John Berger

John Berger ( born November 5, 1926 in Stoke Newington, County of London) is a British writer, painter and art critic and Booker Prize winner.

Life

After studying art at the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London, he began a career as a painter. 1948-1955 he worked as a teacher. At the same time, he wrote art criticism, artists' biographies and essays on art. In the 1950s he was active in the peace movement Artists For Peace. In the 1970s, he worked with director Alain Tanner and wrote the screenplays for several films. With its developing novel G., on which he had worked five years, he won the Booker Prize in 1972 surprising. As Berger donated half of the prize money to the Black Panther Party, was a scandal. Then Berger left England and moved to Savoy in France in a mountain village, where he still lives today. In addition to his literary work Berger wrote a number of art historical texts and reviews.

In December 2006, Berger joined a boycott call ( for the area of culture and science ) against the Israeli occupation to the international public. He wants to know the boycott " tactical " understood; that is to say for himself, he refuses to be published by a major mainstream publisher in Israel. He intended to build the state of Israel meet, but do not prevent contact with the individual in Israel.

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Works

Novels

  • A Painter of Our Time. 1958, 1989 [ dt u.d.T.: The Games. Leipzig 1991 ( Reclam Library 1408 ) ]
  • G. 1972. G. is an experimental novel, steeped in various discursive levels. The novel dealt with the don Juan myth (G. = Giovanni Don Giovanni Don Juan = ) and is characterized as G. existential hero who goes against the prevailing order.
  • SauErde. Stories from the land. 1982
  • Play me a song. 1988
  • Lilac and Flag. 1991
  • On the way to the wedding. 1996
  • King. In 1999. Kaleidoscopic novel that resolves temporal and spatial conditions and the plight of people who drop out of the social order addressed. It remains open whether the narrator King is really a dog or a run-down man.
  • A and X. A Love Story in Letters, translated from English by Hans Jürgen Balmes; Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-446-23395-9

Essays

  • Encounters and farewells. In 1991.
  • And our faces, my heart, ephemeral as photos. In 1992.
  • With Jean Mohr: history of a country doctor. In 1998.
  • With Jean Mohr: Another way to tell. 1982 /2000.
  • Against the devaluation of the world., 2001.
  • With hope between the teeth. Reports of survival and resistance., 2007.
  • Bentos sketchbook. 2013

Stories

  • Once in Europe, translated from English by Jörg Trobitius. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2000 ISBN 978-3-446-19818-0
  • Here, where we meet, translated from English by Hans Jürgen Balmes. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2006 ISBN 978-3-446-20655-7

Art historical writings

  • Albrecht Dürer - watercolors and drawings. Cologne 1993
  • The work of art. Berlin 1992
  • The life of the images or the art of seeing. Berlin 1981 11th edition. Wagenbach, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8031-1114-2.
  • Watch. reinbek 1974
  • Splendor and misery of the painter Pablo Picasso. reinbek 1973
  • Fernand Léger. Dresden 1967
  • Guttuso. Dresden 1957

Social Critical Literature

  • With Jean Mohr: labor migrants. Experiences, pictures, analysis. reinbek 1976

Plays

  • Francisco Goya - the last portrait. Ostfildern 1995
  • The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol

Screenplays

  • The salamander. 1971st Directed by Alain Tanner
  • The center of the world. 1974th Directed by Alain Tanner
  • Jonas, who will be 25 years old in 2000. 1976th Directed by Alain Tanner
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