Peter K. Wehrli

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Peter K. Wehrli (born July 30, 1939 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer and filmmaker .

Life

Peter K. Wehrli - also known as PKW - grew up as the son of the writer Paul Wehrli in Zurich. He studied art history and German in Zurich and Paris. Until 1999 he worked as an editor for Swiss television . He was a member of the Olten group ; since 2003 he has been a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland .

He captures experiences on his extensive travels primarily in the form of short prose . For around 40 years he has been working on his main work, the catalog of everything , in which he tries to describe individual observations, numbered and given a keyword, usually in one sentence as precisely as possible. From 1975 this work was published in single deliveries with a ring binder , in 1999 in a first comprehensive book edition; the latest version was published in 2008 by Ammann Verlag in Zurich . Many of his texts have also appeared in magazines and anthologies .

Awards

Works

prose

  • Arrivals . Rainbow, Zurich 1969
  • Albania trip to European China . Rainbow, Zurich 1971
  • Thunderstorm, that's me! Staub, Egg 1973
  • Catalog of the 134 Most Important Observations During a Long Railway Journey . Translated by Roger Frood. Los Amigos del Libro, La Paz - Cochabamba 1974
  • Catalog of everything . In single deliveries with ring binder. Zurich 1975ff
    • Book edition: Catalog of everything. 1111 numbers from 31 years . Knaus, Munich 1999
      • extended new edition: catalog of everything. From the beginning to the new beginning . Ammann (Meridiane 126), Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-250-60126-5
  • Catalog of the 134 most important observations during a long train journey . Rainbow, Zurich 1978
  • Celluloid paradise. Observations in the Mythical Market . Edition Howeg, Hinwil 1978
  • Tingeltangel . Classen, Zurich 1982
  • All of everything. The book on performance . Arche, Zurich 1986
  • Actually Xurumbambo. A land register . Places, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-85830-060-8
  • Bruno Weber - the architect of his dreams (illustrated book). Benteli, Wabern 2002, ISBN 3-7165-1263-X
  • 365 numbers from the “Catalog of Everything”. With Peter K. Wehrli through the year 2005 (370 sheets as a table tear-off calendar). Limmat, Zurich 2004
  • The new Brazilian catalog. 148 numbers from the “Catalog of Everything” (German and Portuguese). Stähli, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-906135-51-9
  • "Cape Verdean December" , Phoebus series No. 21, Scaneg Verlag, Munich, 2014
  • "Catalog of Everything and Other Stories" , published by Jeroen Dewulf, University of California, Berkeley, Department of German, 2014
  • “For Iota. To the eightieth! ”/“ Para iota. Aos Oitenta! “ The wood cutter and Cordelista J.Borges, German and Portuguese, Stahli.Recife.Editora, 2015
  • "O Quadrado es os 5 temas" ("The square and its 5 themes") Portuguese, Ciedima Central Impressora e Editora de Maputo, Mozambique, 2017

Theatrical performances

  • Charivari . Premiere: Zurich 1984
  • The Biberstein catalog . Premiere: Solothurn 2002

TV reports

  • If the stones could talk . DRS, Zurich 1975
  • Stateless in nowhere. The poet Walter Mehring . DRS, Zurich 1979
  • Dada not only lives, Dada blossoms! The Dadaist Marcel Janco . DRS, Zurich 1983
  • The world is called Brazil. In the footsteps of Blaise Cendrars . DRS, Zurich 1985
  • Profession: writer. Max Frisch , Otto F. Walter . DRS, Zurich 1986
  • Sign of everything. The world of images of Brazil . DRS, Zurich 1995
  • Everything is in everything. Kurt Guggenheim's Zurich . DRS, Zurich 1996
  • Feast for Ernesto. The sculptor Bernhard Luginbühl . DRS, Zurich 1997
  • I have to become invisible. Robert Rauschenberg . DRS, Zurich 1998
  • If there weren't any literature ... Keywords about Max Frisch . DRS, Zurich 1998
  • Stayed alive for a lifetime. The author Hugo Loetscher . DRS, Zurich 1999
  • If there were no more stories ... Keywords about Peter Bichsel . DRS, Zurich 2001
  • Travel without leaving. The publisher Egon Ammann . DRS, Zurich 2002
  • ... the more real reality. The artist Franz Gertsch . DRS, Zurich 2002
  • Everything moves. Encounter with Jean Tinguely . DRS, Zurich 2003
  • «Thunderstorm, that's me!» Peter K. Wehrli's preparations for a self-portrait . SF, Zurich 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Wehrli, Peter K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss television journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich