Juerg Beeler

Jürg Beeler (2005)

Jürg Beeler (born June 9, 1957 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Jürg Beeler studied German , literary criticism and comparative literature at the universities of Geneva , Zurich and Tübingen . After graduating, he worked as a middle school teacher and was active as a reviewer as well as a travel and cultural journalist. Long stays abroad followed. Today Beeler lives as a freelance writer in Zurich and Bremen .

Awards

• 1987 Erwin Jaeckle Prize of the Goethe Foundation in Basel
• 1987 Working year for the Solothurn Board of Trustees for the Promotion of Culture
• 1989 working year for Pro Helvetia
• 1993 working year for the city of Zurich
• 1994 1st prize at the Meran Poetry Prize
• 1997 Literature Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
• 1999 working year in the Canton of Zurich
• 2000 working year of Pro Helvetia
• 2002 Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 2004 Artist in Residence Künstlerhäuser Worpswede

Works

• Day, stone fist, muzzle, day . Poems. Zurich, 1986 ISBN 3-250-01020-0 .
• Blues for non-swimmers . Novel. Innsbruck, 1996, Verlag Haymon , ISBN 3-85218-216-6 .
• The alphabet of clouds . Novel. Innsbruck, 1998, Verlag Haymon, ISBN 3-85218-271-9 .
• Love, said Stradivarius . Novel. Innsbruck, 2002, Verlag Haymon, ISBN 3-85218-381-2 .
• The weight of a night . Novel. Innsbruck, 2004, Verlag Haymon, ISBN 3-85218-457-6 .
• Solo for a waitress . Novel. Innsbruck-Vienna, 2008, Verlag Haymon, ISBN 978-3-85218-551-4 .
• The man who wrote Balzac's novels . Novel. Dörlemann Verlag , Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03820-005-5 .
• In strange rooms . Poems. Wolfbach Verlag , Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-905910-96-4 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Jürg Beeler in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Jürg Beeler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief portrait of Jürg Beeler