Silvio Blatter

Life

Silvio Blatter comes from a working class family. He attended the district school in his hometown from 1962 to 1966, the teachers' seminary in Wettingen ( AG). He then spent six years as a primary school teacher in Aarau. In 1970, he worked for several months in a company in the metal industry.

In 1972 he took up the study of German at the University of Zurich, which he broke off after six semesters. In 1974 he was again active in the industry, this time as a machinist in the plastics industry. In 1975, he trained as a radio drama director at the Swiss Radio DRS. After extended stays in Amsterdam and in Husum he settled down in 1976 as a freelance writer in Zurich. Today he lives in Upper Smooth in Canton Zurich and Munich.

Services

Silvio Blatter, who mainly writes prose, depicts in his early works everyday life and the monotony of industrial work on detailed manner. The author is best known for his so-called free office trilogy consisting Growing from the novels homesickness, no more beautiful country and the gentle law that paint a broad picture of Blatter's home region, the free office Aargau, and its inhabitants. In the 1990s came Blatter's literary activity in the background, and he devoted himself almost ten years mainly in painting. Since 2000, writing and painting are again equally important for him.

Awards and honors

Works

Original editions:

  • Fires come unexpectedly. Rainbow, Zurich 1968
  • A ground floor apartment. Sauerland, Aarau 1970
  • Switching error. Narratives. Flamberge, Zurich 1972
  • Mary Long. Novel. Flamberge, Zurich 1973
  • Only the king wears a beard. Narrative. Swiss advertising spot for the book, Zurich 1973
  • Flight and death of Daniel Zoff. Preliminary report of a rural day. Sauerland, Aarau 1974
  • Standardized days, spilled time. A story. Suhrkamp ( it 858), Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Growing homesick. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • Love me tender. Narrative. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • The snow trap. Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1981
  • No more beautiful country. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • The soft waves. The Book of the lake. Swiss publishing house, Zurich 1985 ( text to a photo of Ulrich Anderegg )
  • Aquarius. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • The gentle law. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1988
  • The Blue House. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • Avenue America. Novel. Island, Frankfurt / Leipzig 1992
  • The lucky number. Amendment. Frankfurt Publishing Company ( FVA), Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3- 627-00082 -X
  • Twelve seconds of silence. Novel. FVA, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-627-00114-1
  • An unfinished story. FVA, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-627-00131-1
  • Two monkeys. Novel. Dumont, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-8050-8
  • Four days in August. Novel. Langen -Müller, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7844-3316-5

Images of Silvio Blatter have been published in:

  • The blind spot. Gallery Marie -Louise Wirth, Schöftland 1992
  • Jürg Amann: star drift. An American Diary. Hermit -Presse, Dusseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-87365-331-1

Radio plays / radio broadcasts

  • All questions of this world, DRS 1975
  • Christmas Dreams, DRS 1975
  • Letschti Liebi ( dialect version of the radio play of Urs leather tanners ), DRS 1976
  • Bologna can wait DRS 1981
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