2004

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