Iso Camartin

Iso Camartin ( born March 24, 1944 in Chur ) is a Swiss journalist, writer and television presenter.

Life

Iso Camartin grew up in Disentis, where he attended the convent school. From 1965 he studied Philosophy and Romance in Munich, Bologna and Regensburg; he received his doctorate in 1971 on Kant and Fichte. From 1974 to 1977 he worked as a Research Fellow at the " Center for European Studies " at Harvard University. In addition to his journalistic work, he held teaching positions at various Swiss universities.

From 1985 to 1997 he was Professor of Romansh literature and culture at the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. In the academic year 1989/1990 Carmartin Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. Between 1996 and 1998 he was also a presenter of Auspicious Art on SF 1 From 2000 to 2003 he headed the Department of Culture, Swiss Television. Since then he has worked as a freelance publicist and writer. In 2005 he gave the opening speech for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt.

Iso Camartin is a member of DASD and the Writers' Association authors of Switzerland. He lives in Zurich.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Kant Schematismuslehre and their transformation in the early spruce. For the forming of identity thinking. Thesis, Regensburg 1971.
  • ( Along with Robert H. Meier cheap ): land and people of Romansh. A cultural and linguistic history. Huber, Frauenfeld 1983.
  • Nothing but words? A plea for small languages. Artemis, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7608-0656-2.
  • Praise of seduction. Essays on the sag. Artemis, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-7608-0731-3.
  • Caroms. Stories and glosses. Artemis, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7608-1046-2.
  • Viewed from Sils -Maria from. Views from the roof of Europe. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40387-7.
  • The library of Pila. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40646-9.
  • Carnation and Caruso. About dogs. A romance ( with Verena Aufferman ). Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8270-0236-2.
  • The devil on the column. 52 flash stories. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3- 518-40959 -X.
  • Grazie service. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41036-9.
  • Lean out. Stories, commentaries. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39571-8.
  • Everyone needs its south. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-41446-1.
  • Belvedere. The beautiful TV. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3- 518-41688 -X.
  • I am European? A suitability. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-55071-3.
  • The stories of the Lord Caspari. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57036-0.
  • Switzerland ( series The Germans and their neighbors). CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57856-4.
  • In the Garden of Friendship. A search for clues. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62158-1.
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