Hans Boesch (writer)

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Hans Boesch (born March 13, 1926 in Frümsen ; † June 21, 2003 in Stäfa ) was a Swiss writer .

He studied civil engineering and worked at the Institute for Local, Regional and State Planning at ETH Zurich in the field of transport planning. He has published novels , satires and essays . With the novel tetralogy Der Sog , Der Bann , Der Kreis und Schweben , he created a work that reflects our century through the life stories of the characters. Hans Boesch lived partly near Zurich and partly in the Bündner Alps .

Hans Boesch's estate is kept in the Swiss Literary Archives.

Awards

  • 1954 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize for oleanders and the young Os
  • 1962 Pro Helvetia work year for The Fly Trap
  • 1969 Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation for The Fly Trap
  • 1971 Honorary gift from the city of Zurich
  • 1971 working year for the canton of Zurich
  • 1975 Pro Helvetia year of work
  • 1978 Honorary gift from the City of Zurich
  • 1983 Literature Prize of the Canton of Aargau
  • 1988 Schiller Prize from the Zürcher Kantonalbank for Der Sog
  • 1989 Lake Constance Literature Prize of the City of Überlingen for Der Sog
  • 1996 First winner of the Jaeckle Treadwell Prize for the complete literary work
  • 1996 Book Prize of the City of Zurich for Der Bann
  • 1998 Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation for Der Kreis
  • 1998 Joseph Breitbach Prize for Literature, awarded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz
  • 1998 Honorary gift from the City of Zurich for Der Kreis
  • 2003 Honorary gift from the UBS Foundation

Works

  • Oleander. The youth . Poetry. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1951.
  • Pan . Poetry. Borgis, Sins 1955.
  • The young Os . Speer, Zurich 1957.
  • The scaffolding . Walter, Olten 1960.
  • The fly trap . Artemis, Zurich 1968.
  • A david . Poems. Artemis, Zurich 1970.
  • Man in city traffic . Illustrated essay. Artemis, Zurich 1975.
  • The kiosk. Artemis, Zurich 1978.
  • Company Normkopf . Satires. Artemis, Zurich 1985.
  • The suction . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1988. (also: dtv 12630)
  • The spell . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1996. (also: dtv 12726)
  • The circle . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1998. (also: dtv 13230)
  • The sensual city . Essays on modern urbanism. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2001.
  • Levitate . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2003. (also: dtv 13347)
  • Samurai . Stories. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2005
  • The engineer trilogy. The scaffolding - the fly trap - the kiosk . Chronos, Zurich 2007.

literature

  • Rudolf Probst (Ed.): Hans Boesch. In: Quarto. Journal of the Swiss Literary Archives. No. 14, 2001, ISSN  1023-6341 , table of contents .
  • Melanie Rohner, Elio Pellin: Feet, swamp and big mothers. Hans Boesch's "Kiosk" and Johann Jakob Bachofen's "Mother Law". In: Matriarchal Fictions. Johann Jakob Bachofen and the German literature of the 20th century. Eds. Ulrich Boss, Yahya Elsaghe, Florian Heiniger. Schwabe, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7965-3507-9 , pp. 247-278.

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personal data
SURNAME Boesch, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boesch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Frümsen
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2003
Place of death Stäfa