Margrit Baur
Margrit Baur (born October 9, 1937 in Adliswil near Zurich ; † January 16, 2017 near Zurich) was a Swiss writer and secretary .
Life and writing
Margrit Baur was born and raised in Adliswil. After the teachers' seminar, she attended a drama school in Vienna , where she also performed in small theaters for a few years after completing her training. Back in Switzerland, she worked in various "bread and butter" jobs in order to be able to devote herself to writing. She brought up this juxtaposition of professional life and “real” life above all in Survival (1981) and Downtime (1983). Margrit Baur lived in Gattikon near Zurich until 2017 .
Awards
- 1971 Approval from the City of Zurich
- 1981 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1981 Honorary gift from the City of Zurich
- 1983 Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
- 1984 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
- 1993 Schiller Prize from the Zürcher Kantonalbank
Works
Book editions
- Of streets, squares and more distant circumstances / The simple sentences and what else to say / An ongoing and ongoing story . 3 novels. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1971
- For example, somehow . Edition ProThese, Basel 1977
- To survive. An unsystematic investigation against the misery of every day . Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1981
- Downtime . A story. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1983
- Escape from stories . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1988
- All glory . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-40508-X
literature
- Linda M. Hess-Liechti: The prison continues next door ... Studies on mental prison and liberation issues in prose by Margrit Baur, Maja Beutler and Margrit Schriber . Akademischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-88099-327-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Margrit Baur in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Margrit Baur in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jael Bollag: «Flight of stories» and flood of images . In: Der Bund, Der Bund . 2018, ISSN 0774-6156 ( derbund.ch [accessed on February 14, 2018]).
- ↑ todesangeboteportal.ch , accessed on February 25, 2018
- ↑ Margrit Baur. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 47.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baur, Margrit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adliswil |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 2017 |
| Place of death | near Zurich |