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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 Zürich. Laureates *1938 Max Frisch *1939 Franz Fischer (sculptor), Franz Fischer *1941 Walter Sautter *1942 Kurt Guggenheim *1942 Walter Corti *1954 Hans Boesch *1955 Franz Fassbind *1958 Erwin Jaeckle *1959 Karl Jakob Wegmann *1960 Raffael Ganz *1961 Erika Burkart *1964 Herbert Meier *1966 Hugo Loetscher *1967 Werner Weber (journalist), Werner Weber *1968 Adolf Muschg, Franz Hohler *1970 Gerold Späth *1972 Paul Nizon, Jürg Acklin *1973 Hans Ulrich Lehmann *1974 Silvio Blatter *1975 Beat Brechbühl *1976 Rolf Hörler *1979 Alice Vollenweider *1980 Hermann Burger, Franz Böni, Werner Bodinek *1981 Jürg Altherr *1983 Jürg Amann *1984 Hansjörg Schertenleib *1985 Emil Zopfi *1986 André Grab *1987 Hanna Johansen, Martin Hamburger *1988 Iso Camartin *1989 Christoph Rütimann *1991 Rita Ernst, ... [...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 University of Paris, 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 (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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Burkart
Erika Burkart (8 February 1922 – 14 April 2010) was a Swiss writer, teacher and poet. She wrote poems and epic poems, and received international recognition. Burkart 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 also awarded the Grand Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation, the only woman to have received the prize. Life Erika Burkart was born on 8 February 1922 in Aarau, and spent much of her life in Aristau. She trained as a primary school teacher, and taught in a number of schools before becoming a full-time writer in 1955. Burkart wrote twenty four collections of poetry over her life. Her debut poetry collection, ''Der dunkle Vogel'' (The Dark Bird), was published in 1953. Some of Burkart's poems were set to music by Rudolf Kelterborn and Gottfried von Einem. Burkart also wrote eight prose works, which achieved international recognitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürg Amann
Jürg Amann (born in Winterthur on 2 July 1947; died on 5 May 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 , , |
Hermann Burger
Hermann Burger (10 July 1942 – 28 February 1989) was a Swiss people, 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, Switzerland; 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 (literary 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 universiti ... [...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 Jewish chemist from Vitebsk and a Swiss mother, after leaving school he studied history of art, classical archaeology and German language and literature in the universities of Bern 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 Bern 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. Selected bibliography * ''Die gleitenden Plätze'' (1959) * ''Canto'' (Suhrkamp, 1963) * ''Diskurs in der Enge'' (1970 ... [...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 (2004-2008) 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, ... (born 1969), Swiss skeleton racer See also * {{disambigua ... [...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 * Assault, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact * Battery (crime), a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact * Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact * Corporal punishment, punishment intended to cause physical pain * 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 * Strike (attack), repeatedly and violently striking a person or object * Victory, success achieved in personal combat, military operations or in any competition *Beating (hunt), driving game out of areas of cover during a hunt Arts, entertainment and media Fictional characters * Beat, an anthro fox in the animated series " Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori" * Beat, in the video game ''Eternal Sonata'' * Beat, in the video game ''Jet Set Radio'' ... [...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 1993, he narrated the Swiss documentary film, '' Der Kongress der Pinguine''. 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 Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has gov ... by using words sounding like the Bernese dialect but which aren't real ... [...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] |
