Peter Bichsel

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Peter Bichsel (born March 24, 1935 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss writer , best known for his short stories and columns .

Peter Bichsel (2012)
Peter Bichsel in Solothurn (2011)

Life

Peter Bichsel grew up as the son of a craftsman, initially in Lucerne and from 1941 in Olten . He trained as a primary school teacher at the teacher training college in Solothurn . In 1956 he married the actress Therese Spörri († 2005); he is the father of a daughter and a son. In 1957 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SPS), from which he left again in 1995. He describes himself as a socialist . He worked as a primary school teacher until 1968 (and for the last time in 1973). Between 1974 and 1981 he worked as a personal advisor and speechwriter for Federal Councilor Willi Ritschard , with whom he was friends. He was also close friends with the writer Max Frisch until his death in 1991. Jörg Steiner is said to have played a decisive role in his literary breakthrough , who referred him to Peter Lehner for first readings and later to Otto F. Walter for the publication of the “Milchmann anthology ”. Bichsel lives in Bellach near Solothurn.

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Autograph

After smaller publications - especially poetry - in newspapers, a first attempt at prose appeared in 1960 as a private print . In the winter of 1963/1964 he took part in a prose writing course in Berlin, led by Walter Höllerer . A documentation volume , prose writing (1964), and a joint novel by the participants (including Hubert Fichte and Klaus Stiller ), Das Gästehaus (1965), to which Bichsel contributed the first chapter, testify to this course .

In 1964 he became known in one fell swoop with his briefest stories in Actually, Frau Blum the Milkman ; the Group 47 received him enthusiastically and gave him 1965 their Literature Prize. In 1968 his first columns were published in Weltwoche , which since then (currently in Schweizer Illustrierte ) have been his main work, so to speak. In these columns he often spoke on political issues. In 1970 he left the Swiss Writers' Association together with 21 other well-known authors and participated in the founding of the Olten group .

Peter Bichsel is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.

His legacy is in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern .

Awards

Works

Books

  • Tries over Gino. Private print 1960.
  • Actually, Mrs. Blum would like to get to know the milkman . (21 short stories including The Milkman , The Daughter and San Salvador ). Walter , Olten 1964.
  • The guest house. Joint novel, with Walter Höllerer and others. Walter, Olten 1965.
  • The seasons (novel). Luchterhand , Neuwied 1967.
  • Children's stories. (7 short stories). Luchterhand, Neuwied 1969.
  • The Swiss's Switzerland. (Essays). Arche, Zurich 1969; extended new edition: Arche, Zurich 1989.
  • Floors. Prose (Ed. Heinz F. Schafroth ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1974 ( UB 9719).
  • Stories at the wrong time. Columns 1975–1978. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1979.
  • The reader. Storytelling. Frankfurt poetics lectures . Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1982 (SL 482).
  • Schoolmasterships. (Speeches and essays). Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1985.
  • The busant. About drinkers, cops and the beautiful Magelon . Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1985.
  • Somewhere else. Columns 1980–1985. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1986 (SL 669).
  • Would you like to have been Mozart? Meditation for Mozart's Credo Mass KV 257 / Sermon for the others. A speech for television preachers. TVZ , Zurich 1990.
  • On the contrary. Columns 1986–1990. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1990 (SL 920).
  • To the city of Paris. Stories. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Cuny stories. (Ed. Tamara S. Evans). Pro Helvetia, New York 1994.
  • There was nothing to be done about our postman. Columns 1990-1994. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • A table is a table. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • The total democrats. Essays on Switzerland. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998 ( es 2087).
  • Cherubin Hammer and Cherubin Hammer. (Narrative). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • At the end of the revolution - states without citizens. Liechtenstein Academic Society, Vaduz 1999.
  • Learned everything from me. Columns 1995-1999. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • Rail travel. (Ed. Rainer Weiss). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2002 ( IB 1227).
  • Doctor Schleyer's isabelle-colored winter school. Columns 2000-2002. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • The sweet poison of letters. Speeches on literature. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004 (es 2353).
  • Where we live. Stories (Ed. Rainer Weiss). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2004 (IB 1253).
  • From the invention of the scriptures. (Speech on the occasion of the award of the honorary doctorate). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Columns, columns. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • Stories. Commented by Rolf Jucker. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005 (sbb 64).
  • December stories. (Ed. Adrienne Schneider). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2007 (IB 1295).
  • Johnson isn't coming today. Columns 2005–2008. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • About God and the world. Texts on religion (Ed. Andreas Mauz). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009 (st 4154).
  • That's easy to say. Sentences from the work (Ed. Beat Mazenauer, Severin Perrig). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2011 (st 4294).
  • In the port of Bern in spring. Columns 2008–2011 . Radius, Stuttgart 2012.
  • Talk about the weather. Columns 2012–2015 . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015.
  • The donkey also has a soul. Early texts and columns 1963–1971. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2020 (st 5004).

Radio plays, radio broadcasts

  • 1971: Summary of boredom. Radio play for the Swiss radio DRS
  • 1983–1997: numerous contributions to the Zytlupe program . at Radio DRS
  • 2015: Ms. Blum actually wants to get to know the milkman , director: Päivi Stalder, SRF

Record recordings

Movies

literature

  • Hans Bänziger : Peter Bichsel. Way and work . 2nd rev. u. supplementary edition. Benteli, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-7165-1169-2 .
  • Herbert Hoven (Ed.): Peter Bichsel. Information for readers . Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1984, ISBN 3-472-61494-3 .
  • Herbert Hoven (Ed.): Peter Bichsel. Texts, data, images . Luchterhand, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-630-61997-5 .
  • Rolf Jucker (Ed.): Peter Bichsel. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1996, ISBN 0-7083-1380-9 .
  • Herbert Hoven (Ed.): Change in Olten. About Peter Bichsel . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-39602-1 .
  • Chalit Durongphan: Poetics and practice of storytelling with Peter Bichsel . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3091-5 .
  • Rudolf Probst (Ed.): Peter Bichsel. Quarto, Journal of the Swiss Literary Archives, No. 40/41, Slatkine, Geneva 2015, ISSN  1023-6341 , table of contents .

Web links

Commons : Peter Bichsel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fredi Lerch : Fortunately, never fit for escape. In: WOZ . No. 12, March 24, 2005.
  2. ↑ The democratic minority socialist. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Quarto No. 40-41, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fredi-lerch.ch
  3. ↑ Peter Bichsel: That's what I've got from it . In: Renatus Deckert (ed.): The first book. Writer on her literary debut . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-45864-8 , pp. 55-58 .
  4. ↑ prix libref. to Peter Bichsel


personal data
SURNAME Bichsel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne