Klaus Stiller

Klaus Stiller (born April 15, 1941 in Augsburg ) is a German writer .

Life

Klaus Stiller is the son of a doctor. He attended the Realgymnasium Augsburg and graduated from high school in 1961 in Lauingen / Donau . From 1961 to 1968 studied he German and Romance studies in Munich , Grenoble and Berlin . In 1963/64 he was a participant in the circle around Walter Höllerer at the Literary Colloquium Berlin . After completing his studies, Stiller was a freelance writer and contributed to literary magazines and radio stations. In 1971 he was an editor at Melzer Verlag for a short time ; from 1981 he was literary editor at the Berlin RIAS .

Klaus Stiller is one of the main representatives of the German-language documentary literature of the 1970s. His experimental, often satirical texts are concerned with social criticism through language criticism . In addition to his prose works, Stiller has also written radio plays and numerous radio features .

Klaus Stiller, who is a member of the PEN Center Germany, was awarded the Hermann Hesse Prize in 1977 .

Works

• The barrier . Olten [et al.] 1966
• H. Neuwied [et al.] 1970
• Diary of an auxiliary bishop . Berlin 1972
• The fascists . Munich [et al.] 1976
• Dream jobs . Munich [et al.] 1977
• Christmas . Munich [et al.] 1980
• The holy year . Munich [et al.] 1986
• The classics of Italian literature . Düsseldorf 1988
• To the poet - his fatherland . Munich [et al.] 1991
• Oh, the distant land . Berlin 1992
• From the people of the Germans . Zurich [et al.] 2000

Editing

• Italian stories of the 20th century . Munich [et al.] 1982

Translations

• Eduardo de Filippo: Huh, those ghosts! Berlin 1977
• Eduardo de Filippo: The Great Magic Berlin 1978
• Luce D'Eramo: As long as the head lives Stuttgart 1976

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Stiller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Stiller in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )