Silvio Blatter

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Silvio Blatter (born January 25, 1946 in Bremgarten AG ) is a Swiss writer and painter .

Life

Silvio Blatter comes from a working-class family. He attended the district school in his home town and from 1962 to 1966 the teachers' seminar in Wettingen (AG). He then worked as a primary school teacher in Aarau for six years . In 1970 he worked for several months in a company in the metal industry.

In 1972 he took up the study of German language and literature at the University of Zurich in which he broke after six semesters. In 1974 he worked again in industry, this time as a machine worker in the plastics industry. In 1975 he completed an apprenticeship as a radio play director at the Swiss Radio DRS . After longer stays in Amsterdam and Husum , he settled in 1976 as a freelance writer in Zurich . Today he lives in Oberglatt in the canton of Zurich and in Munich .

Services

Silvio Blatter, who mainly writes prose , describes in detail the monotonous everyday life of industrial workers in his early works. He became known through the Freiamt trilogy , consisting of the novels Increasing Homesickness , No Beautiful Land and The Gentle Law , which paint a broad picture of Blatter's home region, the Aargauer Freiamt , and its residents. In the 1990s, Blatter's literary activity took a back seat, as he devoted himself mainly to painting for almost ten years. Writing and painting have been equally important to him since 2000.

Silvio Blatter is a member of the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center , of which he was Chairman from 1984 to 1986.

Awards and honors

  • 1972 Award of the City of Zurich
  • 1974 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
  • 1978 Award of the City of Zurich
  • 1979 Prize of the New Literary Society

Works

Books

Original editions:

  • Fires come unexpectedly . Rainbow, Zurich 1968
  • An apartment on the ground floor . Sauerländer, Aarau 1970
  • Switching error . Stories. Flamberg, Zurich 1972
  • Mary Long . Novel. Flamberg, Zurich 1973
  • Only the king has a beard . Narrative. Swiss advertising agency for the book, Zurich 1973
  • Escape and death of Daniel Zoff. Preliminary record of a rural day . Sauerländer, Aarau 1974
  • Standardized days, wasted time . A story. Suhrkamp ( es 858), Frankfurt am Main 1976
  • Increasing homesickness . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • Love me tender . Narrative. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • The snow trap . Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1981
  • Not a beautiful country . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • The quiet waves. The Book of the Lake . Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1985 (text on photos by Ulrich Anderegg)
  • Aquarius . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • The gentle law . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988
  • The blue house . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • Avenue America . Novel. Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1992
  • The lucky number . Novella. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt (FVA), Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-627-00082-X
  • Twelve seconds of silence . Novel. FVA, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-627-00114-1
  • An unfinished business . FVA, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-627-00131-1
  • Two monkeys . Novel. Dumont, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-8050-8
  • Four days in August . Novel. Langen-Müller, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7844-3316-5
  • We don't count our days . Novel. Piper, Munich, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05645-8
  • The incorrigible . Novel. Piper, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-05814-8

Pictures by Silvio Blatter are published in:

  • The blind spot . Marie-Louise Wirth Gallery, Schöftland 1992
  • Jürg Amann : Star drift. An American diary . Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-87365-331-1

Radio plays / radio broadcasts

  • All questions of this world , DRS 1975
  • Christmas dreams , DRS 1975
  • Letschti Liebi (dialect version of the radio play by Urs Ledergerber ), DRS 1976
  • What can din dad do? (Dialect version of The Profession of the Father by Michael Scharang ), DRS 1976
  • Bologna can wait , DRS 1981

literature

  • Benita Cantieni : Swiss writer personally. Huber, Frauenfeld 1983, ISBN 3-7193-0883-9 , pp. 111-125.
  • Christoph Bauer: small and mean study of the increasing civil servant status in recent German-Swiss literature. In: Nicolai Riedel, Stefan Rammer u. a. (Ed.): Literature from Switzerland. Special issue from Passauer Pegasus. Journal of Literature. Issue 21-22, 11th year, Karl Krieg, Passau 1993 ISSN  0724-0708

notes

  1. ↑ http://www.kirche-im-wdr.de/startseite/makePdf/programm/wir-zaehlen-unsere-tage-nicht/
  2. ↑ a very clear criticism of Blatter's work

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personal data
SURNAME Blatter, Silvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremgarten AG