Paul Nizon

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Paul Nizon 1969 in Zurich

Paul Nizon (born December 19, 1929 in Bern ) is a Swiss art historian and writer .

Life

Paul Nizon is the son of a Russian chemist , his mother came from Bern. After graduation , he studied art history , classical archeology and German at the universities in Bern and Munich . In 1957 he was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on Vincent van Gogh ( The early style of drawing. Investigation of artistic form and its relationship to the artist's psychology and worldview ). phil. PhD . He then worked as a research assistant at the Historical Museum in Bern until 1959 . In 1960 he was a fellow at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma in Rome . In 1961 he was the leading art critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He gave up the prestigious post for an insecure life in literature . The associated decision-making process is reflected in literary terms in immersion. Log of a trip (1972). His work is "an autobiographical endless loop ... through novels and journals".

Nizon, who lived in Munich and Berlin and since 1977 in Paris , has been working as a freelance writer since 1962 . In 1962 Nizon was a guest of Group 47 in Berlin. There he met authors like Günter Grass , Martin Walser and Ingeborg Bachmann and read from his second book Canto , which appeared in 1963. He held various guest lectureships , around 1984 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and in 1987 at Washington University in St. Louis .

Paul Nizon was married three times: from 1953 to Brigitte Kaessler, from 1973 to Marianne Wydler and from 1980 to 2003 with Marie-Odile Roquet, who was 26 years his junior. He has four children in total.

Paul Nizon has been a member of the Swiss Authors Association since 1971 and the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center since 1980 . Since 2011 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . Nizon's archive is located in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern .

Awards and honors

Works

Original editions

  • Tapestries and antependums in the Historical Museum in Bern (with Michael Stettler ). Bern 1959.
  • The sliding places . Scherz, Bern and Stuttgart 1959.
    • New edition, slightly revised: Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-40221-8 .
  • Vincent van Gogh's beginnings, the drawing style of the Dutch era . Diss. Bern 1960.
  • Canto . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1963.
  • Joy of life in pictures of great masters . Mondo, Lausanne 1969.
  • Discourse in a tight spot. Essays on Swiss Art . Candelabra, Bern 1970.
  • Friedrich Kuhn. Hunger artists and palm traders . Publishing house “Um die Ecke”, Zurich 1970.
  • The stories end in the house . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-518-03746-3 .
  • Swiss made. Portraits, homages, curricula . Benziger, Zurich and Cologne 1971.
  • Immersion. Log of a trip . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-518-03747-1 .
  • Proud. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-518-03748-X .
  • The year of love. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-518-03744-7 .
  • But where is the life. A reader . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-518-04519-9 .
  • Go at writing. Frankfurt lectures . Suhrkamp ( edition suhrkamp 1328), Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-11328-3 .
  • In the belly of the whale. Caprichos . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-518-40159-9 .
  • Through the day and through the years. Essays, news, dispatches . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40389-3 .
  • The courier's eye . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40605-1 .
  • The inside of the coat. Journal 1980-1989 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-40716-3 .
  • Dog. Confession at noon. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-40997-2 .
  • Pigeon feeding . Suhrkamp (st 3063), Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-39563-7 .
  • The first editions of feelings. Journal 1961-1972 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-41360-0 .
  • Farewell to Europe . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-41397-X .
  • The script of love. Journal 1973-1979 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41639-1 .
  • The fur of the trout. Novel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-41711-8 .
  • The Republic of Nizon. A biography in conversation . Run by Philippe Derivière. Edition Selene, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-268-0 .
  • The courier's notes. Journal 1990-1999 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41972-4 .
  • Goya. Essay . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-19340-1 .
  • Forgery of documents. Journal 2000-2010 . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42260-1 .
  • Parisiana . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-001-7 .

Collective editions

  • Collected Works . 7 volumes. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41083-0 .
    • Volume 1: Canto
    • Volume 2: The stories end in the house
    • Volume 3: Immersion
    • Volume 4: Pride
    • Volume 5: The year of love
    • Volume 6: In the belly of the whale
    • Volume 7: Dog
  • Novels, short stories, journals . Suhrkamp (Quarto), Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-42124-6 .
  • The Siege of the World - Novel Years . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42386-8 .
  • Pino Dietiker, Konrad Tobler (ed.): Sehblitz - Almanac of modern art . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-46833-3 .

Editing

literature

  • Benita Cantieni : Swiss writer personally. Huber, Frauenfeld 1983, ISBN 3-7193-0883-9 , pp. 29-46.
  • Alfred Estermann (ed.): Paul Nizon. Frankfurt am Main 1984 (= booklet accompanying the exhibition at the City and University Library Frankfurt am Main ), ISBN 3-88131-035-5 .
  • Martin Kilchmann (ed.): Paul Nizon. Suhrkamp (st 2058), Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-38558-5 .
  • Heinz L. Arnold (ed.): Paul Nizon. Edition Text + Critique (Band 110), München 1991, ISBN 3-88377-382-4 .
  • Philippe Derivière: Paul Nizon - Life at Work. An essay. Suhrkamp (edition suhrkamp 2258), Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12258-4 .
  • Doris Krockauer: Paul Nizon. On the hunt for your own self. Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3896-X .
  • Stefan Gmünder (ed.): The Republic of Nizon. A biography in conversations (with Philippe Derivière). Edition Selene, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-268-0 . New edition: Haymon, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7099-7277-9 .
  • Renatus Deckert: Conversation with Paul Nizon. In: Sinn und Form 3/2006, pp. 314–326.
  • Heinz-Norbert Jocks: Gardens of Happiness. Of new beginnings, the promise of spring and the upswing of the soul. A conversation with Paul Nizon. In: Lettre International. No. 88, 2010, pp. 108-112.
  • Heinz-Norbert Jocks: On the lust for existence. A conversation with Paul Nizon. In: Kunstforum International. Vol. 253, 2018, pp. 322-328.
  • Ulrich Weber (Ed.): Paul Nizon. Quarto, Journal of the Swiss Literary Archives, No. 47, Slatkine, Geneva 2019, ISSN  1023-6341

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Naguschewski: Paul Nizon. In: international literature festival berlin. Retrieved January 27, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b Hilmar Klute : The Stranger. The Swiss Paul Nizon has lived in Paris for forty years and is valued and read there as one of the few German-speaking writers. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 30, 2017, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Paul Nizon: Partisan and Tramp! How I left Switzerland, found my school of life in Paris - and what Bern means . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 28, 2015, p. 51.
  4. ↑ Wend Kässens : Paul Nizon . In: Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature .
  5. ↑ Elio Pellin: Nizon, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. ↑ Sven Michaelsen: They put their hands around his neck and pressed them shut. In: SZ-Magazin . 12/2012 (interview with Paul Nizon).
  7. ↑ Rico Bandle: "My need for eroticism was insatiable". In: Weltwoche . July 28, 2016, p. 78 ff. (Interview).
  8. ↑ Martin Ebel: Where's the world fame? In: Tages-Anzeiger , February 17, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Nizon, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern