Reto Hänny
Reto Hänny (born April 13, 1947 in Tschappina , Canton of Graubünden ) is a Swiss writer .
Life
Hänny spent his childhood on his parents' mountain farm . After elementary school he attended the teacher training college in Chur , where he was trained as a primary school teacher. He practiced this profession for a few years, after which he traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa and the Near and Middle East and stayed in Venice , Amsterdam and regularly in Paris for study purposes . After working as a stage worker at the city theater in Chur, he moved to Zurich , where he began studying German and ethnology at the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich .
In September 1980 he witnessed the youth riots in Zurich and their suppression by the police. Since Hänny himself had been arrested and ill-treated at the time, he left Switzerland and moved to Berlin; He processed his Zurich experiences in the book Zurich, early September .
At the Klagenfurt Days of German-Language Literature in 1994, he won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize with his text Guai .
Reto Hänny is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland . He lives in Zollikon and Graubünden.
Awards
- 1985 Max Frisch Work Year for the City of Zurich
- 1986 Honorary gift from the Canton of Graubünden
- 1987 working year for the canton of Zurich
- 1991 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1994 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- 2015 Schiller Prize from Zürcher Kantonalbank for Blooms Schatten
Works
- Ruch. A report . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979. Second version: Suhrkamp ( es 1295), Frankfurt am Main 1984
- Zurich, early September . Suhrkamp (edition suhrkamp 1079), Frankfurt am Main 1981. ISBN 3-518-11079-9
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Flight . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1984
- New, "painted over" version: Suhrkamp ( BS 1414), Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-518-22414-X
- Giorgio, guardati! (Afterword to CF Meyers Jürg Jenatsch ). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1988
- Sounds and echoes . A reading. (Afterword to Robert Pinget's Passacaglia ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991
- At the bottom of the head. Confusions of a Central European in Central Europe . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-40326-5
- Chiaroscuro. A picture book . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-40770-8
- Guai , in: Klagenfurter Texte, Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 1994, edited by Hannes Hauser and Siegbert Menzinger, pp. 17–29. Piper, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-492-12015-6
- Bloom's shadow . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-199-3 ( Ulysses )
- Fall. The third book from the flight. Novel. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-95757-870-9
Web links
- Publications by and about Reto Hänny in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Reto Hänny archive in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Reto Hänny in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
- Entry about Reto Hänny in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Another flight to unimagined heights Review of the new version of Flug from the WOZ from April 19, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hänny, Reto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tschappina |