Martin R. Dean

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Martin R. Dean (born July 17, 1955 in Menziken / Aargau ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Martin Rolf Dean was born in Menziken as the son of a Trinidadian doctor of Indian origin and a Swiss woman. In 1976 he passed his matriculation examination at the Cantonal School in Aarau . In 1977 he began studying German , philosophy and ethnology at the University of Basel . In 1986 he completed his studies with a licentiate thesis on Hans Henny Jahnn's novel Perrudja .

Over the years he made numerous trips and lived abroad for a long time. a. in South America , Portugal , France , Greece and Italy . From 1990 to 1998 he taught at the School of Design in Basel , from 1992/93 he was a city observer for the city of Zug. Since 1999 he has been teaching German and philosophy at the high school in Muttenz .

Dean lives in Basel. In 1995 he married Silvia Henke, a Germanist, with whom he has a daughter.

Works

  • The hidden gardens . Novel. Munich: Carl Hanser 1982.
  • The feathered woman. Five variations on love . Munich: Carl Hanser 1984. Munich: DTV 1987: ISBN 3-423-10758-8
  • The man without light , Roman. Munich: Carl Hanser 1988. Munich: DTV 1996: ISBN 3-423-12139-4
  • But me. A journal . Munich: Carl Hanser 1990
  • Gilbert's Last Judgment. Drama. Frankfurt am Main: Publishing House of the Authors 1990 ( Theater Basel , 1992)
  • The guayana knot . Novel. Munich: Carl Hanser 1994. Munich: DTV 1997: ISBN 3-423-12304-4 .
  • The ballad of Billie and Joe . Novel. Munich: Carl Hanser 1997 ISBN 3-446-18925-4 .
  • Monsieur Fume or The Fortune of Forgetfulness . Short prose. Munich: Carl Hanser 1998 ISBN 3-446-19481-9 .
  • With Silvia Henke: Sleepless . Frankfurt am Main: Publishing House of the Authors 1999
  • My fathers . Novel. Munich: Carl Hanser 2003. Munich: DTV 2005: ISBN 3-423-13306-6 .
  • Between a spruce tree and a palm tree. Annotated text collection for intercultural German lessons in secondary schools . Bern: hep 2005 ISBN 3-03905-149-0 .
  • A suitcase full of wishes , Roman. Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-902497-92-5 .
  • Wrong quartet , novel. Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-99027-052-3 .
  • Bowing to mirrors. About the own and the foreign . Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-99027-069-1 .
  • Why we're together , Roman. Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-99027-228-2 .

Essays

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (June 9, 2019)