Urs Faes

Urs Faes in Ventspils , August 2008

Urs Faes (born February 13, 1947 in Aarau ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Urs Faes grew up in the Suhrental in Aargau in a Calvinist environment. He first completed training as a primary school teacher at the Wettingen teacher training college . He then studied history , German literature , philosophy and ethnology and completed a dissertation with the title Paganism and Superstition of Black Africans as assessed by German travelers in the 17th century at the University of Zurich . In addition to his studies, he worked at a high school in Zurich.

His first texts appeared in newspapers and magazines in 1970. Urs Faes is best known as a novelist; He has also written poems, stories, plays and radio plays. Until it was dissolved in 2002, he was a member of the Olten Group . Today he lives as a freelance writer in Zurich and San Feliciano in Umbria .

Awards

• 1985: Sponsorship award from the Canton of Solothurn
• 1986: Working year for the city of Zurich
• 1990: Pro Helvetia year of work
• 1992: Work Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
• 1995: Pro Helvetia year of work
• 1999: Literature Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
• 2001: Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 2007: Working year of the city of Zurich
• 2008: Prize for individual works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation , for love archive
• 2008: Grant from HALMA , the European network of literary centers
• 2008: Prize for individual works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation , for love archive
• 2010: Nomination for the Swiss Book Prize, for pair formation
• 2010: Acknowledgment Prize from the City of Zurich
• 2013: Zolliker Literature Prize
• 2017: Nomination for the Swiss Book Prize
• 2019: Credit from the Canton of Zurich

Works

Books

• A notch at noon. Poems. Sauerländer , Aarau 1975.
• Rain trail. Poems. Lenos , Basel 1979.
• Web error. Novel. Lenos, Basel 1983.
• The dream of life. Stories. Lenos, Basel 1984.
• Until the end of the memory. Novel. Lenos, Basel 1986.
• Summer turn. Novel. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Alphabet of parting. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991.
• Moments in paradise. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Ombra. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997.
• And Ruth. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001.
• As if the silence had doors. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005.
• Love archive. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007.
• Pair formation. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010.
• Paris. One Love. Narrative. Insel, Berlin 2012.
• Summer in Brandenburg. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42419-3 .
• Stop on demand. A logbook . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42583-1 .
• Rough nights. Narrative. Insel, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-458-19452-1

Plays

• Drafts. WP: Baden 1982
• Cross in the field. WP: Baden 1984
• Waiting room. Premiere: Bern 1986

Radio plays

• 1985: Partenza ( SR DRS )
• 1989: visiting hours (DRS)
• 1993: Another Story (DRS)
• 2015: Paris. One love - adaptation and direction: Jean-Claude Kuner ( SRF / RBB )

literature

• Reto Caluori: Urs Faes . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 552.

Web links

• Publications by and about Urs Faes in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Urs Faes archive in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Urs Faes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Urs Faes in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Short biography and reviews of works by Urs Faes at perlentaucher.de
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Website of Urs Faes ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• HALMA Jumps: From Ventspils to Plovdiv. Essay by Urs Faes for the European literary network HALMA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (June 8, 2014)
2. ↑ Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (March 19, 2017)