Klaus Merz

Klaus Merz ( born October 3, 1945 in Aarau ) is a Swiss writer.

Life

After secondary school teacher diploma Merz, interrupted taught by longer stays abroad, a lecturer in language and culture at a higher technical school. In 1967 he debuted with the poetry collected with blindness. Since then, he has more than twenty publications with poems, short stories, short novels and essays, especially to the fine arts, published; in addition, he also plays, television screenplays, theatrical works and children's books written. Since 1994, his works appear mainly in Innsbruck Haymon Verlag, the book covers are designed by Heinz Egger.

Since 2011, a scale of 7 volumes work output, which is managed by the literary scholar and author Markus Bundi appear at Haymon.

2007 awarded him the Zurich Museum of Literature Strauhof with the exhibition " The breastfed View - The writer Klaus Merz and images ".

In 2003 he published the collected works of his disabled brother Martin Merz ( 1950-1983 ) at Haymon under the title Between land.

Klaus Merz was a member of the group Olten and its president from 1995 to 1997. He now works as a freelance writer in Unterkulm.

" Merz convinced to formulate as a poet and as the narrator thanks to his gift as easily as short and precise - an ability that we only very few authors find ", held the jury chairman Jochen Hieber in the press release of the Frankfurter Allgemeine FAZ Hölderlin prize 2012 fixed.

Awards (selection)

Works

Single

  • With collective blindness. Poems. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1967
  • Attachments - my country. Poems. Sauerland, Aarau 1969
  • Four excuses not give a house. Poems. Artemis, Zurich 1972
  • Mandatory exercise. Stories. Sauerland, Aarau 1975
  • Latent material. Narratives. Sauerland, Aarau 1978
  • The draft. Narrative. Author Edition, Munich 1982
  • Country life. Stories. Howeg, Zurich 1982
  • Boat rental. Prose poems. Howeg, Zurich 1985
  • Tremolo debris. Narratives. Ammann, Zurich 1988
  • Message from the upright. Prose poems. Howeg, Zurich 1991
  • Brief announcement. Poetry & prose. Postscript by Werner Morlang. Haymon, Innsbruck 1995, ISBN 3-85218-196-8
  • Jacob sleeps. Actually a novel. Afterword by Peter von Matt. Haymon, Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 3-85218-229-8; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-16907-0
  • Come with me to the sea, Miss? Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-85218-270-0
  • Yarn. Prose and poetry. Haymon, Innsbruck 2000, ISBN 3-85218-324-3
  • Adams costume. Three stories. Haymon, Innsbruck 2001, ISBN 3-85218-361-8
  • The tournament of knights pencil. Eighteen encounters. Afterword by Markus Kutter. Haymon, Innsbruck 2003, ISBN 3-85218-432-0
  • The animals pull off! A journey of discovery in the river-floodplain. Picture book ( with Petra Rappo ). Atlantis, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-7152-0474-5
  • Lions lions. Venetian mirrors. Haymon, Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-85218-449-5
  • Lot. A story. Haymon, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-85218-466-5
  • Kunos great ride. Picture book ( with Hannes Binder ). NordSüd, Gossau 2005, ISBN 3-314-01433-3
  • Prisca miniatures. Twenty stories from 1978 to 1988. Postscript by Werner Morlang. Haymon, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-85218-484-3
  • The breast-fed look. Sehstücke. Haymon, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-85218-539-2
  • The Argentine. Amendment. Brush drawings by Heinz Egger, Haymon, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-85218-580-4
  • Views with rooms. Texts on photos by Stephan Schenk. Steidl, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-958-9
  • From the dust. Poems. Haymon, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-568-2.
  • Unexpected course. Poems. Haymon, Innsbruck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7099-7093-5.

Werkausgabe

  • Volume 1: The slats are open. Early poetry 1963-1991. Haymon, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-654-2
  • Volume 2: in the darkroom. Early Prose 1971-1982. Haymon, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-655-9
  • Volume 3: ferry service. Prose 1983-1995. Haymon, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-85218-656-6
  • Volume 4: The man with the door or from the use of the useless. Feature articles. Haymon, Innsbruck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85218-657-3
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