Lorenz Lotmar
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
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Bite. Narration . Steinhausen, Munich 1979
- New edition as: The Truth of K. Bisst . Places, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-85830-020-9
- The palm line man . Places, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-85830-028-4
- Somehow get a Sunday behind you . Places, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-85830-034-9
- The sacrifice. A novel . Places, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-85830-055-1
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
- Dimitris Depountis: The way through the "sacrifice" - Lorenz Lotmar's main work. Reconstruction of a writing process . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-87877-767-1
- Elio Pellin: "With a steaming body". Sporty bodies with Ludwig Hohl , Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Walther Kauer and Lorenz Lotmar . Chronos, Zurich 2008, ISBN 3-0340-0880-5
Web links
- Lorenz Lotmar's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Publications by and about Lorenz Lotmar in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Lorenz Lotmar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lorenz Lotmar Inventory of the estate in the Swiss Literary Archives
personal data | |
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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 |