Dieter Bachmann

This article deals with the publicist and writer Dieter Bachmann. For other people see Dietmar Bachmann .

Frankfurt Book Fair 2011 - Dieter Bachmann in conversation with Susanne Führer

Dieter Bachmann (born December 17, 1940 in Basel ) is a Swiss publicist and writer .

Life

Dieter Bachmann studied German and philosophy and received his doctorate in 1969 with a thesis on essay and essayism at the University of Zurich . He initially worked as a journalist (from 1970) as editor of Weltwoche , then at Tages Anzeiger-Magazin (today: Das Magazin ), and finally from 1988 to 1998 as editor-in-chief of the Swiss cultural magazine du .

Between 1975 and 1985 he was a member of the Pro Helvetia Board of Trustees . From 2000 to 2003 he directed the Istituto Svizzero di Roma . He has lived mainly in Italy since 2001.

Bachmann is a member of the Swiss Writers' Association and the Swiss Press Association (VSP).

Awards

• 1984 Zurich Journalist Prize and Work Year of the Canton of Aargau
• 2002 Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
• 2003 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 2015 Recognition award from the Canton of Zurich for the novel The Gardens of Medusa

Works

Prose works

• Rab. Roman . Ammann, Zurich 1985
• Worries in paradise. Reports . Ammann, Zurich 1987
• The shorter breath. Novel . Residence, Salzburg 1998
• Grimsel's time. Novel . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8270-0463-2 .
• The advantages of the peninsula. In search of Italy . marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-86648-084-9 .
• Among animals. Stories , Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85791-610-6 .
• The gardens of Medusa. Novel . Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85791-756-1 .

items

• The saint of Sindian. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980, 9, pp. 136-152. Experience report about Islamic leaders in the Casamance of Senegal. ISSN  0342-8311
• Friedrichsfelder Songline . In: Lettre International 49, Summer 2000, pp. 10-15. ISSN  0945-5167
• The first last days. Jürg Federspiel - a Swiss man for whom Switzerland was not enough. In: Lettre International 125, Summer 2019, pp. 60–69. ISSN  0945-5167

Non-fiction

• Essay and essayism . Kohlhammer (Language and Literature 55), Stuttgart 1969
• Moments and Motives. Comments on German-Swiss poetry since 1945 . Pro Helvetia, Zurich 1975
• Ticino. Valleys and villages (texts together with Hans Schmid). Huber, Frauenfeld 1981
• See Switzerland. 66 Landscapes by Walter Imber. A point of view from Dieter Bachmann . Mondo, Lausanne 1984
• Architecture of rebellion. New building in Ticino (with Gerardo Zanetti). Birkhäuser, Basel 1985
• Ticino (with Max Wermelinger and Jürg-Peter Huber). dtv (dtv Merian Travel Guide 3742), Munich 1988
• Robert Müller - Crete: Drawings 1978–1987 . Texts (with Emil Theodor Heinrich Zürcher). Nikator, Dieterswil 1990
• The patient planet. A world story. 255 photographs from the magazine «du» (with Daniel Schwartz). du Verlag, Zurich 1995
• The people of Soglio (with Pio Corradi and Urs Frei). Offizin, Zurich 2004

As editor

• The bold Heinrich. Almanac , Zurich 1975
• Update. 98 authors from German-speaking Switzerland . Artemis, Zurich 1977
• The spared house. The Zurich theater during World War II . Ammann, Zurich 1987
• Max Frisch - I live in Rome, the most beautiful city in the world . Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the rooms of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma. Rome 2002
• Il lungo addio - The long farewell . Limmat, Zurich 2003
• Beautiful all over the country. Switzerland with the day pass . Limmat, Zurich 2006

Theatrical performances

• Angscht , UA 1983 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich
• Mikado (new German version) by Gilbert and Sullivan , UA 1984

literature

• Roman Bucheli: Eros of Precision . The writer Dieter Bachmann has many faces and speaks many voices. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (December 17, 2010).
• Dietrich Seybold: Dieter Bachmann . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 98.
• Martin Zingg: Dieter Bachmann . In: Kritisches Lexikon der Deutschensprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur 10 (2006), 84. Subsequent delivery, pp. 1–10.

Web links

• Publications by and about Dieter Bachmann in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Dieter Bachmann's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Dieter Bachmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Dieter Bachmann in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Short biography and reviews of works by Dieter Bachmann at perlentaucher.de
• Biogram of the Ammann Verlag
• Excerpt from The advantages of the peninsula read by Bachmann at Literaturport
• Biography of the International Literature Festival Berlin about Dieter Bachmann

Individual evidence

1. ^ Samuel Moser: Expelled from Paradise Review in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung