Peter Fahr

Peter Fahr, 2015

Peter Fahr (* May 16, 1958 in Spiegel near Bern as Pierre Farine ) is a Swiss writer , poet and poster campaigner.

Live and act

Peter Fahr attended primary and secondary school in Spiegel and Wabern near Bern . He briefly attended the drawing teacher seminar in Basel and studied German , linguistics and art history at the University of Bern , but did not graduate.

Among other things, Fahr writes poems, short stories, stories, essays and children's stories. His texts address nature and civilization, religion and politics, faith and hope, love and death. Fahr first attracted attention through public campaigns with world-format posters: 1982 aphorisms , 1983 autotod and 1988 dialogue with the silent majority . After the literary collage Berner Kälte , which deals with the youthful attitude towards life in the modern city, he published TagTraumLiebe , relationship stories in the field of tension between spring love. In 1993, in the volume of essays Ego and Gomorrha , he coined terms such as suicide society, environmental fascism and ecological world civil war in view of the increasing destruction of nature. In the following years his time criticism dealt a. a. with genetic manipulation, militarism, xenophobia, racism, culture and literature.

Fahr has published political, nature and love poetry in six volumes of poetry (2018 combined in the anthology Selten nur ). In some poetry and prose works such as Negligent , Menetekel and Early Love , he combined text and photography. In 2015 his dialogic autobiography Everything is not everything was published .

He is a member of the Swiss Authors 'Associations (AdS), the Berne Writers' Association (BSV), the German- Swiss PEN Center (DSPZ) and ProLitteris .

Fahr is married and childless and lives in Bern .

Works

prose

• Bernese cold. Collage. Erpf, Bern 1983, ISBN 3-256-00048-7 .
• DayDreamLove. Stories. Nettle, Wädenswil 1985, ISBN 3-85578-016-1 .
• Ego and Gomorrah. Texts against the suicide society. Essays, with a foreword by Jean Ziegler . Nemesis, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-9520343-0-4 .
• Early love. A dance of death. Narrative. Offizin, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-907496-83-1 .
• Everything is not everything. Dialogues, autobiography. Offizin, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-906276-19-9 .
• The shadows dance. Narrative. Münster Verlag, Basel 2020, ISBN 978-3-907146-94-1 .

Poetry

• Nights as light as days. Poems with pictures by Max Spring . Benteli, Bern 1990, ISBN 3-7165-0718-0 .
• Careless. A poetic picture book with a foreword by Kurt Marti . Nemesis, Bern 1995, ISBN 3-9520343-1-2 .
• Close to the infinite. Love poems, with a foreword by Dorothee Sölle . Nemesis, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-9520343-2-0 .
• Warning sign. Photograms at the turn of the millennium, with a foreword by Hans Saner . Nemesis, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-9520343-3-9 .
• Beyond us. Poems, with a foreword by Konstantin Wecker . Offizin, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-906276-06-9 .
• Decadences. Poems at the time. Münster, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-905896-76-3 .
• Rarely only. The poems, with an afterword by Volker Michels . Münster, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-905896-86-2 .

Children's picture books

• Nono hippopotamus. With pictures by Hanspeter Schmid. Palazzo, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-907588-12-6 .
• Pups! with pictures by Carola Holland . Annette Betz, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-219-11063-0 .
• When Santa Claus was sick…. With pictures by Petra Probst. Annette Betz, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-219-11093-2 .

Poster promotions

• Aphorisms. Bern 1992
• Auto death. Bern 1983
• Dialogue with the silent majority. Bern, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Land, Zurich and Langenthal 1988

Radio plays

• The last game. Radio conveyor belt, Bern 1984.
• Civil. A radiophonic attempt. Together with Bänz Friedli . Radio conveyor belt, Bern 1986.
• Alli Tröimeli fell. Together with Ursula Eggli and Jakob Paul Gillmann . Radio DRS 1 1994.

Awards (selection)

• 1985: Short Stories Award from the Steigenberger hotel chain
• 1987, 1994: year of work for the city and canton of Bern
• 1990: "Environmental Protection Award 1990", awarded by the Touring Club Switzerland
• 1995: “Most Beautiful Swiss Book 1995” award for negligence , awarded by the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA)
• 2000–2015: grants from numerous foundations and cultural institutions
• 2017: Jury and audience award of the “TEXTEN” writing competition organized by the Open Church of the Holy Spirit in Bern
• 2018: 2nd prize in the “ Der Bund Essay Competition” on the subject of migration
• 2019: 1st prize in the poetry competition as part of the 9th week of action against racism in the city of Bern

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Fahr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Fahr's website with a collection of links and an overview of works

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bibliography of the Bern authors 1950–1993
2. ↑ literapedia Bern
3. ↑ Peter Fahr - Author Lexicon. In: literaturport.de. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Heinz Bäbler: Posters against facades. In: Sunday weekly illustrated. No. 32. August 4th 1982.
5. ↑ Fredi Lerch: One against the rest of the world . In: WOZ The weekly newspaper . No. 23 , 1983 ( fredi-lerch.ch [accessed March 4, 2019]).
6. ↑ Susanne Hochuli: Instead of writing, he taps slogans on posters. In: Berner Zeitung . August 13, 1988.
7. ^ Uneasiness in Bern's streets and alleys. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 28, 1983.
8. ↑ Peter Fahr: Day - Dream - Love by EH ST. In: The Bund. March 29, 1986.
9. ↑ Peter Fahr: Ego and Gomorrah. Nemesis, Bern 1993, pp. 149-155 and 191-226.
10. ↑ Erich Schöndorf: From humans and rats. In: The workshop. Göttingen 1998, p. 278.
11. ↑ Alexander Sury: Keep talking to yourself. In: The Bund. August 31, 2015 ( derbund.ch ).
12. ↑ Peter Fahr: A look into hell. In: Berner Tagwacht. April 20, 1991.
13. ↑ Peter Fahr: Sisyphus in Uniform. In: Berner Tagwacht. October 21, 1989.
14. ↑ Peter Fahr: Mr. Vogel. In: The Bund. 4th April 2018.
15. ↑ Peter Fahr: White cross on a brown background? In: Glarean Magazine. June 30, 2017 ( glarean-magazin.ch ).
16. ^ Peter Fahr: Culture, Prices and Strategy. In: Ensuite. from January 2018 ( peterfahr.ch PDF).
17. ↑ Lukas Vogelsang: All or Nothing. In: Ensuite. September 2015 ( ensuite.ch ).
18. ↑ Roland Rottenfusser: The way inwards leads beyond us. In: Behind the Headlines. February 21, 2019 ( hinter-den-schlagzeilen.de ).
19. ↑ Alexander Sury: An upright in crooked time. In: The Bund. October 18, 1996.
20. ↑ Konrad Tobler: Warning words to pigs of people. In: Berner Zeitung. February 21, 2005.
21. ↑ Hans See: Enough is not enough. In: BIG Business Crime. No. 2/2016 ( peterfahr.ch PDF).
22. ↑ Website of the Swiss Authors (AdS)
23. ^ Website of the Bernese Writers' Association (BSV)
24. ↑ Website of the German-Swiss PEN Center (DSPZ)
25. ↑ ProLitteris website