Heinz F. Schafroth

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Heinz Friedrich Schafroth (born March 18, 1932 in Möhlin ; † March 12, 2013 in Biel ; resident in Röthenbach in the Emmental ) was a Swiss journalist and literary critic .

Life

Heinz F. Schafroth studied German and Classical Philology in Bern and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1957. From 1957 to 1992 he worked as a high school teacher at the Deutsches Gymnasium Biel , where he taught Greek and German, had been married to the secondary school teacher Ruth Friedli since 1959 and lived in Alfermée . From 1978 to 1999 he was also a lecturer at the ETH Zurich , where from 1997 he headed the literary program at the Collegium Helveticum .

Schafroth wrote as a literary critic primarily for the Frankfurter Rundschau . He was a sponsor of the authors Gerhard Meier , Peter Weber and Friederike Mayröcker and editor of text collections on Ilse Aichinger , Peter Handke and Brigitte Kronauer . He wrote a monograph on Günter Eich .

In 1997 he received the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize and in 2001 became a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . In 2006 he received the honorary gift of the Canton of Bern for teaching literature . In 1979 he was a founding member of the Solothurn Literature Days Association .

Fonts (selection)

  • as Ed .: The Visibility of Things  : about Brigitte Kronauer. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1998, ISBN 3-608-93460-X .
  • Gerhard Meier : Signals and gusts of wind. Poems and prose. Selection and epilogue by Heinz F. Schafroth. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989.
  • Friederike Mayröcker: Raising the arms in fire , poems and prose, selection and epilogue by Heinz F. Schafroth, Stuttgart: Reclam 1984, ISBN 3-15-008236-6 .
  • Günter Eich. Munich: Beck u. Text + criticism 1976. ISBN 3-406-06263-6 .
  • Peter Bichsel : Floors. Prose. Selected and ed. by Heinz F. Schafroth, Reclam, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-15-007919-5 .
  • as publisher: Ilse Aichinger: dialogues, stories, poems . Reclam, Stuttgart 1971.
  • The decision at Grillparzer . Bern: Haupt, 1971. Diss. Phil.-hist. Bern, 1957.

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SURNAME Schafroth, Heinz F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schafroth, Heinz Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Möhlin
DATE OF DEATH 12th March 2013
Place of death Biel