Juerg Laederach

Jürg Laederach (born December 20, 1945 in Basel ; died March 19, 2018 there ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Jürg Laederach began after the completion of the Humanistic Gymnasium in Basel a study of mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich . He later moved to the University of Basel , where he studied Romance languages , English and musicology . In 1969 he stayed in Paris as a scholarship holder and German teacher ; He then worked for a year as a copywriter in Basel, where he has lived as a freelance writer and translator ever since .

In 1986/87 Laederach held a guest professorship for poetics at the University of Graz , in 1987 he was Poet in Residence at the University of Essen . In 1996, in protest against the publication of Peter Handke's Serbian-friendly texts on the Bosnian War, he separated from his long-standing publishing house, Suhrkamp , to which he later returned. In addition to his literary activities, Laederach, who played the saxophone , clarinet and piano , occasionally appeared as a musician with the Basel jazz formation "BIQ". He also wrote as a jazz critic for magazines.

Jürg Laederach was the author of experimental prose as well as of plays and radio plays . He also excelled as a translator from English and French .

Jürg Laederach was a member of the Olten Group , a member of the Graz City Park Forum and a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .

Awards

• 1976 and 1978: Promotion Prize of the City of Bern
• 1985: Manuscript Prize of the State of Styria
• 1988: Literature Prize of the City of Basel
• 1990: Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 1996: Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• 2001: Grand Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern
• 2005: Italo Svevo Prize

Works

• Dawn incursion. Frankfurt am Main 1974.
• In the course of a long memory. Frankfurt am Main 1977.
• The whole life. Frankfurt am Main 1978.
• The teacher promises the negress warmer tears. Frankfurt am Main 1978.
• A mild winter. Frankfurt am Main 1978.
• Wittgenstein in Graz. Frankfurt am Main 1979.
• The Book of Lamentations. Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• The pale end of small desires. Frankfurt am Main 1981.
• Proper operation. Frankfurt am Main 1981.
• 69 ways to play the blues. Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• Death of a waiter. Frankfurt am Main 1984 (with Andres Müry ).
• Flugelmeyer's madness. Frankfurt am Main 1986.
• Body on fire. Graz 1986 (with Andres Müry).
• Sigmund or The Lord of Souls kills his. Frankfurt am Main 1986.
• Rigid with terror. Frankfurt am Main 1988.
• The Second Sense or Unsentimental Journey through a Field of Literature. Frankfurt am Main 1988.
• China. Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Emanuel. Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Passion. Frankfurt am Main 1993.
• Eccentric, Art and Life. Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Shadow men. Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• About Robert Walser. Salzburg u. a. 1997 (with William H. Gass ).
• Portrait. Baden / Switzerland 1998 (with Felix von Muralt ).
• In Hackensack. Basel u. a. 2003.
• Depeschen to Milan (edited and with an afterword by Michel Mettler ), Frankfurt am Main 2009.
• Harmfuls Hell: in thirteen episodes. Stories. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42243-4 .

Editing

• Adolf Wölfli : «0 degrees 0/000; Kindled by love, = flames ». Frankfurt am Main 1996.

Translations

• Walter Abish : Alphabetical Africa. Basel u. a. 2002.
• Walter Abish: 99th Berlin 1990.
• Walter Abish: Straight through the big nothing. Frankfurt am Main 1983.
• Frederick Barthelme : Coloratura. Frankfurt am Main 1993.
• Frederick Barthelme: Tracer. Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Frederick Barthelme: Moon de luxe. Frankfurt am Main 1988.
• Maurice Blanchot : The one who didn't go with me. Engeler, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-938767-13-8 .
• Maurice Blanchot: The Last Man. ibid. 2005.
• Maurice Blanchot: At the wanted moment. ibid. 2004.
• Maurice Blanchot: Thomas the Dark. Frankfurt am Main 1987.
• Maurice Blanchot: The death sentence. Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• Michael Brodsky : The facts and their shell. Frankfurt am Main 1982.
• Marguerite Duras : The truck. Frankfurt am Main 1987.
• William H. Gass : In the heart of the heart of the country. Salzburg 1991.
• William H. Gass: Order of the Insects. Salzburg [u. a.] 1994.
• William H. Gass: Pedersen's child. Salzburg [u. a.] 1992.
• John Hawkes : Travesty. Frankfurt am Main 1986.
• Thomas Pynchon : late bloomer. Reinbek 1985 (with Thomas Piltz).
• Styles Sass : More than these few days. Stuttgart 1998.
• Gertrude Stein : Why I like detective stories. Berlin 1989.

literature

• Dariusz Komorowski: Aesthetics of Movement in the Novels of Jürg Laederach. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2248-3 .
• Brigitte Marschall : Jürg Laederach . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1066 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürg Laederach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jürg Laederach at perlentaucher.de
• Entry about Jürg Laederach in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Jürg Laederach on the Engeler Verlag website
• Roman Bucheli: Writer Jürg Laederach died at the age of 72. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 20th March 2018
• Peter Burri: Nothing is as strange as reality - on the death of the Basel writer Jürg Laederach. In: Basler Zeitung , March 21, 2018