Iso Camartin

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Iso Camartin (1998)

Iso Camartin (born March 24, 1944 in Chur ) is a Swiss publicist , writer and television presenter .

Life

Iso Camartin grew up in Disentis , where he attended the convent school. From 1965 he studied philosophy and Romance languages in Munich , Bologna and Regensburg ; he received his doctorate in 1971 on Kant and Fichte . From 1974 to 1977 he worked as a research fellow at the "Center for European Studies" at Harvard University . In addition to his journalistic work, he held lectureships at various Swiss universities.

From 1985 to 1997 he was full professor for Romansh literature and culture at the ETH Zurich and at the University of Zurich . In the academic year 1989/1990 Carmartin was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Between 1996 and 1998 he was also the presenter of the show Sternstunde Kunst on SF 1 . From 2000 to 2003 he was head of the cultural department of Swiss television . Since then he has been working as a freelance journalist and writer. In 2005 he gave the opening speech for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt.

Iso Camartin is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Swiss Writers' Association . He lives in Zurich .

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Kant's theory of schematism and its transformation in the early Fichte. For shaping the identity thinking . Dissertation, Regensburg 1971.
  • (Together with Robert H. Billigmeier): Land and people of the Rhaeto-Romans. A history of culture and language. Huber, Frauenfeld 1983.
  • Nothing but words? A plea for small languages . Artemis, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7608-0656-2 .
  • Praise to seduction. Essays on Indulgence . Artemis, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-7608-0731-3 .
  • Collisions. Stories and glosses . Artemis, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7608-1046-2 .
  • Viewed from Sils-Maria. Views from the roof of Europe . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40387-7 .
  • The Pila Library . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40646-9 .
  • Carnation and Caruso. About dogs. A romance (with Verena Aufferman). Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8270-0236-2 .
  • The devil on the pillar. 52 flash stories . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-40959-X .
  • Grace service . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41036-9 .
  • Lean out. Stories, glosses . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39571-8 .
  • Everyone needs their south . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-41446-1 .
  • Belvedere. The beautiful television . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-41688-X .
  • Am i european? A medical examination . CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-55071-3 .
  • The stories of Mr. Casparis . CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57036-0 .
  • Switzerland (series The Germans and their Neighbors ). CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57856-4 .
  • In the garden of friendship. A search for clues . CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62158-1 .
  • The art of praise: On the rhetoric of the eulogy . AB Die Other Bibliothek, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-847-70401-0 .
  • The journey to the cedars: notes by a monastery gardener (together with Verena Füllemann). Desertina Verlag, Chur 2019, ISBN 978-3-85637503-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Merck Prize 1998 to Iso Camartin
personal data
SURNAME Camartin, Iso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist, writer and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur