Jörg Steiner
Jörg Steiner (born October 26, 1930 in Biel / Bienne ; † January 20, 2013 there ) was a Swiss writer .
Life
Jörg Steiner - son of a civil engineering technician - attended the advanced seminar in Bern after a broken apprenticeship as a druggist . After completing his apprenticeship, he first worked as a teacher in a home for the difficult-to- educate in Aarwangen and then until 1971 as a primary school teacher in Biel / Bienne and Nidau .
Steiner interrupted his work several times for longer trips and stays abroad. a. in France , Spain , USA and East Africa . 1971/1972 he received a scholarship at the Basel Theater . From 1972 to 1978 Steiner was a city councilor in Biel, where he also lived.
Steiner often describes in his works - based on personal experiences during his youth and his time as a teacher - the problems of social outsiders. He became known to a wide audience through his collaboration with the illustrator Jörg Müller on a series of picture books .
Jörg Steiner had been a member of the Bern writers' association and the Olten group since 1960 ; since 1970 he has been a member of the Association of German Writers .
Jörg Steiner was married to the gallery owner Silvia Steiner, who died nine months before him. Jörg Steiner died of cancer.
Awards
- 1967: Charles Veillon Prize
- 1969: Literature Prize of the City of Bern
- 1976: Grand Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern
- 1982: Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize
- 1990: German Youth Literature Prize
- 1994: Erich Fried Prize
- 1995: Literature Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1997/1998: City clerk in Bergen-Enkheim
- 1998: Berlin Literature Prize
- 2001: Hans Erich Nossack Prize
- 2002: Max Frisch Prize
Works
- Have a nice day. Biel 1955. (together with Edwin Keller)
- Episodes from Ravenland. Küsnacht 1956.
- An hour before sleep. St. Gallen 1958.
- Evening suit for sale. Bern 1961.
- Detention. Olten et al. 1962.
- Polish chestnuts. Grenchen 1963.
- The black box. Olten et al. 1965.
- A knife for the honest finder. Olten et al. 1966.
- The tailor Kikrikri sits on Mount Sinai. Neuwied et al. 1969.
- Rabio. Zurich 1969.
- Pele his brother. Cologne 1972. (together with Werner Maurer)
- Snow down to the lowlands. Darmstadt et al. 1973.
- When there were still limits. Frankfurt am Main 1976.
- The bear who wanted to stay a bear. Aarau 1976. (together with Jörg Müller)
- The rabbit island. Aarau et al. 1977. (together with Jörg Müller)
- It could have been a giraffe. Stuttgart 1979.
- The people in the sea. Aarau et al. 1981. (together with Jörg Müller)
- Tear up the net. Frankfurt am Main 1982.
- The ice flower forest. Aarau et al. 1983. (together with Jörg Müller)
- Anton's secret. Frankfurt am Main 1985. (together with Anton Pieck)
- Olduvai. Frankfurt am Main 1985.
- The man from the bear pit. Aarau et al. 1987. (together with Jörg Müller)
- Strange country. Frankfurt am Main 1989.
- The new town musicians. In: uprising of the animals. Aarau et al. 1989. (together with Jörg Müller)
- Weißenbach and the others. Frankfurt am Main 1994.
- The colleague. Frankfurt am Main 1996.
- What do you want to do when the black man comes? Aarau et al. 1998.
- Who dances to Shostakovich's music? Frankfurt am Main 2000.
- I survive with your voice. Stories. Frankfurt am Main 2005.
- A cherry tree on the Pacific Ocean. Frankfurt am Main 2008.
- In Robert Walser's armchair: postcard. Edited by Hanne Kulessa. Limmat, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85791-762-2 .
literature
- Daniel Weber: Jörg Steiner , Zurich 1988
- Jörg Steiner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Publications by and about Jörg Steiner in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Jörg Steiner's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Jörg Steiner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
- Entry about Jörg Steiner in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Thomas Feitknecht: Steiner, Jörg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Jörg Steiner in the Bergen-Enkheim town clerk archive
- Obituaries
- Jörg Steiner is dead. In: Tages-Anzeiger .net / Newsnet January 21, 2013.
- Beatrice von Matt : On the death of the writer Jörg Steiner. With poetic and anarchic force. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from January 21, 2013.
- Christine Lötscher: The truth is a story. Obituary in: Tages-Anzeiger from January 21, 2013.
- Ruth Schweikert : With eyes like windows inside. In: Die Wochenzeitung , 5/2013 of January 31, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Steiner died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from January 21, 2013
- ↑ Peer Teuwsen : Obituary Jörg Steiner. "I am gifted to be afraid." In: Die Zeit 5/2013 of January 24, 2013
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Steiner, Jörg |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Biel / Bienne , Canton of Bern |
DATE OF DEATH | 20th January 2013 |
Place of death | Biel / Bienne |