Lorenz Lotmar

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Lorenz Lotmar (born June 7, 1945 in Aarau , † late June 1980 in Munich ) was a Swiss writer.

Life

Lorenz Lotmar grew up in Aarau. He later moved to Wabern . He began a commercial apprenticeship, which he broke off, like the high school before. He began to write at the age of 20 and attended drama school in Bern between 1965 and 1968 . He later made a living as a drummer. From 1972 Lotmar lived in Zurich , after 1976 in various German cities.

At the end of June 1980 Lotmar passed away by suicide . He left behind around 10,000 manuscript and typescript pages: novels, plays and radio plays, poems, letters, notes and sketches - including the extensive novel The Sacrifice in four versions and almost 250 handwritten pages in a heavily modified fifth version. Much remains to be discovered. Lorenz Lotmar's kafkaesque works are critical of the state, society and ideology .

Lotmar's estate is in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern .

Works

filming

  • The referee . TV film by Günter Kunert based on The Truth of K. Bisst by Lorenz Lotmar. First broadcast: ZDF, January 22, 1985

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Lotmar, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau
DATE OF DEATH June 1980
Place of death Munich