Catalin Dorian Florescu

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Catalin Dorian Florescu (born August 27, 1967 in Timișoara , Romania ) is a Swiss writer and psychologist .

Life

In 1976 Florescu left Romania for Italy and America, but returned eight months later. In the summer of 1982, the then 15-year-old fled to the West with his parents and has lived in Zurich ever since . He is now a Swiss citizen .

After graduating from the canton school in Enge in 1989, Florescu studied psychology and psychopathology at the University of Zurich and worked from 1995 to 2001 as a psychotherapist in a rehabilitation center for drug addicts. He completed five years of advanced training in Gestalt therapy .

He has been a freelance writer since December 2001. For his novels Wunderzeit (2001), The Short Way Home (2002) and The Blind Masseur (2006), Florescu received the Hermann-Lenz-Scholarship , the Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Förderpreis , a work year of the city of Zurich. Wunderzeit was Book of the Year 2001 by the Swiss Schiller Foundation. In 2003 Florescu received the Anna Seghers Prize . On October 12, 2006, his play The Night Before, was premiered in the Sandkorn Theater in Karlsruhe under the direction of Victor Carcu.

From April 1 to July 31, 2010 he worked as a town clerk in Erfurt , where he continued to work on his novel Jacob decides to love . This novel, which was funded by a cross-border commuter grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation , was awarded the Swiss Book Prize in 2011 . In 2010, Florescu was also a judge at the Prešov short story competition .

criticism

  • on the novel Jacob decides to love : This is about a kind of tension that grips mind and soul. Florescu proves to be an outstanding master of storytelling.

Awards

Works

Novels

Contributions to anthologies

  • In the center of the world . In: Reto Sorg, Andreas Paschedag (Ed.): Swiss Made. Young literature from German-speaking Switzerland . Wagenbach, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8031-2419-0 .
  • Contribution in: Literatur de Suisse . Nodari & Christen, Muri 2004, ISBN 3-9522095-5-4 .
  • September 11th . In: Fire, lust for life! Stories of German immigrants . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-93516-5 .
  • A place at the end of the world . In: Writing nomads discover Europe . Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-99039-160-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The man with no surname . Book review at Deutschlandradio Kultur on July 18, 2011
  2. ↑ What we owe to ourselves . In: FAZ of March 12, 2011, page L 10
  3. ^ Cross-border commuter program of the Robert Bosch Foundation
  4. ^ Marler Zeitung , August 29, 2012
  5. ^ Previously resided in Rottweil: Florescu 2011 , accessed June 18, 2019
  6. ^ Stephan Lohr: Emigrant saga "The man who brings happiness": From the basement holes of world history , Spiegel Online , February 10, 2016; accessed on February 11, 2016
  7. ↑ Review notes on Catalin Dorian Florescu. The center of the world. Stories. at perlentaucher.de
personal data
SURNAME Florescu, Catalin Dorian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychotherapist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Romania