Juerg Acklin
Jürg Acklin (born February 20, 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss psychoanalyst and writer .
Life
Jürg Acklin is the son of an electrical engineer and grew up in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich . He completed his social science studies at the University of Bremen in 1974 with a dissertation on the early socialist Wilhelm Weitling . He then worked as a teacher and was involved in school experiments; at times he ran an alternative school .
In parallel to working as an editor for Swiss television , Acklin completed a psychoanalytic training; since 1983 he has been practicing as an analyst. He lives in Zurich.
Acklin is the author of narrative works in which he realistically portrays critical interpersonal relationships and generational conflicts against the background of a reality that has been alienated into the bizarre and fantastic.
He is third married and has two daughters and one son.
Awards
- 1971 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
- 1972 Bremen Literature Prize for Alias
- 1996 Book Prize of the City of Zurich for Frog Song
- 2002 Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
- 2005 Zolliker Art Prize
Works
- The lonely dreamer . Poems. Rainbow, Zurich 1967
- Michael Häuptli. A young man's dream . Flamberg, Zurich 1969
- Alias . A text. Flamberg, Zurich 1971
- The prevalence . A text. Flamberg, Zurich 1973
- The communist trial in Zurich in 1843 (with Christoph Kappeler). Bremen 1974
- The rise of the captive balloon . Steinhausen, Munich 1980
- The kangaroo man . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich / Frauenfeld 1992, ISBN 3-312-00177-3
- The tango couple . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich / Frauenfeld 1994, ISBN 3-312-00197-8
- Frog song . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich / Frauenfeld 1996, ISBN 3-312-00217-6
- The father . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich / Frauenfeld 1998, ISBN 3-312-00241-9
- Defect . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-312-00290-7
- Trust is good . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-312-00364-8
literature
- Thomas Hürlimann : Jump into the meat trap. A speech on the 70th birthday of the writer Jürg Acklin . NZZ, February 23, 2015 .
- Peer Teuwsen : We crave overfathers . Interview, in: NZZ, March 18, 2017, p. 21.
Web links
- Publications by and about Jürg Acklin in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Jürg Acklin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Jürg Acklin in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : “Was that really the case back then?” Interview with Jürg Acklin and Andrina Acklin, December 24, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Acklin, Juerg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss psychoanalyst and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |