Flurin Spescha

Flurin Spescha (born August 24, 1958 in Domat / Ems ; † October 18, 2000 in Zurich ) was born as the son of the writer Hendri Spescha (1928–1982) and was a Swiss writer and publicist who wrote in German and Rhaeto-Romanic .

Life

Spescha attended the Bündner Kantonsschule in Chur . He then lived in the United States and Canada for a few years . Between 1979 and 1985 he studied Romance studies and literary criticism at the University of Zurich, after which he worked as a freelance journalist , writer and translator .

Spescha was committed to the standard language Rumantsch Grischun . In 1990 he was a co-founder of the Romansh literary days “Dis da litteratura a Domat”. Between 1991 and 1995 he was president of the Rhaeto-Romanic writers' association "Uniun da scripturas e scripturs rumantschs". In 1993 his work Fieu e flomma (Fire and Flame) was published. It was the first ever novel in Rumantsch Grischun. From 1994 to 1999 he was the public relations officer of the Zurich city president. In autumn 2000, a few weeks before his unexpected death, he married the artist Regula Esposito .

He found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery .

Works

• And be it just a dream. Poems. babayaga, Zurich 1981.
• Quasi the same poesias. Self-published, 1983.
• The weight of the hill. Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1986.
• Fieu e flomma. Novel. Octopus, Chur 1993
• Gaudenz. A Romansh-German game in three pictures. edescha, Zurich 1995.
• Ceremonies. Short stories in English translation. edescha, Zurich 1996.
• We have to hope out loud. August 1st speech in Sils Maria. edescha, Zurich 1997.
• The twelfth day after. Stories. Pendo, Zurich 1998.
• How about some sea? (With biography and bibliography). Pendo, Zurich / Munich 2002.

Awards and honors

• 1986: Work grant from the Canton of Zurich
• 1993: Hermann Ganz Prize from the Swiss Writers' Association
• 1997: Rhaeto-Romanic Literature Prize Premi term bel

literature

• Esther Krättli: Flurin Spescha . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1709.

Web links

• Literature by and about Flurin Spescha in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Flurin Spescha at perlentaucher.de
• Spescha reads two of his poems. At Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Spescha at bibliomedia.ch
3. ^ Esther Krättli: Flurin Spescha. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 13, 2012 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
4. ↑ Flavia Schlittler: Circus Knie star Helga Schneider - Love lets you shine. In: SonntagsBlick . May 13, 2018, pp. 30/31.
5. ↑ book Portrait at culturactif.ch, accessed on 5 September 2012 found.

6. Kuoni, Martina: Flurin Spescha: poet, thinker, fighter, poet, idealist, romantic - and novels. In: Bündner Jahrbuch 2020, 69–74.