Peter Haffner
Peter Haffner ( pseudonym : Louis P. Laskey , born January 29, 1953 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist and writer .
Life
Peter Haffner completed a degree in philosophy and history at the University of Zurich . He then worked as a freelance journalist for Swiss, German and Austrian newspapers and from 1991 to 2002 as editor of the monthly magazine NZZ Folio of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He is also the author of literary texts.
In 1988 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Haffner was a correspondent for the supplement Das Magazin of the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger in California until 2014 . Today he works as a freelance author.
Awards
- 1985 International Journalism Prize of the City of Klagenfurt (Prize for literary journalism)
- 1994 Egon Erwin Kisch Prize (1st place)
- 1994 Zurich Journalism Prize
- 1996 Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich (literature)
- 1998 Zurich Journalism Prize
- 1999/2000 fellowship at the European Journalism College at the Free University of Berlin
- 2002 Prix Media of the Swiss Academy of Sciences
Works
- The scary patriots . Political reaction in Switzerland , Limmat Verlag, Zurich 1979, with Jürg Frischknecht , Ueli Haldimann and Peter Niggli
- How about Pachulski? , Ferdydurke Verlag, Zurich 1993
- The fixed idea. 13 attempts to explain the world; Einstein, Scheerbart, Schliemann, Pauling, Fort, von Däniken, Doyle, Oken, Reich, Linné, Poe, Miller, Svevo , NZZ Buchverlag, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-85823-621-7 ; as a paperback: Die fixe idee, 13 geniuses and their spleens dtv 20208, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-20208-4 .
- Heart on ice. Detective novel, Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 2000 (under the name Louis P. Laskey)
- Borderline cases. Between Poland and Germans , Volume 213 by Hans Magnus Enzensberger ed. " Other Library ", Frankfurt am Main 2002
- Zygmunt Bauman: Making the familiar unfamiliar. A conversation with Peter Haffner , Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2017
- As beautiful as dead. Detective novel. Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2018
Editing
- The Raven. Magazine for every kind of literature , No. 35 (science topic), Zurich 1993
- Alfred de Quervain : Across the Greenland Ice Sheet , Zurich 1998
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Haffner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Peter Haffner in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haffner, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laskey, Louis P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |