Fritz Angst

Fritz Zorn, pseudonym of Fritz Angst ( born April 10, 1944 in Miles, Canton Zurich, † November 2, 1976 in Zurich ) was a Swiss teacher and became a well-known writers of the eighties movement.

Life

Zorn studied German and Romance Languages ​​at the University of Zurich and was then for a short time high school teacher. He became famous for his posthumously published in 1977 records Mars, where he continues his cancer (malignant lymphoma), which forced him to give up his profession to a relentless reckoning with the Swiss- bourgeois environment relationship. All his life he suffered from his inability to love and bitterly experienced severe depression. The book was because of his radicalism and at the time of publication on the life of the protesting youth matching rebellious diction to a cult book of the 1980s. Died in 1976 and Fritz Zorn in Zurich at the age of 32 years.

Mars

Fritz Zorn describes in the autobiographical book Mars (too ) late, disease triggered shock at a thirty -year " unlived " own life. His illness he seeks to interpret in a psychosomatic sense, but also as a symptom of the whole social organism infesting degeneration process. In the face of approaching death, he realizes that " behind " almost everything " went wrong ", despite its both sheltered and cold - strict childhood in a wealthy, upper-class family at the Zurich Gold Coast and behind the facade of its rectilinear professional career for the man.

Quote

" The literary production of the seventies inaugurated relationship disability, partnership problems, living alone as a central theme of the monologue subject ( ... ) the modern, narrative literature of Max Frisch to Fritz Zorn is a . "

Work

• Mars. "I 'm young and rich and formed; and I 'm unhappy, neurotic and alone ... " With a foreword by Adolf Muschg. Kindler, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-463-00693-6. Paperback edition: Mars. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-22202-8.