Peter Bichsel

Peter Bichsel ( born March 24, 1935 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss writer, best known for his short stories and columns.

Life

Peter Bichsel grew up as the son of a craftsman first in Lucerne, in 1941 in Olten. At the teacher training college in Solothurn he trained as a primary school teacher. In 1956 he married the actress Therese Spoerri († 2005); He has one daughter and one son. In 1957 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland at ( PLC), from 1995, he resigned again. He describes himself as a socialist. Up to 1968 ( and for the last time in 1973 ), he worked as a primary school teacher. Between 1974 and 1981 he worked as a personal advisor for Federal Willi Ritschard, with whom he was friends. With the writer Max Frisch he was up to his death in 1991 a close friend. Bichsel lives in Bellach near Solothurn.

Work

After a few minor publications - especially poetry - in newspapers, a first attempt prose appeared in 1960 as a private printing. In the winter of 1963/64, he took part in a prose - writing course in Berlin, led by Höllerer. From this course, conceive a documentary volume, prose writing (1964 ), and a joint novel of the participants (among others: Hubert Fichte and Klaus Stiller ), The Guest House (1965 ), to the Bichsel contributed the first chapter.

In 1964, he was with his shortest stories in fact, Mrs. Blum would like the milkman to know in one fell swoop known; Group 47 received him enthusiastically and gave him their 1965 literary prize.

1968 were published in the world week its first columns, the ( currently in the Swiss magazine ) so to speak, make his major work ever since. He expressed himself in these columns often on political issues.

In 1970, he stepped out along with 21 other well-known authors from the Swiss Writers' Union and participated in the founding of the group Olten.

Peter Bichsel is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt.

His premature legacy is located in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

Awards

Works

  • Experiments on Gino. Privately printed in 1960.
  • Actually, Mrs. Blum would like the milkman to know. (21 short stories, including The daughter and San Salvador). Walter, Olten 1964.
  • The guest house. Community novel, with Höllerer and others. Walter, Olten 1965.
  • The Seasons (novel). Luchterhand, Neuwied 1967.
  • Children's stories. (7 short stories ). Luchterhand, Neuwied 1969.
  • The Swiss Switzerland. (Essays ). Ark, Zurich, 1969; expanded edition: ark, Zurich 1989.
  • Floors. Prose (ed. Heinz F. sheep Roth). Reclam, Stuttgart, 1974 ( UB 9719 ).
  • Stories at the wrong time. Columns from 1975 to 1978. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1979.
  • The reader. The telling. Frankfurt poetry lectures. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1982 ( SL 482 ).
  • Education bureaus. ( Speeches and articles ). Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1985.
  • The Busant. From drinkers, police and the beautiful Magalona. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1985.
  • Somewhere elsewhere. Columns from 1980 to 1985. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1986 ( SL 669 ).
  • Would you have been Mozart? Meditation for Mozart's Credo Mass, K. 257 / Sermon for the others. A speech for televangelists. TVZ, Zurich 1990.
  • On the contrary. Columns from 1986 to 1990. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1990 ( SL 920).
  • For the city of Paris. Stories. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Cuny stories. (Ed. Tamara S. Evans ). Pro Helvetia, New York 1994.
  • Against our postman could not do anything. Columns from 1990 to 1994. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • A table is a table. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • The Total Democrats. Essays about Switzerland. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998 ( there in 2087 ).
  • Cherubin Cherubin Hammer and Hammer. ( Narrative). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1999.
  • At the end of the Revolution - States Citoyens. Liechtenstein Academic, Vaduz 1999.
  • All of me learned. Columns from 1995 to 1999. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2000.
  • Doctor Schleyer isabelle colored winter school. Columns from 2000 to 2002. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2003.
  • The sweet poison of the letters. Talking to literature. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004 (as in 2353 ).
  • From the invention of the scriptures. ( Speech to the award of an honorary doctorate ). Island, Frankfurt am Main, 2004.
  • Columns, columns. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2005.
  • Stories. Commented by Rolf Jucker. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005 ( sbb 64).
  • December stories. (Ed. Adrienne Schneider). Island, Frankfurt am Main 2007 (IB 1295).
  • Today, Johnson is not. Columns 2005-2008. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2008.
  • About God and the world. Texts on religion (ed. Andreas Mauz ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2009 (est 4154 ).
  • That's easy to say. Sentences from the factory (ed. Beat Mazenauer Severin Perrig ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2011 (est 4294 ).
  • In the port of Bern in the spring. Columns 2008-2011. Radius, Stuttgart, 2012.

Radio plays, radio broadcasts

Recordings

  • Children's stories. Read by Peter Bichsel. German Grammophon, Hamburg 1979.

Movies

  • Our teacher. Alexander J. Seiler, 1971
  • Electronic diary. TV film of the ZDF, 1996
  • Room 202 - Peter Bichsel in Paris. Director: Eric Bergkraut, 2010
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