EY Meyer

EY Meyer (* 11. October 1946 as Peter Meyer in Liestal ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

From 1966 , Peter Meyer studied German , history and philosophy at the University of Bern . He broke off this course and completed an apprenticeship at the state teacher training college in Bern . He then worked as a primary school teacher in Ittigen . Since 1974 he has lived as a freelance writer under the name EY Meyer in Bern.

EY Meyer is a writer of novels , short stories , plays , radio plays and poems . His texts are strongly influenced by his philosophical studies and the rejection of the prevailing thought of progress, whose function in the "restoration" of the world, according to Meyer, should be assumed by art and creativity.

Again and again he expresses himself publicly on such socio-political issues. Increasing urbanization and the associated loss of habitat for people, animals and plants are causing him discomfort. He also finds it questionable or intolerable if residents are expected to be exposed to noise emissions for nights in the middle of Bern through illegal techno parties and the police claim that they are powerless against it.

EY Meyer has been a member of the Swiss Writers' Association (SSV) since 1973, today Authors in Switzerland (AdS). In 2011 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swiss-German PEN Center .

Awards

• 1976 Literature Prize of the Canton of Baselland
• 1983 Gerhart Hauptmann Prize
• 1984 Prize for total works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 1985 Prize from the Welti Foundation for the drama Das System
• 2005 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern

Works

Original editions

• A traveler in matters of revolution . Stories. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1972
  • New version: Suhrkamp (st 927), Frankfurt am Main 1983
• In Trubschachen . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973
  • New edition: The Trubschachen complex . A novel and a story. Afterword by Heinz F. Schafroth . Ammann Verlag , Zurich 1998
    • New paperback edition: In Trubschachen. Novel from the Emmental . Lenos Verlag , Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-85787-721-6
• A distant resemblance . Stories. Suhrkamp (st 242), Frankfurt am Main 1975
• The return trip . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977
• Half the experience . Essays and speeches. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980
• Plea. For the preservation of the diversity of nature or for its defense against the threat of destruction through the simplicity of man . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982
• Sunday morning . Play. Bern German. With an afterword by EY Meyer and the speech by Martin Machatzke on the occasion of the presentation of the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize 1983. Erpf, Bern 1984, ISBN 3-256-00074-6
• Wild berries . Insel ( IB 1128), Frankfurt am Main 1992 (text on pictures by Sabine Schroer-Hofkunst)
• Doctor Maillard's System or The World of Machines . Novel. Ammann, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-250-10213-X
• Winter stories . Stories. Ammann, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-250-10269-5
• Venetian interlude . A novella. Ammann, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-250-10311-X
• The ride. A Gotthelf novel . Folio, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85256-285-6
  • Paperback reissue as: Gotthelfs Ritt. Novel from the Emmental . Lenos, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-85787-745-2
• A distant resemblance. A Robert Walser story . Folio, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85256-341-0
• Where God crouches. Emmentaler and other poems . With “House Of The Rising Sun” in Bern German and music by Hank Shizzoe . Audio CD, 2007, ISBN 978-3-03-301242-4
• Change. New millennium novel . Stämpfli, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7272-1269-7
• Apotheosis. New millennium novel . Stämpfli, Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7272-1442-4

Theater performances, radio plays, TV

• Sunday morning , premiered at the Stadttheater Bern , 1987
• Spitzberg . Radio play, Swiss Radio DRS , 1972
• A distant resemblance . Radio play, DRS, 1975
• Reduction of the workforce . TV drama, 1976

Editing

• Sounds. A Swiss anthology . Scheffelbund, Karlsruhe 1982 (together with Beatrice Steiner)
• Edgar Allan Poe : The Raven . Bilingual edition. With an afterword by EY Meyer. Insel (IB 1006), Frankfurt am Main 1982 (12. A. 2007), ISBN 3-458-19006-6
• Jeremias Gotthelf : Money and Spirit or Reconciliation . With an afterword by EY Meyer. Suhrkamp (White Program Switzerland), Frankfurt am Main 1990

literature

• Beatrice von Matt (Ed.): EY Meyer. Suhrkamp (st materials 2022), Frankfurt am Main 1983.
• Cornel Joseph Wietlisbach: Possible Reality - Real Possibility? Berkeley, Calif 1987.
• Martin Durrer: Life without Reality - Writing Against Going Down. Lang, Bern 1988.
• Edeltraud Schmied Thomassen: In search of connections. Bergen 1988.
• Sven Spiegelberg: Discourse in the Void. Essays on current literature in Switzerland. Lang, Bern 1990.
• Maria Adèle Hafner: The figure of the teacher in Albin Zollinger's novel “Pfannenstiel” and “Bohnenblust” and in EY Meyer's novel “Die Rückfahrt”. Zurich 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.hochparterre.ch/nachrichten/presseschau/blog/post/detail/megacity-switzerland/1571300868/ , accessed on August 3, 2020.
2. ↑ https://www.derbund.ch/warum-ich-wegen-der-illegalen-party-die-polizei-haben-habe-799667871266 , accessed on August 3, 2020.
3. ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv: EY Meyer proposed for Nobel Prize in Literature. March 10, 2011.

Web links

• Publications by and about EY Meyer in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• EY Meyer's archive in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about EY Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Own web presence
• Entry via EY Meyer in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory