Dante Andrea Franzetti
Dante Andrea Franzetti (born December 21, 1959 in Zurich ; † November 4, 2015 ibid) was a Swiss writer and editor of the cultural magazine interests.org and co-author of the same.
Life
Dante Andrea Franzetti was the son of a Swiss mother and an Italian father. He grew up bilingual . He completed his studies in German, Romance languages and sociology at the University of Zurich with a licentiate degree . He then worked as a teacher for Italian at a Zurich high school and as a journalist for Swiss radio DRS in Zurich and Lugano . From 1994 to 1998 he was Italy correspondent for the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger .
Dante Andrea Franzetti was the author of novels and short stories in German , he “mastered the art of lightness”. He lived near Genoa . He died after complications from heart surgery in November 2015 at the age of 55 in Zurich.
Awards
- 1985 Sponsorship award for the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
- 1985 Ernst Willner scholarship at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- 1987 Award for the Marburg Literature Prize
- 1987 Honorary gift from the City of Zurich
- 1990 year of work for the Pro Helvetia Foundation
- 1991 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
- 1993 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
- 1996 Book Prize of the Canton of Zurich
- 2013 Schiller Prize from Zürcher Kantonalbank for his novel Back to Rome
Works
- The grandfather . Narrative. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-312-00109-9 ; Piper, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-492-10656-0 ; Lenos, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-85787-761-2 .
- Cosimo and Hamlet . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-312-00129-3 ; Piper, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-492-11055-X .
- The meeting of angels at the Hotel Excelsior . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-312-00149-8 ; Piper, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-492-10862-8 .
- “At home, but not at home”, between the literatures. 5th Freiburg Literature Discussion, November 14-16, 1991. Forum Allmende. City of Freiburg - Cultural Office, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, DNB 920717829 (= Freiburg Literature Talk , No. 5, 1991).
- The broadcasting house . Novel. Piper, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-492-03693-7 .
- The sardine night. Thirty TV cuts from the Berlusconi era . Elster, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-89151-236-8 .
- Love lies . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-312-00219-2 ; Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-14150-4 .
- with Emanuel LaRoche and Claude Delarue : Vaterland , Vontobel Foundation , Zurich 1998, DNB 954 744 608 (partly in German, French and Italian).
- Curriculum of a grave robber . Stories. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-312-00268-0 .
- Passion. Journal for Liliane . Haymon, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 3-85218-493-2 .
- With the women . Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-85218-565-1 .
- The leg without a man . Lenos, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-85787-412-3 (with clown pic ).
- Back to Rome . Lenos, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-85787-426-0 .
- Roger Rightwing decapitates the delicate conversation at the table . Lenos, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-85787-762-9 (satire on Roger Köppel ).
- Right in the head . Detective novella. Lenos, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-85787-451-2 .
Editing
- Gerhard Amanshauser : The killing of mosquitoes. Exaggerated stories . Rio, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-9520059-4-0 .
literature
- Dante Andrea Franzetti in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Publications by and about Dante Andrea Franzetti in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Dante Andrea Franzetti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Dante Andrea Franzetti in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Dante Andrea Franzetti in the Bibliomedia
- Satyrikon , column by Dante Andrea Franzetti at journal21
Individual evidence
- ^ Family obituary . ( Memento from November 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 7, 2015, p. 8.
- ↑ Beatrice Eichmann-Leutenegger: Life mosaic. On the death of the Swiss writer Dante Andrea Franzetti . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of November 7, 2015, p. 46.
- ^ Writer Dante Andrea Franzetti has died. In: Der Standard , November 5, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Franzetti, Dante Andrea |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1959 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich , Switzerland |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 2015 |
Place of death | Zurich , Switzerland |