Manfred Gsteiger

Manfred Gsteiger (born June 7, 1930 in Twann , Canton of Bern ) is a Swiss poet , novelist , essayist , literary scholar and translator .

Life

Gsteiger studied Romance languages at the University of Bern and at the Paris Sorbonne . He received his doctorate in 1958 with a thesis on Chrétien de Troyes . From 1967 he was a lecturer in literature at the University of Neuchâtel . Gsteiger was primarily concerned with German and French-language Swiss literature . As a translator, he worked on French works from the 13th to the 20th century.

In 1956 he married the ceramicist Pierrette Favarger (1924–2015).

The depictions of landscapes in the novels Chrestiens de Troyes. Literary tradition and artistic creation . (Dissertation) Bern 1958
Literature of transition. Essays . Bern / Munich 1963
Poetry and criticism. Reflections on literature . Bern / Munich 1967
West wind. On the literature of French-speaking Switzerland . Bern 1968
French symbolists in turn-of-the-century German literature . Bern / Munich 1971. ISBN 3-7720-0923-9
The contemporary literatures of Switzerland . Zurich / Munich 1974. ISBN 3-463-22004-0
La nouvelle littérature romande . Lausanne / Zurich 1978. ISBN 2-88015-081-7
Werther's changes and other essays on comparative literary history . Bern / Munich 1980. ISBN 3-7720-1503-4
Settings. Notes and feature sections . Zurich 1982 ISBN 3-85842-057-3
18th century tell dramas . (Ed., Together with Peter Utz) Bern / Stuttgart 1985. ISBN 3-258-03492-3
Dreams in world literature . Zurich 1999. ISBN 3-7175-1938-7
Ships in world literature . Zurich 2001. ISBN 3-7175-1968-9
Switzerland from the west. Contributions to cultural dialogue . Bern u. a. 2002. ISBN 3-906769-33-X

personal data
SURNAME	Gsteiger, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss poet, novelist, essayist, literary scholar and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Twann , Canton of Bern