Martin R. Dean
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
- The flap of the wings of a Brazilian butterfly. Thomas Mann's " Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull " as a model of cosmopolitan narration. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 9./10. December 2006 ( online ).
Awards and honors
- 1983 Rauris Literature Prize for The Hidden Gardens
- 1988 Aargau Literature Prize
- 1988 Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry
- 1988 Migros Cooperative Works Award
- 1988/89 scholarship at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome
- 1990 Prize from the Frankfurt Authors' Foundation
- 1994 Prize for total works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1997 guest lecturer as poet in residence at the University of Essen
- 1999 Award of the Academy of Arts, Berlin , Art Award Berlin
- 2003 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
Web links
- Publications by and about Martin R. Dean in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Martin R. Dean in the catalog of the German National Library
- Webpage by Martin R. Dean
- Entry about Martin R. Dean in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Readings with Martin R. Dean to listen to and download on Lesungen.net
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dean, Martin R. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dean, Martin Rolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th July 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Menziken |