Louis Jent (writer)

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Louis Jent (born January 26, 1936 in Zurich ; † May 23, 2014 in Aarau ) was a Swiss writer , screenwriter , director and film producer .

Life

At the age of 17, Louis Jent published his first short story. After graduating from high school, he wrote literary and film reviews for Zurich Week and Der Sonntag . In 1963 he read from a chapter of a novel at the Group 47 meeting in Saulgau . 1965 his novel excuses ( Piper Verlag ), 1966, the short story collection Smile again Cynthia with the first German-language pop stories.

In 1967 he gave lectures on the subject of pop and literature , including at the Bauhaus Dessau . From 1967 to 1968 he worked as a screenwriter for Bavaria . From 1968 he directed television films based on his scripts. From 1971 to 1989 he also shot commercials for Louis Jent Productions . In 1989 he moved to Spain and built a house. At the end of the nineties he began to write again, short stories appeared in literary magazines and in NULL. Alt und Älter was reprinted several times (1st prize in the adult category in the short story competition "Old and Young" of the Health and Environment Department of the City of Zurich).

Movies

Publications

  • Excuses. Piper, Munich 1965.
  • Smile again, Cynthia. Piper, Munich 1966.
  • Carl Bucher. E. Bloch, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-9520287-0-3 .
  • Fritz Billeter, Peter Killer (ed.): 1968 - Zurich is upside down: rebellion, refusal, utopia. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85881-220-9 (co-author).
  • Caroline Kesser, Louis Jent, Bice Curiger : Friedrich Kuhn (1926–1972) - The painter as an outlaw. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85881-245-2 .
  • My experienced Zurich . In: Signum , sheets for literature and criticism , summer 2012, p. 62 ff.

literature

  • Short biography in: paperback of the Olten group. Verlag Benziger, Zurich / Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-545-36217-5 , p. 53.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Jent. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 481, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ^ Author and filmmaker Louis Jent died at werbewoche.ch, accessed on July 24, 2014
  3. ↑ Dieter E. Zimmer : Group 47 in Saulgau (PDF; 93 kB), Die Zeit , Feuilleton, November 8, 1963, p. 17 f.
  4. ↑ Stories about old age that impress ( memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Media release of the City of Zurich, February 9, 2005, accessed on August 12, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-zuerich.ch
  5. ↑ Feature film "The sixth program". in: List of works by Condor Films
  6. ^ Signum, Leaves for Literature and Criticism , Summer 2012
personal data
SURNAME Jent, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, screenwriter and advertising specialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2014
Place of death Aarau