Martin Suter

Martin Suter at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012

Martin Suter (born February 29, 1948 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Martin Suter's father had a doctorate in engineering and worked as a manager in photo and film chemistry, his mother worked in the commercial sector. Suter grew up with two siblings for the first five years of his in Zurich- Oerlikon and later in Friborg . He also attended the Collège Saint Michel in Freiburg im Üechtland and completed his training with a General Certificate of Education from London University . In 1968 he began training as a copywriter at the well-known Basel advertising agency GGK . After completing his training, he became the creative director of GGK at the age of 26 . Together with Robert Stalder he founded the advertising agency Stalder & Suter and was president of the Art Directors Club of Switzerland . At the same time, he has always written, including reports for Geo magazine and numerous scripts for film and television.

Suter has been working as an author since 1991. From 1992 to the beginning of 2004 he was responsible for the weekly "Business Class" column in Weltwoche , and until April 2007 it appeared in the magazine of the Tages-Anzeiger . In 1995 Suter received the Austrian Industry Prize at the Joseph Roth Competition in Klagenfurt . Selected business class columns are available in book form. He wrote columns for the monthly magazine NZZ Folio under the title “Live right with Geri Weibel”.

His breakthrough as a writer came in 1997 with his first novel Small World , which - like all works since then - was published by Diogenes Verlag in Zurich . Small World , The Dark Side of the Moon and A Perfect Friend combine a crime story that plays a rather subordinate role with approaches that are critical of society and medicine. Suter himself describes these first three novels as a “neurological trilogy” because the protagonist has to struggle with identity crises. For Small World , Suter was awarded the honorary gift of the Canton of Zurich in 1997 and the French literary prize Prix ​​du premier roman étranger in 1998. Small World was filmed in 2010 by the French director Bruno Chiche with Gérard Depardieu and Alexandra Maria Lara in the leading roles. A perfect friend was made into a film by Francis Girod in France under the title Un ami parfait .

Suter worked with the Swiss musician Stephan Eicher for his album Eldorado , released in April 2007 , for which he wrote some lyrics. Eicher had already presented some of the new songs ( Charlie ) in 2006 during an exclusive concert at the Blue Balls Festival in Lucerne ; the single I know nid was es isch , written by Suter , was released in 2007 together with the album.

Suter also wrote two comedies for the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich : Über den Dingen (2004) and Mumien (2006), with which he also had success as a playwright.

Suter received the German Crime Award (National 2) in 2003 for A Perfect Friend . In 2007 he was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize for his novel The Devil of Milan . In 2010 he received the Swift Prize for Economic Satire from the Market Economy Foundation for his satirical column Business Class on the weaknesses of the managerial caste. In January 2011, Suter was recognized by Swiss television as a regular bestselling author and most successful writer in Switzerland with the 2010 SwissAward in the culture category.

Suter lived with his second wife, the fashion designer Margrith Nay Suter, and his daughter alternately in Ibiza and in Panajachel on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala . In 2009, his adopted son was killed in an accident. Today Suter lives in Zurich. He also owns a riad in Marrakech , where he stays regularly.

Works

Martin Suter, 2010

Novels

• Small World . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-257-06146-3 .
• The dark side of the moon . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-257-06231-1 .
• A perfect friend . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-257-06306-7 .
• Purple, purple . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-257-06386-5 .
• The devil of Milan . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-257-06534-5 .
• The last Weynfeldt . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-06630-2 .
• The cook . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-06739-2 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 8th to March 7th, 2010 )
• The time, the time . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-06830-6 .
• Montecristo , Thriller, Diogenes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-06920-4 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from March 7th to 20th, 2015 )
• Elephant . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-257-06970-9 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 4 to March 17, 2017 )

«Allmen crime series»

• Allmen and the dragonflies . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-257-06777-4 .
• Allmen and the pink diamond . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-257-06799-6 .
• Allmen and the dahlias . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-06860-3 .
• Allmen and the missing María . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-257-06887-0 .
• Allmen and the erotic . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-257-07033-0 .
• Allmen and the Koi . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-257-07075-0 .

Book editions of the columns

"Business Class"

1. Business class. Manager in the back pocket . Columns. Weltwoche-ABC, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85504-153-9 .
2. Business class. More managers in your pocket . Columns. Weltwoche-ABC, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-85504-159-8 .
3. Business class. Even more managers in the back pocket . Columns. Weltwoche-ABC, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85504-170-9 .
4. Business class. Stories from the world of management . Diogenes, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-257-06257-5 .
5. Business class. New stories from the world of management . Diogenes, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-257-06329-6
6. Huber stretches out and other stories from the business class . Diogenes, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-257-06468-3
7. Among friends and other business class stories . Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-06568-8
8. The Bonus Secret and Other Business Class Stories . Diogenes, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-06712-5
9. Switch off. Business Class is on vacation . Diogenes, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-30009-3 .
10. Everything under control: a business soap . Diogenes, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-257-30028-4 .
11. Cheers - Celebrate with Business Class . Diogenes, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-257-30021-5 .

"Live properly with Geri Weibel"

• Live properly with Geri Weibel . Diogenes, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-257-23273-X .
• Live properly with Geri Weibel. New episode . Diogenes, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-257-23302-7 .
  • Together as: Live properly with Geri Weibel. All the consequences . Diogenes, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-257-23460-0 .

Plays

• 1982: The Chäller family (dialect comedy ).
• 1985: Sommersong (dialect comedy).
• 2005: Above Things (Comedy). World premiere : March 8, 2005 at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich .
• 2006: Mummies (comedy). Premiere: November 29, 2006 in the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich.

Scripts

• 1986: Jenatsch
• 1993: mid-season
• 1994: Crime scene : men's boxer
• 1994/95: The Director (TV series)
• 1999: Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland
• 2009: Giulia's disappearance . Director: Christoph Schaub . Premiere: August 8th, 2009 at the Locarno Film Festival
• 2011: night noise . Director: Christoph Schaub .

Audio books

• The devil of Milan (unabridged). 6 audio CDs, read by Julia Fischer . Diogenes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-257-80038-X .
• A perfect friend. Brigitte Audiobook Edition - Strong Voices. The men (shortened). 4 audio CDs, read by Sebastian Koch . Random House Audio Editions 2006, ISBN 978-3-86604-749-5 .
• Small World (abbreviated). 5 audio CDs, read by Dietmar Mues . Diogenes, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-80220-7 .
• The last Weynfeldt (unabridged). 7 audio CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich . Diogenes, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-80200-9 .
• Purple, purple (abbreviated). 5 audio CDs, read by Daniel Brühl . Diogenes, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-80285-6 .
• The cook (unabridged). 6 audio CDs, read by Heikko Deutschmann . Diogenes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-80289-4 .
• Allmen and the dragonflies (unabridged). 4 audio CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich. Diogenes, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-257-80305-1 .
• Allmen and the pink diamond (unabridged). 4 audio CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich. Diogenes, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-257-80313-6 .
• The time, the time (unabridged). 7 audio CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich. Diogenes, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-80330-3 .
• Allmen and the dahlias (unabridged). 4 audio CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich. Diogenes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-06860-3 .
• The dark side of the moon (unabridged). 7 audio CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich. Diogenes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-80316-7 .
• Everything under control: a business soap (unabridged). 2 audio CDs, read by Stefan Kurt . Diogenes, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-257-80354-9 .
• Montecristo (unabridged). 6 audio CDs, read by Wanja Mues . Diogenes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-80362-4 .
• Elephant (unabridged). 6 audio CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich. Diogenes, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-257-80381-5 .
• Allmen and the erotic (unabridged). 4 audio CDs, read by Gert Heidenreich. Diogenes, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-257-80394-5 .

Audiobook anthologies

• There used to be more lametta. Sneaky Christmas stories. Read by Ingrid Noll , Anna König and Martin Suter. Diogenes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-257-80030-4 .
• It used to be more beach! Sneaky travel stories. Read by Doris Dörrie , Uta Hallant et al. Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-80170-5 .
• There used to be more tinsel. Sneaky Christmas stories. Read by Hans Korte , Cordula Trantow et al. Diogenes, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-257-80167-5 .
• There used to be more beach! Sneaky travel stories. Read by Doris Dörrie, Jochen Striebeck et al. Diogenes, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-80222-1 .
• Not another traffic jam! Sneaky travel stories. Read by Anna König and Tommi Piper . Diogenes, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-80267-2 .

items

• The black noses from the glacier. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980,9, pp. 60-80. Experience report on the Valais black-nosed sheep, which would have become extinct if you didn't look after them. ISSN  0342-8311

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Film adaptations

• 2006: A perfect friend under the title Un ami parfait . Directed by Francis Girod . Leading actors: Antoine de Caunes , Carole Bouquet , Martina Gedeck .
• 2009: Purple, Purple . Director: Alain Gsponer . Leading actors: Daniel Brühl , Hannah Herzsprung , Henry Hübchen .
• 2010: The last Weynfeldt . Director: Alain Gsponer. Leading actors: Stefan Kurt and Marie Bäumer . A co-production by Swiss television SRF and ZDF .
• 2010: Small World under the title Je n'ai rien oublié . Director: Bruno Chiche . Leading actors: Gérard Depardieu , Alexandra Maria Lara .
• 2012: The devil of Milan . Director: Markus Welter . Leading actors: Regula Grauwiller , Ina Weisse and Max Simonischek .
• 2014: The cook . Director: Ralf Huettner. Leading actors: Hamza Jeetooa , Jessica Schwarz and Hanspeter Müller .
• 2015: The dark side of the moon . Director: Stephan Rick . Leading actors: Moritz Bleibtreu , Jürgen Prochnow and Nora von Waldstätten .
• 2016: Allmen and the secret of the dragonflies . Director: Thomas Berger . Leading actors: Heino Ferch , Samuel Finzi , Andrea Osvárt
• 2017: Allmen and the secret of the pink diamond . Director: Thomas Berger . Leading actors: Heino Ferch , Samuel Finzi , Tomas Spencer
• 2019: Allmen and the secret of the dahlias . Director: Thomas Berger . Leading actors: Heino Ferch , Samuel Finzi , Holger Handtke

literature

• Manfred Durzak : Literary X-ray images of reality. Using the example of three current short stories by Martin Suter, Irene Bohrn-Prugger and Dieter Wellershoff. In: Studi germanici 40 (2002), H. 3, pp. 443-457.
• Judith Kopf: Martin Suter - a Swiss satirist. Thoughts on satire using the example of “Living properly with Geri Weibel”. VDM , Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-9468-7 .
• Miriam Seidler: Between dementia and freedom. Reflections on the relationship between age and gender in contemporary literature. In: Gray theory. The categories of age and gender in cultural discourse . Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-03706-2 , pp. 195-212.
• Sara Tigges: "Lose yourself ...?" Loss of identity and Alzheimer's in novels by Bayley, Block, Moore and Suter . In: Corinna Schlicht (Ed.) Identity. Questions about self-images, physical dispositions and social transformations in literature and film . 2nd edition, Laufen, Oberhausen 2012, pp. 97–110. ISBN 978-3-87468-284-8 .

Web links

Commons : Martin Suter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Martin Suter with new columns and unpublished content
• Publications by and about Martin Suter in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Martin Suter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Martin Suter in the meta catalog of the Swiss university libraries and the Swiss national library Swissbib
• Short biography and reviews of works by Martin Suter at perlentaucher.de
• Martin Suter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Nina Weissensteiner: Not for cold showers. Interview with Suter in full text, date , 1/2004.
• Ulrich Greiner : Martin Suter: platinum blonde, navy blue Martin Suter's amazingly praised novels are surprisingly poorly written . Die Zeit , January 5, 2011, No. 2
• Hannes Nussbaumer: "Zurich shouldn't take itself so seriously." Interview in: Tages-Anzeiger from December 24, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.munzinger.de/document/00000024190
2. ↑ Interview with the Wiener Zeitung, 2002 ( Memento from April 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Martin Suter receives the Swift Prize for Economic Satire 2010. On the website of the Market Economy Foundation.
4. ^ SF Swiss television
5. ↑ Martin Suter loses son by accident, in: bazonline.ch ( Memento from March 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Hannes Nussbaumer: "Zurich shouldn't take itself so seriously." Interview in: Tages-Anzeiger from December 24, 2014, accessed on December 31, 2014.
7. ↑ Martin Suter is restarting "Business Class" . In: Handelsblatt of February 28, 2019.
8. ↑ Alain Claude Sulzer: School of Immorality Review in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
9. ↑ The story of Sabu Barisha, which was perhaps a fairy tale in FAZ from January 26, 2017, page 10
10. ↑ Film information on IMDB.de
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