Peter Weber (writer)

Peter Weber (born April 22, 1968 in Wattwil , Switzerland ) is a Swiss writer and musician .

Life

Peter Weber lived in Zurich for several years after finishing school. Here he worked on several projects with musicians from different fields, including a. Bahnhofsprosa live with Denis Aebli (drums, electronics, Vox theremin), Singing Eisen, Spangen und Gleise with the four poetic Jew's Harps ( Bodo Hell , Michel Mettler , Anton Bruhin , Peter Weber) together. He also performed with the improvising string quartet “Die Firma” from Zurich and Bern. In 1993 his first novel Der Wettermacher appeared .

Awards

1993: Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
1994: Sponsorship award from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
2000: Prize for individual works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation for silver and salads
2000: Sponsorship award from the St. Gallen Cultural Foundation
2002: Cultural award from the Canton of Zurich (year of work)
2004: Town clerk of Bergen -Enkheim
2007: Solothurn Literature Prize
2008: Schiller Prize of the Zürcher Kantonalbank for the years without melodies
2008: Alemannic Literature Prize for The Years Without Melody
2012/2013: Scholarship from the international artist house Villa Concordia Bamberg

Works

Autograph

prose

The weather maker . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1993
Silver and Salbader. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1999
Station prose. Miniatures. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2002
The years without melodies. Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007

Essays

Die Welt der Synesthesien / Synaesthetic Worlds (on Peter Mettler's Gambling, Gods & LSD , 2002).
Tendrils, phrases, blue flowers: everything grows out of the undergrowth . Liner notes on Lucas Niggli : Big Zoom, Big Baal , Intakt CD 083, 2002.
Zwischen den Mushroom threads / In among the mushroom threads . In: Konrad Bitterli (ed.): The Great Unknown. Andres Lutz, Anders Guggisberg . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2002, pp. 14-16.
How Roman Signer lured salmon to Eastern Switzerland. A fantasy . In: Beat Wismer, Stephan Kunz, Sibylle Omlin (eds.): Mussels and flowers. Literary texts on works of art , Zurich 2003, pp. 341–345.
Switzerland is a city, the German language an event . In: BELLA triste No. 6, 2003.
From Toggenburg to Berlin Alexanderplatz. A language awakening experience with Alfred Döblin and its later aftermath (inaugural address to the city clerk in Bergen-Enkheim, September 3, 2004). In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 27, 2004.

literature

Andreas Mauz: Peter Weber. Chroniqueur des monts et des sons. In: FEUXCROISES. Littératures et Echanges culturels en Suisse. Revue du Service de Presse Suisse. 7, 2005, pp. 73-89 (Dossier, French).

Web links

Commons : Peter Weber (writer) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Publications by and about Peter Weber (writer) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Literature by and about Peter Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry about Peter Weber in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
Peter Weber on culturactif.ch
Peter Weber in the town clerk archive Bergen-Enkheim

Individual evidence

^ Alemannic Literature Prize. 2008 - Peter Weber, Switzerland. City of Waldshut-Tiengen, archived from the original on May 4, 2013 ; Retrieved December 14, 2010 .
^ Weber, Peter ( Memento from March 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Weber, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wattwil

[1] Alemannic Literature Prize. 2008 - Peter Weber, Switzerland. City of Waldshut-Tiengen, archived from the original on May 4, 2013 ; Retrieved December 14, 2010 .

[2] Weber, Peter ( Memento from March 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )