Franz Dodel

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Franz Dodel (born August 14, 1949 in Bern ) is a Swiss writer and theologian .

Life

Franz Dodel attended school in Bern and from 1965 to 1969 the teachers' seminar. From 1987 he studied at the Christian Catholic theological faculty of the University of Bern , where he received his doctorate in 1995 with a dissertation on the spirituality of the desert fathers . After further training in librarianship, Dodel was a specialist librarian for theology and religious studies at the central library in Bern from 2002 to 2012 . Since 2012 Dodel has been living as a freelance writer in Boll and Lugnorre.

Awards

  • Heinz Weder Prize for Poetry 2003
  • Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern 2009, 2011, 2019
  • Work grants: Canton and City of Bern, Civic Community of Bern, Migros Culture Percentage, Pro Helvetia

Not with consolation

In 2002 Franz Dodel began with his endless poem Not at Trost , an associative chain poem that is continued daily, enriched with detailed notes and images. The first 6000 lines of the poem appeared in three volumes in 2004 under the title Not at Trost - a never-ending Haiku and were awarded in 2004 in the competition “The most beautiful books in Switzerland”. Lines 6001 to 12000 were published in 2008 in one volume by Edition Korrespondenzen in Vienna. This was awarded the Austrian State Prize for “One of the Most Beautiful Books in Austria”. The following volumes were all published by Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna.

The work interweaves u. a. again and again aspects from culture and science, which are identified in meticulous notes so that they can also be read as a compendium through cultural history. This constant forward writing (to be read as “work in progress” at www.franzdodel.ch) is also perceived as such for performative action and by the performing arts scene. All the source material used is also repeatedly realized as a conceptual exhibition together with the text. (Among other things, 2017 at the International Poetry Festival Berlin, where the entire text was read for 8 days; before that, the text and the sources had already been seen in this form in Linz, Graz, Bregenz, Langenthal and Bern.) Musical implementation was carried out by Katharina Weber (CH), and by Christoph Herndler (A) several times on the occasion of “Wien Modern”.

Works

  • The sitting of the desert fathers. An investigation based on the Apophthegmata Patrum. (= Paradosis. Vol. 42). Universitätsverlag, Freiburg im Üechtland 1997. ISBN 3-7278-1110-2
  • Direction from the silence. Sit and be silent with the desert fathers . Benziger / Patmos, Zurich and Düsseldorf 1999. ISBN 3-545-20139-2
  • My house has no walls. Poems . Verlag Haus am Gern, Biel 2001. ISBN 3-9522196-0-6
  • Not with consolation - a never-ending haiku . Illustrated by Rudolf Steiner. 3 volumes. Edition Haus am Gern, Biel 2004 (Z. 0001–6000). ISBN 3-9522196-6-5
  • Hartmut Abendschein / Franz Dodel (Ed.): Knowledge and Conscience, a literary anthology . Bern 2005.
  • Not with consolation. Haiku, endless . Illustrated by Serafine Frey. Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2008, 2019 (Z. 6001–12000). ISBN 978-3-902113-58-0
  • From animals . Illustrated by Chantal Meng. edition taberna kritika, Bern 2010; New edition: Edition Haus am Gern, Biel 2016. ISBN 978-3-9524192-4-3
  • Not with consolation. Carmen infinitum . Illustrated by Serafine Frey. Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2011 (Z. 12001–18000). ISBN 978-3-902113-78-8
  • A house is a house is a house. Schaeholzbau AG (Ed.), Kulturverlag Verlag.ch, Bern 2014. ISBN 978-3-905939-24-8
  • Not with consolation. Micrologies . Illustrated by Serafine Frey. Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2014 (Z. 18001–24000). ISBN 978-3-902951-09-0
  • Not with consolation. Sequences . Illustrated by Serafine Frey. Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2016 (Z. 24001–30000). ISBN 978-3-902951-23-6
  • Not with consolation. Capricci . Illustrated by Serafine Frey. Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2019 (Z. 30001–36000). ISBN 978-3-902951-38-0
  • Not with consolation. A never-ending haiku . Illustrated by Rudolf Steiner, revised new edition, Vienna 2019 (Z. 0001–6000). ISBN 978-3-902951-39-7
  • My friend , the crocodile. Poems for children, Bern 2019. ISBN 978-3-033-07179-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita Franz Dodel. Literaturport , accessed December 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Not without my book. Münstergass Buchhandlung, accessed on December 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Dodel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern