Valentin Herzog

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Valentin Herzog (born September 6, 1941 in Erfurt ) is a German-Swiss writer and critic as well as a former teacher in Riehen near Basel.

Life

Valentin Herzog grew up in Berlin and Munich, studied German language and literature , film and theater studies, history and Italian philology there as well as in Hamburg and Basel , and received his doctorate in 1969 with his dissertation “Ironic narrative forms in CF Meyer” (about Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ) in Basel. From 1970 to 2000 he worked as a teacher at the Bäumlihof grammar school in Basel.

In 1979 he founded the literature initiative Arena in Riehen, which he has been leading ever since. In addition to his teaching activities and his work as a literary critic (Basler National-Zeitung, Basler Zeitung , Die Weltwoche , Radio DRS, etc.), he also worked as a travel journalist. Long stays abroad as well as the growing interest in the world of antiquity, especially the Etruscans , were reflected in his first book publications and also shaped his more recent literary work.

He is a member of the AdS association (authors in Switzerland).

Works

  • Ironic narrative forms in CF Meyer (dissertation), Bern 1970
  • On the way to the Etruscans. An individual travel companion. Basel 1986
  • Bastards of the she-wolf. Sign of life from Rome. Basel 1992
  • with Sylvia Herzog: We have never seen anything that we encounter. Diaries from Morocco , Basel 1997
  • Karim's cafe. Stories from Morocco . Riehen / Basel 2006
  • Alifa's sign. Stories from Morocco. Mainz 2008
  • Pass jumps. The Red. Two stories. Riehen / Basel 2009
  • The stolen face. Riehen / Basel 2011
  • with Katja Fusek : Mare blu. A love story with Homer Riehen / Basel 2011
  • The house in Maremma . Novel. IL-Verlag, Basel, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see entry about Valentin Herzog in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss teacher, writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt