Martin Stadler

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Martin Stadler (born June 29, 1944 in Altdorf ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Martin Stadler grew up in a working-class family in Altdorf. He attended the primary school in Altdorf, the first two classes of the grammar school at the Kapuziner boarding school in Stans and the secondary school in Altdorf. He completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic . He then studied mechanical engineering at the HTL Lucerne until 1968 . After a year and a half as a mechanical engineer, he passed the entrance exams for the University of Bern . There he studied economics , law and media studies and graduated in 1973 with a licentiate . He worked as an archivist , journalist and lecturer . Stadler has been primarily a professional writer and small publisher (Uranos Verlag) since 1977 .

Stadler is the author of columns, reports, novels, short stories, diaries, plays and a radio play. Some of his fictional works are located in the literary place called Schynigen, which, according to connoisseurs, has some similarities with central Switzerland. With a regional background, they explore the human condition in philosophical and historical terms, both in a political and in a private context.

Stadler is married and has two children.

Works

  • ALMANACH , novel in the dress of an essayistic collage, 2015
  • VERGÄNG VERGÄNGLICH , Diary Texts 2008–2010, 2010
  • LANGUAGE SEARCH in the ring of one's own region , 2009
  • FATALITIES , Four Tales, 2008
  • APPLICATION FOR A IGELS , novel, new version 2007
  • DEFENSE. Murder, melancholy and love between Shrovetide and Easter, discipline and addiction, money and spirit, region and migration , Roman, 2006
  • MR TILL confuses the museum assistant Alois in the Wattigwiligerturm in Bürglen in Uri or Wilhelm Tell for locals. A Swiss love comedy , novella, 2004
  • HERR TILL IM WATTIGWILIGERTURM or Wilhelm Tell for locals , piece, 2004
  • CLEAN UP , novel, 2001
  • Hunger. Unlove, birth, crime, life, blasphemy, madhouse and death stories from the estate of a Westerner, basically a love story that might have succeeded , Roman, 2000
  • STOP. Interior and exterior views of the small European region of Uri , 1995
  • LIFE. A hymn of morality , radio play, 1991
  • ON THE EDGE. Disrespectful and other stories and reports from the middle of seven hundred years of original Switzerland , 1991
  • BREAK TIME. Observed in Central Switzerland 1977–1983 , 1983
  • CRAZY BET , play, 1983
  • IN SCHYNIGEN , short stories, 1983
  • APPLICATION FOR A HEDGEHOG , novel, 1982
  • THE NEW POSTILLIONS , short stories, 1979
  • URNER WORKER STORIES , 1979
  • ALTDORF. 100 years from the history of a village , 1978
  • UR (CH) IGES , regular monthly column, 1977–1994
  • HISTORY OF URNERIAN SOCIAL POLICY , 1974

Awards

  • 1981: Arthur Weidmann Prize
  • 1982: Year of work for the Heinrich Danioth Foundation
  • 1992: 1st "Wort" prize of the Brunner Prize
  • 1992: IRG sponsorship award
  • 1997: Acknowledgment award from the Marianne and Curt Dienemann Foundation
  • 2001: Individual Work Prize Switzerland. Schiller Foundation for the novel Hungertuch
  • 2005: Central Switzerland Literature Prize
  • 2006: Johann Peter Hebel Prize
  • 2009: Scholarship from the Zug cultural foundation Landis & Gyr in Berlin

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personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdorf