Lukas Dettwiler

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Lukas Dettwiler (born November 25, 1954 in Basel ; legal resident in Basel and Bretzwil ) is a Swiss translator and archivist .

Life

Dettwiler studied Nordic Philology at the Universities of Zurich and Uppsala and graduated from Zurich in 1986 with a licentiate . Until 2002 he worked in the archive of the Swiss radio DRS . He has been an archivist at the Swiss Literature Archive (SLA) since 2003 . He looks after the Einstein archive and the Hesse archive, as well as the bequests of Kurt Marti , Karl Stauffer-Bern and Jörg Steiner . In the SLA, he is responsible for the IMVOCS (Images et voix de la culture suisse) project, which includes video and film documents related to Swiss literature.

In 2000 he was awarded by the Robert Walser Society in an interpretation competition for a prose piece by Robert Walser . In the same year he received the Swedish Authors' Fund Award from the Sveriges Författarfond .

Dettwiler has translated works by Swedish writers into German, including Bengt Emil Johnson , Göran Tunström , Jesper Svenbro and Gunnar D. Hansson .

Translations

  • Jesper Svenbro: Ant paths. Figures of writing and reading in ancient Greece. Droschl, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-85420-551-1 .
  • Jesper Svenbro: My father, the pastor. Poems. Achius, Zug 2004, ISBN 3-905351-08-0 .
  • Bengt Emil Johnson: Moose Time. Poems. Droschl, Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-85420-717-7 (selection, translation and afterword).
  • Bengt Emil Johnson: House walls curving from the cold. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld 2008.
  • Jesper Svenbro: Echo to Sappho. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-03740-396-9 .
  • Bengt Emil Johnson: At home. Hybridenverlag, Berlin 2014.

Fonts

  • Massively saved . In: Mitteilungen der Robert-Walser-Gesellschaft 6, Zurich 2000, pp. 1–10
  • Gunnar D. Hansson and The Lomonosov Back . In: Akzente 5/10 (Ed. Michael Krüger), Hanser, Munich, 2010 ISBN 978-3-446-23543-4
  • Development work: rules, order, inventories . In: Passim 9/2011. Bulletin of the Swiss Literary Archives, p. 5 f.

Curated exhibitions

  • 2009: color and word. On the friendship between Hermann Hesse and Cuno Amiet . Hermann Hesse Höri Museum, Gaienhofen
  • 2009: Encounters on the Collina d'Oro. Hermann Hesse, Maria Holzleitner, Margherita Osswald-Toppi (with Elisabeth Rupp). Museo Hermann Hesse, Montagnola

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile at Waldgut Verlag , accessed on November 29, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Dettwiler, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel