Markus Hediger

Markus Hediger ( born March 31, 1959 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer and translator.

Life

Markus Hediger spent his childhood and youth in Reinach. After leaving school at the New Canton Aarau he studied from 1980 Romance languages ​​and literary criticism (the latter with Werner Weber) at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1990 from. 1984/85 he was assistant at the Lycée Montaigne German in Bordeaux.

In 1975, he discovered France, especially Paris. There he learned in 1979 the Lebanese poet and playwright Georges Schehadé know who opened new horizons for him and whom he visited regularly until his death in 1989. More important for the development of his personality and art mind encounters were the poet Erika Burkart and Eugène Guillevic and the novelist Walter Vogt, Julien Green and Georges Borgeaud.

Very early on began to Markus Hediger to write adventure stories and later stories and a novel in German. But in 1977, he began to acquire the French language: even today it serves him to express personal things, whereas his mother language, German is the language into which he translated novels, short stories, poems and articles from the French. 1978 was a first lyric text in French, but only 18 years later, his first volume of poetry, Ne pas la pierre retournez appeared (1996). Also in 1978, he went to a new translation of the play Huis Clos by Jean -Paul Sartre and the one-act Lucienne de Carpentras by Yves Navarre.

During his studies he published his first translation: The exile of Grado ( 1984) by Jacques Mercanton. This was followed by more than twenty publications after 1990.

Markus Hediger from 1991 to 2002 member of the group Olten, he at CEATL 1999-2002 - Conseil Européen des Associations de Traducteurs Littéraires - represented. He held from 2003 to 2013 when the newly formed all-Swiss Association of Authors of Switzerland ( AdS ) The same function.

Works

Poetry

  • Ne pas la pierre retournez. romésie (1981-1995), Éditions de l' Aire, Vevey 1996, ISBN 2-88108-437-0.
  • Là pour me souvenir / Qui by ricordare ( traduzione di Grazia e Panaro Alberto Regoli ), selection of 17 poems in French and Italian. Lietocollelibiri, Faloppio 2005, ISBN 88-7848-154-8.
  • En deca de la lumière. romésie II (1996-2007), Éditions de l' Aire, Vevey 2009, ISBN 978-2-88108-886-5.

Audio CD

  • Ne pas la pierre retournez - not Reverses the stone. Français - German ( Audio CD ) Translation by Margrit von roof, Arsmedia, Schöftland 1999, ISBN 3-909188-36-2.

Settings of poems

  • Susanne Baltensperger, Au fond du son for organ, baritone and monochord (2010)
  • Vivien Memo Les Netsuke for soprano and piano (2010)
  • Cinq chants perdus for soprano and piano (2010)

Essay

  • Les après -midi de Georges Schehadé. In: Rencontre II Éditions de l' Aire, Vevey 2009, ISBN 978-2-88108-900-8.

Anthology

  • Passages - tales from the French part of Switzerland from 1970 to 1990. Benziger, Zurich 1991

Translations

  • Jacques Mercanton: The exile of Grado ( fr. La Sibylle ). Italian stories. Benziger, Zurich 1984
  • Étienne Barilier: The cat Musica ( fr. Musique ). Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1991
  • Bernard Comment: Servant of knowledge ( fr. L' Ombre de mémoire ). Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1992
  • Alice Rivaz: Clouds in the hand ( fr. Nuages ​​dans la main ). Novel. Huber, Frauenfeld 1992
  • Jacques Mercanton: The hours of James Joyce ( fr. Les Heures de James Joyce ). Essay. Lenos, Basel 1993
  • Yves Laplace: A model man ( fr. Un Homme exemplaire ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1994
  • Alice Rivaz: Sleepless Night ( fr. Jette ton pain ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1994
  • Jacques- Étienne Bovard: Why do you smoke, Monsieur Grin? ( fr. La Griffe ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1996
  • Élisabeth Horem: The Ring ( fr. Le ring). Novel. Lenos Verlag, Basel 1996
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: Matthias Berg ( fr. Matthias Berg ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1997
  • Alice Rivaz: From memory, from oblivion ( fr. De Mémoire et d' oubli ). Narratives. Lenos, Basel 1997
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: La Punta ( fr. La Punta ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1999
  • Alice Rivaz: Like sand through your fingers ( fr. Comme le sable ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 2000
  • Alice Rivaz: The trough ( fr. Le Creux de la vague ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 2001
  • Rose-Marie Pagnard: Judith's legacy ( fr. La Leçon de Judith ). Narrative. Lenos, Basel 2002
  • Jean -Bernard Vuillème: With his face to the back ( fr. Face à dos ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 2003
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: The Hills ( fr. Les Collines ). Narrative. Lenos, Basel 2004
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: pond under ice ( fr. Un Etang sous la glace ). Novel. Lenos, Basel 2006
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: Life Shard ( fr. Eclats de vie). Lenos, Basel 2008
  • Claire Krahenbuhl: Ailleurs peut -être / Maybe elsewhere, poems, Wolfbach Verlag, Zurich 2013 ISBN 978-3-905910-38-4

Translations of poems and lyrical prose, especially by Edmond -Henri Crisinel, Claire Genoux, Jean -Georges Lossier, Fabio Pusterla and Georges Schehadé.

Prizes and awards

Swiss people Reinach, Aargau Gruppe Olten Benziger Brothers Nicolas Bouvier Fabio Pusteria Pro Helvetia Integrated Authority File
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