Fritz anger
Fritz Zorn (actually Fritz "Federico" Angst ; born April 10, 1944 in Meilen ; † November 2, 1976 in Zurich ) was a Swiss teacher and author . His autobiographical novel "Mars" made him a well-known writer of the eighties movement in Switzerland.
Life
Zorn attended secondary school and studied Portuguese , German and Spanish at the universities of Zurich , Lisbon and Madrid . He received his doctorate in 1971 under Georges Güntert in Zurich with a dissertation on the Portuguese writer Luís de Sttau Monteiro and was then a high school teacher for a short time. Throughout his life he suffered from his bitterly experienced inability to love and from severe depression . In 1976 Fritz Zorn died in Zurich at the age of 32.
"Mars"
In his autobiographical book Mars , published posthumously in 1977 , he blames the Swiss bourgeoisie for his cancer ( malignant lymphoma ). The book became a cult book of the 1980s because of its radicalism and the rebellious diction that matched the lifestyle of the protesting youth at the time of publication .
In Mars, anger describes his (too) late horror caused by illness over his thirty years of "not lived" life. He interprets his illness in a psychosomatic sense, but also as a symptom of a degenerative process affecting the entire social organism. In the face of approaching death, it becomes clear to him that during his sheltered and coldly strict childhood in a wealthy, upper-class family on the Zurich Gold Coast and behind the facade of his straightforward professional career, almost everything "went wrong" for him as a person.
Works
- Charm and morals. The representation of reality in Luis de Sttau Monteiro. Juris, Zurich 1972 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1971).
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Mars. «I am young and rich and educated; and I am unhappy, neurotic and alone ... » With a foreword by Adolf Muschg . Kindler, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-463-00693-6 .
- Paperback edition: Mars. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-22202-8 .
literature
- Brigitte Haberer: Fritz Zorn. Mars. In: Walter Jens (Ed.): Kindlers New Literature Lexicon . Volume 17 (1992), ISBN 3-463-43017-7 , pp. 1087 f.
- Anselm Haverkamp : The Latest Illness to Death. The Werther syndrome in the communication literature of the seventies: Fritz Zorn, Mars. With an afterword on fiction and reality. In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history . 60: 667-696 (1986).
- Jutta Anna Kleber: Guilt and Cancer. History and end of incurability in modern times. In: bankruptcy book. Journal for Criticism of Reason. No. 37 (1999), ISBN 3-88769-237-3 , pp. 121-137.
- Christiane Lenker: Cancer can also be an opportunity. Interim balance or reply to Fritz Zorn. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-23288-0 .
- Daniel de Roulet : Double. Limmat, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-857-91323-1 .
- Michael Rutschky : A thirst for experience. An essay on the seventies. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-462-01381-5 .
Web links
- Publications by and about Fritz Zorn in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Fritz Zorn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
- Serge Meitinger: About death in the bank. Zurich, a portrait in the dark. Essay on Fritz Zorn and Christian Doumet
- Linus Schöpfer: What is left of the anger? Article from the Tages-Anzeiger , November 2, 2010
- Fritz Zorn The authors of the 68 generation: Balance sheets of the lifestyle experiments
Individual evidence
- ↑ mars-adolf-muschg-ld. 1427774
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anger, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fear, Fritz (real name); Fear, Federico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | miles |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd November 1976 |
| Place of death | Zurich |