Lukas Bärfuss (born 30 December 1971) is a
Swiss
Swiss may refer to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
*Swiss, North Carolina
* Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
* Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internati ...
writer and playwright who writes in German. He won the
Georg Büchner Prize
The Georg Büchner Prize (german: link=no, Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize for German language literature, along with the Goethe Prize. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of ''Woyzeck ...
in 2019.
Biography
Born in Thun, Switzerland in 1971, Lukas Bärfuss began training as a bookseller after graduating from high school.
In 1998, he co-founded the independent theater group 400asa.
Awards
Bärfuss has won the
Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis ("dramatist award of Mülheim"), founded in 1976, is one of the leading theater awards in Germany. It is awarded by an open jury of theater professionals, critics and playwrights who watch a short list of productions du ...
in 2005 for the play ''Der Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen)'', the
Anna Seghers-Preis in 2008,
the
Hans Fallada Prize
The Hans Fallada Prize is a German literary prize given by the city of Neumünster in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1981 it typically awarded every two years to a young author from the German-speaking world. It is named in honor of ...
in 2010,
the
Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2014,
the
Swiss Book Prize (german: link=no, Schweizer Buchpreis) in 2014 for ''Koala'',
the
Nicolas Born Prize in 2015 and the
Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 2016.
In 2019, he was awarded the
Georg Büchner Prize
The Georg Büchner Prize (german: link=no, Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize for German language literature, along with the Goethe Prize. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of ''Woyzeck ...
for his dramas, novels and essays.
The
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstad ...
praised his work, among other things, as being permeated by "a high degree of stylistic certainty and formal richness of variation" that explores "always anew and differently fundamental existential situations of modern life." The prize was awarded in Darmstadt on November 2, 2019. The Georg Büchner Prize is regarded as the most prestigious prize in German literature. Bärfuss was the fourth Swiss to win the Prize and the first Swiss winner in 25 years, the last Swiss winner being
Adolf Muschg in 1994.
Memberships
Bärfuss has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since early summer 2015.
Works
Plays
* ''Sophokles' Ödipus'' (1998)
* ''Siebzehn Uhr Siebzehn'' (2000)
* ''74 Sekunden'' (2000)
* ''Vier Frauen'' (2000)
* ''Die Reise von Klaus und Edith durch den Schacht zum Mittelpunkt der Erde'' (2001)
* ''Meienbergs Tod'' (2001)
* ''Vier Bilder der Liebe'' (2002)
* ''Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern'' (2003)
* ''Der Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen)'' (2005)
* ''Alices Reise in die Schweiz'' (2005)
* ''
Die Probe (Der brave Simon Korach)'' (2007)
* ''Amygdala'' (2009)
* ''Öl'' (2009)
* ''Malaga'' (2010)
* ''Zwanzigtausend Seiten'' (2012)
* ''Die schwarze Halle'' (2013)
* ''Frau Schmitz'' (2016)
* ''Der Elefantengeist'' (2018)
* '' Julien – Rot und Schwarz'' (2020)
Books
*
*
**
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
References
External links
*
1971 births
Living people
Swiss writers
Canton of Bern
People from Thun
Georg Büchner Prize winners
Swiss male novelists
21st-century Swiss novelists
Swiss dramatists and playwrights
Swiss Book Prize winners
Members of the German Academy for Language and Literature
{{Switzerland-writer-stub