Markus Hediger

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Markus Hediger (born March 31, 1959 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer and translator .

Life

Markus Hediger spent his childhood and youth in Reinach . After graduation at the Neue Kantonsschule Aarau he studied from 1980 Romance and literary criticism (the latter at Werner Weber ) at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1990 with the licentiate from. In 1984/85 he was a German assistant at the Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux .

In 1975 he discovered France, especially Paris . There he met the Lebanese poet and playwright Georges Schehadé in 1979 , who opened up new horizons for him and whom he visited regularly until his death in 1989. Other important encounters for the development of his personality and his artistic understanding were the poets Erika Burkart and Guillevic as well as the novelists Hugo Loetscher , Walter Vogt , Otto Steiger , Julien Green and Georges Borgeaud .

Markus Hediger started at an early age to write adventure stories and later short stories and a novel in German. In 1977 he began to learn the French language. It still serves him today to express very personal things, whereas his mother tongue, German, is the language into which he translates novels, stories, poems and articles from French. In 1978 his first lyric text was written in French, and 18 years later his first volume of poetry, Ne retournez pas la pierre (1996), was published. Also in 1978 he started a new translation of the piece Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre and the one-act play Lucienne de Carpentras by Yves Navarre . His first translation was published while he was still a student: The Exile of Grado (1984) by Jacques Mercanton . This was followed by over twenty other publications after 1990.

Markus Hediger was a member of the Olten Group from 1991 to 2002 , which he represented at the CEATL - Conseil Européen des Associations de Traducteurs Littéraires - from 1999 to 2002 . He held the same function from 2003 to 2013 at the newly founded Association of Swiss Authors and Authors of Switzerland (AdS), of which he was a board member from 2007 to 2013.

2011 he was u. a. to the International Poetry Festival Rosario , 2012 to the Rilke Festival in Siders, 2014 to the International Poetry Festival Medellín , 2016 to the International Poetry Festival Lima and the Festival Europa in versi in Como , 2017 to the Literaturtage Zofingen and several times to the Seetaler Poesiesommer .

Markus Hediger has been President of the Peter Mieg Foundation in Lenzburg since December 2018 .

Works

Poetry

  • Ne retournez pas la pierre , romésie (1981–1995), Éditions de l'Aire, Vevey 1996, ISBN 2-88108-437-0 .
  • Là pour me souvenir / Qui per ricordare (traduzione di Alberto Panaro e Grazia Regoli), selection of 17 poems in French and Italian. Lietocollelibiri, Faloppio 2005, ISBN 88-7848-154-8 .
  • En deçà de la lumière romésie II (1996-2007), Éditions de l'Aire, Vevey 2009, ISBN 978-2-88108-886-5 .
  • Pour que quelqu'un de vous se souvienne , Alla Chiara Fonte, Viganello Lugano 2013.
  • L'or et l'ombre. Un seul corps , romésies I-III (1981–2016), foreword by René de Ceccatty , Éditions de l'Aire, L'Aire bleue, Vevey 2017, ISBN 978-2-94058-612-7 .

In German translation

Audio CD

  • Ne retournez pas la pierre - Don't turn the stone over. Français - German (CD Audio), translation by Yla M. von Dach, Arsmedia, Schöftland 1999, ISBN 3-909188-36-2 .

Poetry settings

  • Susanne Baltensperger, Au fond du son for organ, baritone and monochord (2010)
  • Vivien memo
    • Les Netsuké for soprano and piano (2010)
    • Cinq chants perdus pour soprano et piano (2010)
  • Constantinos Stylianou , L'Or et l'ombre for high voice and piano (2010-2011)

essay

  • Les après-midi de Georges Schehadé. In: Rencontre II. Éditions de l'Aire, Vevey 2009, ISBN 978-2-88108-900-8 .

anthology

  • Passages - Tales from French-speaking Switzerland 1970–1990. Benziger , Zurich 1991

Translations

  • Jacques Mercanton: The exile from Grado (fr. La Sibylle). Italian stories. Benziger, Zurich 1984
  • Étienne Barilier : The cat Musica (fr. Musique). Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1991
  • Bernard Comment: Servant of knowledge (fr. L'Ombre de mémoire). Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1992
  • Alice Rivaz : clouds in hand (fr. Nuages ​​dans la main). Novel. Huber, Frauenfeld 1992, and Lenos Verlag, Basel 1995
  • Jacques Mercanton: The hours of James Joyce (fr. Les Heures de James Joyce). Essay. Lenos , Basel 1993
  • Yves Laplace: An exemplary man (fr. Un Homme exemplaire). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1994
  • Alice Rivaz: Sleepless Night (fr. Jette ton pain). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1994, Lenos Taschenbuch 1997 and Swiss Library , Zurich 2005
  • Jacques-Étienne Bovard: Why do you smoke, Monsieur Grin? (fr. La Griffe). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1996
  • Élisabeth Horem : The Ring (fr. Le Ring). Novel. Lenos Verlag, Basel 1996
  • Yvette Z'Graggen : Matthias Berg (fr.Matthias Berg). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1997, Lenos paperback 2004 and 2014
  • Alice Rivaz: From memory, from oblivion (fr. De Mémoire et d'oubli). Stories. Lenos, Basel 1997
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: La Punta (fr. La Punta). Novel. Lenos, Basel 1999, Lenos Taschenbuch 2000 and 2008
  • Alice Rivaz: Like sand through your fingers (fr. Comme le sable). Novel. Lenos, Basel 2000 and Lenos Taschenbuch 2007
  • Alice Rivaz: The valley of the waves (fr. Le Creux de la vague). Novel. Lenos, Basel 2001
  • Rose-Marie Pagnard: Judith's Legacy (fr. La Leçon de Judith). Narrative. Lenos, Basel 2002
  • Jean-Bernard Vuillème: With the face to the back (fr. Face à dos). Novel. Lenos, Basel 2003
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: The Hills (fr. Les Collines). Narrative. Lenos, Basel 2004
  • Nicolas Bouvier : Outside and Inside (fr. Le Dehors et le dedans). Poems. Lenos, Basel 2005
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: pond under ice (French: Un Etang sous la glace). Novel. Lenos, Basel 2006; Leno's paperback 2013
  • Yvette Z'Graggen: Splinters of Life (fr. Eclats de vie). Lenos, Basel 2008; Leno's paperback 2016
  • Claire Krähenbühl : Ailleurs peut-être / Maybe somewhere else. Poems. Wolfbach Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-905910-38-4
  • Pierre-Alain Tâche : Dire adieu / farewell. Wolfbach, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-905910-91-9
  • Ken Bugul : No other choice? , Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7269-0187-5

Translations of poems and lyric prose, in particular by Edmond-Henri Crisinel, Edgardo Dobry , Federico García Lorca , Claire Genoux, Jean-Georges Lossier , Pericle Patocchi , Fabio Pusterla and Georges Schehadé.

Prizes and awards

  • 1981: Award of the Board of Trustees for the promotion of cultural life, Canton Aargau (for stories in German)
  • 1982: Prize of the Federal Office of Culture (for stories in German)
  • 1986: Award of the Board of Trustees for the promotion of cultural life, Canton Aargau (for a novel project in German)
  • 1990: Erika Burkart sponsorship from the Goethe Foundation on the occasion of the award of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Prize to Erika Burkart
  • 1992: Contribution (translation) to the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia
  • 1994: Translation Prize from UBS Swiss Bank Corporation
  • 1999: Contribution to work (translation) Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia
  • 1999: Contribution to the artistic work of the Aargauer Kuratorium (for En deçà de la lumière )
  • 2002: Honorary gift from the City of Zurich for Judith's legacy from Rose-Marie Pagnard
  • 2003: Year of work (translation) Canton of Zurich
  • 2009: Contribution to work (translation) from the Canton of Zurich for Yvette Z'Graggen's life splinters
  • 2012: Contribution of the Aargauer Kuratorium (for a poetry project)
  • 2016: Work grant from the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia (for a poetry project)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 11, 2017 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. Markus Hediger at the Rosario International Poetry Festival @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fipr.com.ar
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4_9i-vT_x0 Markus Hediger at the International Poetry Festival Medellín
  3. ↑ http://www.werliestwo.ch/4766/lyrische-partituren Markus Hediger at the Seetaler Poesiesommer
personal data
SURNAME Hediger, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich