Florian Vetsch (writer)

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Florian Vetsch

Florian Vetsch (born April 13, 1960 in Buchs SG , resident in Grabs ) is a Swiss author , translator and editor of American and German beat literature.

education and profession

The man of letters is in Buchs SG and in St. Gallen as the son of the government councilor Florian Vetsch and Anny, geb. Englishman grew up. There he attended the canton school at Burggraben, where he now teaches German and philosophy.

Vetsch studied German in Zurich with Wolfgang Binder, Alois Maria Haas and Stefan Sonderegger, philosophy with Hans-Jürg Braun and Jean-Pierre Schobinger, and literary criticism with Werner Weber. He graduated in 1985 and obtained his doctorate in the 1990/91 winter semester with a dissertation under Hans-Jürg Braun on Martin Heidegger .

Literary activity

His preferred field is Beat literature . He studied the works of Ira Cohen, Paul Bowles , Allen Ginsberg and others, some of which he translated from the American into the German language. He works as an editor, essayist , critic and poet . He has published numerous books and specialist articles in literary magazines, magazines and newspapers.

For over ten years Florian Vetsch worked with Boris Kerensky on the publication of the anthology Tanger Telegram, which is considered a cult reader . Journey through the literatures of a legendary Moroccan city ; The book was published by bilgerverlag in 2004 in Zurich and was reprinted in 2017.

Vetsch and Gallus Frei lead the literary event series Noisma in the Kult-Bau in St. Gallen. He also worked on the program committee of the Solothurn Literature Days 2018, 2019 and 2020.

See also

Works (selection)

  • Martin Heidegger's approach to intercultural debate . Würzburg 1992 (Diss.)
  • Desultory Correspondence. An Interview with Paul Bowles on Gertrude Stein / Sporadic Correspondence / An Interview with Paul Bowles about Gertrude Stein . New York, Zurich 1997
  • Paul Bowles: Not close. Selected poems 1926 - 1977 (transl.), St. Gallen 1998
  • Ira Cohen: Letter to Kaliban & Other Poems, ( transl .), Göttingen 1999
  • Product samples, blooming. Collection of contemporary poetry. (Ed. With Alexandra Stäheli), Frauenfeld 2000
  • The fire potions. Selected poems 1984–1997 , Herdecke 2002
  • Allen Ginsberg . The Paramedic No. 9 , (Ed.), Ostheim / Rhön 2002
  • Ploog tanker. Texts by & about Jürgen Ploog , (Ed.), Herdecke 2004
  • Tangier telegram. Journey through the literatures of a legendary Moroccan city , edited together with Boris Kerenski , Zurich 2004/2017
  • Rude look oriental. CopyArt magazine for art & literature No. 1 & 2 (edited with Axel Monte). Harrlach 2004 & 2005
  • 43 new poems , Vienna 2009
  • Carnet de Fes - A Summer in Morocco , Munich 2010
  • Ira Cohen: Where the heart rests. Poems. Extended bilingual new edition. Translated from the American and with an afterword by Florian Vetsch, Wenzendorf 2010
  • Tangier trance . Photos: Amsel, texts: Florian Vetsch. With a foreword by Abdelwahab Meddeb. Languages: German, French, English, Arabic. Bern, Sulgen, Zurich 2010
  • Jack Black: Law Book and Crooks Honor. Translated from the American by Axel Monte and Florian Vetsch. With an afterword by Jürgen Ploog. Munich 2011
  • Ira Cohen: The Great Rice Paper Adventure from Kathmandu. Translated from the American and provided with an afterword by Florian Vetsch. Munich 2011
  • Hadayatullah Hübsch and Florian Vetsch: Round & Round & Round - A cycle of poems. Vienna 2011
  • Mohammed Mrabet: Stories from Tangier. Translated and introduced by Florian Vetsch. Zurich 2012
  • In the single house - a spring in New York. Munich 2012
  • Ira Cohen, Jürgen Ploog and Florian Vetsch: A Night in Zurich. Illustrated edition. Lucerne 2012; Mainz 2018
  • Hadayatullah Hübsch and Florian Vetsch: Ice breaks quietly - 6 poems. Mainz 2013
  • Bring out the rum! The emails from Anna Böger and Carl Weissner , (eds.), Lucerne 2014
  • Claire Plassard and Florian Vetsch: Throwing stones into the light eye - A cycle of poems. With an afterword by Felix Philipp Ingold and drawings by Harald Häuser . Pretzien 2014
  • Undead on the sturgeon (poems). Mainz 2016
  • Peter Z. Herzog (art) and Florian Vetsch (odenstrophes): Sapphic message in a bottle - From the terribly foaming Eros. With comments by the editor Josef Felix Müller. Berlin, St. Gallen 2016
  • Claire Plassard and Florian Vetsch: A thin thread holds everything together - a cycle of poems . With a prelude by Katharina Franck and drawings by Harald Häuser . Pretzien 2019
  • Jan Heller Levi : That's the Way to Travel / Selected Poems - So one should travel / Selected poems. Translated from the American by Clemens Umbricht and Florian Vetsch. With collages by Marlies Pekarek. Pretzien 2019
  • An Afternoon with Ed Sanders - The Stone / An Afternoon at Es Sanders - The Stone (translations by Douglas Spangle). Cold Turkey Press. Sonnac 2019
  • Quintessence - The twenty-two major tarot arcana (poems) / Peter Marggraf: Tarot cards (color etchings). San Marco hand press. Neustadt 2020
  • A Different Kind of Justice - Tribute to Heathcote Williams / Eine Another Gerechtigkeit - Akrostichon für Heathcote Williams (translated, from the German, by Christoph Keller & Jan Heller Levi). Cold Turkey Press. Sonnac 2020
  • Christoph Keller: Every cripple is a superhero - a splinter from life in exclusion (largely in close collaboration with the author, translated from American English by Florian Vetsch). Limmat publishing house. Zurich 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Vetsch, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss author, translator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchs SG