Urs Mannhart

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Urs Mannhart (born August 19, 1975 in Rohrbach ) is a Swiss writer .

Live and act

Urs Mannhart studied German , English and philosophy for a few semesters ; he earns his living partly as a bicycle courier . In Der Kleine Bund , the weekend supplement of the daily newspaper Der Bund , Mannhart has sporadically published longer reports since 2004. Together with Christoph Simon and Lorenz Langenegger , he forms the group of authors, Die Autören .

As a writer, he caused a sensation with his 2004 debut novel «luchs»; the book became a bestseller and is now in its fourth edition. The subject of his first novel arose from his community service in the Swiss lynx resettlement project KORA . In his “environmental thriller”, Mannhart describes the guerrilla war between “narrow-minded” mountain farmers and “scientifically based” large-scale predator biologists in a lynx resettlement project in the Bernese Oberland , supplemented and interwoven with descriptions of the landscape and factual reports.

Man hard in 2006 by the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) with a stay fellowship excellent, also of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia was promoted.

In 2006 Mannhart's second novel was published, The Anomaly of the Geomagnetic Field southeast of Domodossola , for which he was awarded the 2007 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern .

In November 2007, together with the author Verena Stefan, he was the first to receive the “Continue writing” contribution for literature , newly created by the City of Bern , which is intended to enable authors to work on a literary work for a longer period of time. The prize, each worth CHF 25,000, was presented at the beginning of 2008.

In August 2008, Antonia Settembrini's Kuriernovelle or The Secretly Still To Be Bringing Bunch of Keys appeared ; a novella in which the adventurous first shift of a bicycle courier is described. This text is part of the Velokurierbuch , which was published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Velokurier Bern Cooperative.

In spring 2014 his novel Bergsteiger im Flachland was published . Mannhart was accused of having used several reports by Thomas Brunnsteiner for his book , which were published between 2000 and 2006 in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , among others , and in 2007 in the volume Bis ins Eismeer . Mannhart admitted that he used and quoted reports without properly naming the source. Brunnsteiner sued Mannhart and in September 2014 obtained a provisional ban on the sale of the book. After a settlement before the commercial court in Zurich on July 22, 2015, the accusation against Mannhart turned out to be unfounded. Brunnsteiner had to withdraw his lawsuit and pay the publisher 20,000 Swiss francs in damages. In 2016 Mannhart was awarded a Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize . In 2017 he was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition .

Urs Mannhart and the satirist Matthias Kunz wrote the play “Ds chlinere Übel - Es Dorf creates a sire future” together in 2016. The world premiere of the play took place in October 2016 in Langenthal.

Urs Mannhart currently lives and works on an organic farm in Iffwil .

Works

Novels and other prose

  • Lynx . Bilger, Zurich 2004 (3rd edition 2005), ISBN 3-908010-70-5 .
  • The geomagnetic field anomaly southeast of Domodossola . Bilger, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-908010-82-9 .
  • Courier novella or Antonia Settembrini's key ring that still needs to be delivered secretly . In: Velokurierbuch. Eigenart, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-909990-21-4 .
  • Mountaineering in the lowlands. Secession, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-905951-32-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bergroman ohne Mief Article by Veronika Rall in WOZ from October 28, 2004
  2. ↑ Authors and translators in the house 2006. Residence scholars of the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB)
  3. ^ Office for Culture / German-Language Literature Commission of the Canton of Bern: Literary Awards. Media release of May 18, 2007
  4. ↑ a b Roman Bucheli: Urs Mannhart's novel “Bergsteiger im Flachland”. In the wrong life. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from June 17, 2014
  5. ^ Roman Bucheli: Allegations against Urs Mannhart's novel. Piracy as a service of love. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from August 2, 2014
  6. ↑ [1]
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  8. ↑ orf.at - authors of the Bachmann Prize 2017 presented . Article dated May 24, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mannhart, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss prose writer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohrbach