Clemens Mettler

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Clemens Mettler (born September 1, 1936 in Ibach / Canton Schwyz ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Clemens Mettler comes from a working-class family . After attending grammar school , he completed a degree at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts and obtained his drawing teacher diploma in 1960. He taught German and drawing at the "Maria Hilf" college in Schwyz . He then settled in Zurich , where he worked for the Swiss Post . In addition, he worked on literary texts that appeared in book form from 1967. From 1969 he was, alongside Walter Matthias Diggelmann , a columnist for Focus: the time-critical magazine, for which he also wrote some satirical short stories.

Clemens Mettler is the author of novels , short stories , poems and plays . Mettler's 1993 Findelbuch is considered his most important work. He is a member of the association " Authors of Switzerland " and the Central Swiss Writers' Association . Today he lives in a retirement home in Zurich-Schwamendingen .

Mettler's archive is located in the Swiss Literature Archive .

Awards

In 1969 Clemens Mettler received a prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation , in 1983 the sponsorship prize for the Bremen Literature Prize and the guest prize from the city and canton of Lucerne's cultural sponsorship, and in 1986 the recognition prize from the canton of Schwyz . In 1998 he was honored with a work year from the Literature Commission of the City of Zurich .

Works

  • New Year's Eve. Zurich 1967
  • The glass mountain. Zurich [u. a.] 1968
  • The probe. Zurich 1968
  • Color piece. Zurich 1970
  • Christmas. Zurich 1970
  • Bright, early midday fire. Zurich [u. a.] 1971
  • Sweeping pressure and other stories. Zurich [u. a.] 1974
  • Like a still image, so unmoved: stories. Zurich 1982
  • Finding aid. Zurich 1993
  • Symmetry or How I got two communion spans. Zurich 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Clemens Mettler on Bibliomedia
  2. Holdings: Mettler, Clemens: Archiv Clemens Mettler, 1970 (approx.) - 2016 (approx.). Swiss Literary Archives . link