Jonas Lüscher

Jonas Lüscher at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Jonas Lüscher (born October 22, 1976 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer and essayist living in Germany .

Life

Jonas Lüscher grew up in Bern , where he also attended the Protestant teachers' seminar Muristalden (now called Campus Muristalden ) from 1994 to 1998 (training to become a primary school teacher ). After several years as a dramaturge and material developer in the Munich film industry , he studied at the Munich University of Philosophy (2005 to 2009). Lüscher also worked as a freelance lecturer.

He completed his studies in 2009 with a master's degree. This was followed by two years as a research assistant at the TTN Institute (Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität , at the same time as an ethics teacher at the State Business School Munich / Pasing.

In 2011, Lüscher moved to ETH Zurich . There he was working with Michael Hampe on a dissertation on the importance of narratives for the description of social complexity against the background of Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism. In 2012/2013 he spent nine months as a visiting researcher at the Comparative Literature Department at Stanford University on a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation . At the end of 2014, Lüscher left ETH without completing his dissertation.

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . Lüscher has lived in Munich since 2001. His first novella Spring of the Barbarians was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2013, as well as for the Swiss Book Prize . Lüscher received several awards; He was awarded the Swiss Book Prize in 2017 for his novel Kraft . Since 2018 he has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (literature department).

As Lüscher said in an interview, he was infected with COVID-19 during the pandemic in March 2020 . After developing severe pneumonia, he was artificially ventilated in the intensive care unit for several weeks. After his recovery, he criticized not only conspiracy theorists but also immunologists who played down the danger of this disease for people without previous illnesses. The pandemic reveals social problems very clearly, Lüscher continued.

plant

• with M. Hampe: Richard Rorty. In: Ralf Konersmann (Hrsg.): Handbuch Kulturphilosophie. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012.
• Now. Libretto for an opera by Mathis Nitschke , premiered at the Opéra National de Montpellier , November 30, 2012.
• Barbarian Spring . Novella. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64694-2 .
• The indecent majority. Essay. In Tages-Anzeiger , July 31, 2013
• About money. Essay. In language in the technical age. 210, June 2014, 52nd year.
• At the source. Narrative. In Edit. Spring 2015, ISSN  0943-8645 .
• In the haunted house. Essay. In Tages-Anzeiger. April 24, 2015
• Strength . Novel. Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70531-1 .
• Escape into telling. Poetics lecture. Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-74886-8 .

Awards

• 2013: Franz Hessel Prize for the novella Spring of the Barbarians
• 2013: Literary award from the Canton of Bern
• 2013: Bavarian Art Prize
• 2016: Hans Fallada Prize , for the novella Spring of the Barbarians
• 2017: Nomination for the German Book Prize , with Kraft
• 2017: Literary award from the Canton of Bern for strength
• 2017: Swiss Book Prize , for Kraft
• 2017: Tukan Prize , for strength

literature

• Stefan Hofer-Krucker Valderrama: The Perpetuated Catastrophe. Globalization and its downsides in Jonas Lüscher's “Spring of the Barbarians”. With some literary didactic comments. In: Almut Hille, Sabine Jambon, Marita Meyer (eds.): Globalization - Nature - Tell the future. Current German-language literature for international German studies and German as a foreign language. Munich 2015, pp. 39–57.
• Yvonne Hütter: Ethics and Aesthetics in Jonas Lüscher's "Barbarian Spring". In: Primerjalna književnost , No. 40.2, 2017, pp. 149–163. Digitized

Web links

Commons : Jonas Lüscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Publications by and about Jonas Lüscher in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Jonas Lüscher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jonas Lüscher in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Jonas Lüscher, CV, projects, publications ( Memento from August 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), on the web of the professorship (chair) for philosophy at the ETHZ
• Former employees: Jonas Lüscher, MA , on the ttn-institut.de website
• Jonas Lüscher at the CH Beck publishing house
• Ten-page reading of Spring of the Barbarians on YouTube
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jonas Lüscher at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview and book review: Jonas Lüscher - »Spring of the Barbarians« , with video interview, literaturcafe.de, May 22, 2013.
2. ↑ Media release by the LiteraturBasel association and the SBVV ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), September 19, 2013.
3. ↑ Jonas Lüscher. In: www.badsk.de. Retrieved February 3, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Interview with Jonas Lüscher: “These people are a catastrophe” , tagesanzeiger.ch, August 8, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020.
5. ↑ mathis-nitschke.com/wp/jetzt-de/ ( Memento from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Jonas Lüscher: The indecent majority . In: Tages-Anzeiger . July 31, 2013, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed October 28, 2017]).
7. ↑ An essay by Jonas Lüscher: In the Geisterhaus . In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 24, 2015, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed October 28, 2017]).
8. ^ Esther Schneider: "Kraft" by Jonas Lüscher. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, January 29, 2017, accessed on October 28, 2017 (Swiss Standard German). 
9. ↑ The Federal Government Minister of State for Culture and Media Monika Grütters Report of February 18, 2014: Franz Hessel Prize. German-French literary prize awarded , accessed on February 19, 2014
10. ↑ Swiss author honored in Germany. ( Memento from October 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung online , October 23, 2015.