Peter von Matt

Peter von Matt ( born May 20, 1937 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss German scholar and writer.

Life

Peter von Matt grew up in Stans on in Nidwalden. He studied German, English and art history in Zurich and Nottingham received his doctorate with Emil Staiger on Franz Grillparzer. In 1970 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on ETA Hoffmann.

From 1976 to 2002 taught by Matt as Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Zurich. In 1980 he was a visiting professor at Stanford University in California and 1992/1993 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.

By Matt is a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Arts and Sciences, the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt, the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Regularly by Matt is a contributing writer for the Frankfurter anthology. Marcel Reich -Ranicki had discovered him for this. 1998 was the first winner of Matt founded in 1974 anthology.

Peter von Matt is married to the literary critic Beatrice von Matt Albrecht and lives with her ​​since 1975 in Dübendorf near Zurich.

Works

  • The floor plan of Grillparzer's stagecraft. Zurich 1965 ( dissertation).
  • The eyes of the machine. E.T.A. Hoffmann's imagination doctrine as a principle of its storytelling. Tübingen 1971 ( habilitation thesis ).
  • Finished ... is the face. For the literary history of the human face. Munich / Vienna 1983.
  • Betrayal - The unfaithful in the literature. Munich 1989.
  • The fate of the imagination. Studies of German literature. Munich 1994.
  • The compass-maker. Lever last crook. Series of the lever Federal Lörrach, Issue 41, 1994.
  • Depraved Sons, wayward daughters. Family disaster in the literature. Munich 1995.
  • The suspect splendor. About poetry and poems. Munich 1998.
  • The ink blue Confederates. About the literary and political Switzerland. Munich 2001.
  • Public worship of the spirits of the air. Munich 2003.
  • The intrigue. Theory and practice of deceit. Munich 2006.
  • The Wild and the order. For German literature. Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20840-7.
  • The Inflamed. About Elias Canetti. Nagel & Kimche, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-312-00391-4.
  • Words lights. Small interpretations of German poems. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23298-3; in paperback: dtv 34665, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-34665-8.
  • The calf before Gotthardpost. For literature and politics of Switzerland. Hanser, Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23880-0.
  • Self- conception ( when shooting in the Academy of Arts in Berlin on November 8, 2008). In: meaning and form, issue 2/ 2009, pp. 282-284, ISSN 0037-5756.
  • Art, waste and justice, keynote speaker at the opening of the Salzburg Festival 2012, on the website of OE1.

In addition, Peter von Matt has published numerous essays in anthologies and magazines.

Awards

Frankfurter Anthologie Heinrich Mann Prize Swiss Book Prize Integrated Authority File
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