Fritz Senn

Fritz Senn at the Finnegans Wake reading group of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation , May 2010

Fritz Senn (born January 1, 1928 in Basel ) is a Swiss publicist , James Joyce specialist and theoretician of ochlokinetics .

Live and act

As the theoretician of ochlokinetics, Fritz Senn is a representative of the "happy science of man as a being that basically stands in the way of others".

Senn was President of the International James Joyce Foundation , Associate Editor of A Wake Newslitter and James Joyce Quarterly, and the Frankfurt James Joyce Edition. Since 1985 he has been director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation , which is also an archive, documentation center, specialist library and meeting place for researchers and reading groups.

Fritz Senn is a member of the expert jury for the Zug translator scholarship .

Awards

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich
• Honorary Doctorate from University College Dublin
• Johann Jakob Bodmer Prize of the City of Zurich
• Prize of the Max Geilinger Foundation
• Golden Medal of Honor of the Canton of Zurich (2009)
• Zurich Festival Prize (2014)

Publications

• The James Joyce Reader. Zurich 1979.
• Nothing against Joyce. Joyce versus Nothing. Articles 1959–1983. Edited by Franz Cavigelli. Zurich 1984.
• “The fine way to make enemies.” James Abbott McNeill Whistler in dispute with Oscar Wilde & GKChesterton. Staged and translated by Fritz Senn. Haffmans, Zurich 1984. (New edition: Reclams, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-86150-613-3 .)
• Together with Klaus Reichert : James Joyce: Finnegans Wake . Collected approximations German . Edition Suhrkamp: Frankfurt 1989 ISBN 978-3-518-11524-4 .
• Not just nothing against Joyce. Essays on Joyce and the World. 1969-1999. Edited by Friedhelm Rathjen . Zurich 1999
• More about Joyce. Side lights. Schöffling, Frankf. am M. 2012. ISBN 978-3-89561-333-3
• Right in the middle, in: Sovereign bridge builders. 60 years of the Association of Literary Translators. For the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , Ed. Helga Pfetsch. Special issue language in the technical age , SpritZ. Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2014 ISBN 9783412222840 ISSN  0038-8475 pp. 157–163 (Senn as a former long-time editor of the Diogenes Verlag about his collaboration with literary translators)

literature

• Ruth Frehner, Ursula Zeller (Ed.): A Collideorscape of Joyce. Festschrift for Fritz Senn. Lilliput Press, Dublin 1998, ISBN 1-901866-10-6 .
• Christine O'Neill: Memories. Fritz Senn to James Joyce. Translated from the English by Fritz Senn. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03823-366-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Senn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the "Zurich James Joyce Foundation".
• Thomas Hermann: A seeker in matters of Joyce. Christine O'Neill in conversation with Fritz Senn. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from January 17, 2008.
• Thomas Bodmer: “The drive is curious ignorance”. Fritz Senn is considered to be the best reader James Joyce has ever had. ( Memento from November 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Tages-Anzeiger , February 29, 2008.
• "Watch how the language thinks." The Zurich James Joyce researcher Fritz Senn explored the work of the great Irishman in a variety of ways. The New Zurich Times. January 29, 2011.
• Thomas Hermann: "The art of delicious elegance". The British novelist PG Wodehouse, read with Fritz Senn. The New Zurich Times. December 31, 2011.
• Laudation that Senn gave for Ulrich Blumenbach for the Culture Prize of the City of Basel , in Translate 1, 2017 (full online version).
• NZZ from October 20, 2018 (Fritz Senn: How much obstinacy can a translation take? Hans Wollschläger and the «Ulysses» )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fritz Senn: Ochlokinetik or Why people get stuck. as well as the ochlokinetic Joyce. In: Fritz Senn: Not just nothing against Joyce. Essays on Joyce and the World. 1969-1999. Edited by Friedhelm Rathjen. Zurich 1999. pp. 373-380.
2. ↑ Thomas Hermann: A seeker in matters of Joyce. Christine O'Neill in conversation with Fritz Senn. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 17, 2008
3. ↑ Gold Medal of Honor to James Joyce Expert. Tages-Anzeiger, June 25, 2009.
4. ↑ Fritz Senn ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2017 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. on the website of the Zurich Festival Prize, accessed on June 12, 2014.