Walther Kauer

Walther Kauer (born September 4, 1935 in Bern , † April 27, 1987 in Murten , Canton of Friborg ) was a Swiss writer.

Life

Walther Kauer attended the École des Arts et Métiers in Neuchâtel , completed training as a curative teacher in Aberdeen , followed by a few semesters of study at the Free University of Berlin . He worked temporarily as a journalist and after his return to Switzerland lived first in Castasegna , then in Murten. There he was killed in a motorcycle accident.

He made a name for himself above all with his idiosyncratic novels; one of them, Spätholz , was made into a film in 1983. He also wrote plays, film scripts and radio plays. His estate is in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern .

Kauer was a member of the SSV , the Society of Swiss Dramatists and the Swiss Union of Journalists . He received several awards for his highly socially critical work.

Awards

• 1972 Prize of the Society of Swiss Dramatists
• 1973 Prize of the Canton of Aargau
• 1975 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 1976 City of Zurich Prize
• 1976 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
• 1977 Prize of the Canton of Bern
• 1980 Book Prize of the City of Bern

Works

Original editions

• Green electricity and black earth . Cooperative publishing house, Zurich 1968
• You shouldn't ... Short story . Around the corner, Zurich 1969
• The hero. Short story . Around the corner, Zurich 1969
• Box dream . Volk und Welt publishing house , Berlin (East) 1974
• Latewood . Benziger , Zurich 1976
• Offside trap . Benziger, Zurich 1977
• Leghold traps . Benziger, Zurich 1979
• Alarm clock rattle. Ten fun stories . Benziger, Zurich 1981
• Smoldering fires . Benziger, Zurich 1983
• Epsom salt . Benziger, Zurich 1984
• Hospitable . Fischer, Münsingen 1986

New editions

• Latewood. Novel from Ticino . Lenos Verlag (pocket 69), Basel 2002, ISBN 3-85787-669-7 and (pocket 172), Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-85787-772-8 (2nd complete edition)
• Leghold traps. Novel from Bergell . Lenos (pocket 72), Basel 2002, ISBN 3-85787-672-7
• Smoldering fires. Novel from the Zealand . Lenos (pocket 85), Basel 2004, ISBN 3-85787-685-9
• Hospitable. Novel about Vreneli from em Guggisberg . Lenos (pocket 92), Basel 2005, ISBN 3-85787-692-1
• Offside trap. A football novel . Lenos (pocket 99), Basel 2006, ISBN 3-85787-699-9
• Box dream. Novel . Lenos (pocket 112), Basel 2008, ISBN 3-85787-712-X
• Epsom salt. Novel . Lenos (pocket 171), Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-85787-771-1

Theatrical performances

• Senior dreams , Zurich 1976
• Experiment No. 27 , Bern 1983
• Yischblueme , Bern 1984

Radio plays / radio broadcasts

• Ds Schparheft , directed by Walter Baumgarter , 1976
• Cagnosciat tu , directed by Walter Baumgarter, 1979
• Anna Göldi - En Staat suecht en Mörder , directed by Walter Baumgarter, 1980
• Es Muttfüürli , 1983

Translations

• Gion Deplazes : Bitter Lips . From the Surselvian by Gion Deplazes and Walther Kauer. Benziger / Ex Libris, Zurich 1976

literature

• Benita Cantieni : Walther Kauer . In: Swiss writers personally . Huber, Frauenfeld 1983, pp. 60-75
• Christoph Bircher: The narrator Walther Kauer. A tightrope walk in a hospitable world . Dissertation student printing company, Zurich 1989
• Elio Pellin: "With a steaming body". Sporty bodies with Ludwig Hohl , Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Walther Kauer and Lorenz Lotmar . Chronos, Zurich 2008, ISBN 3-0340-0880-5

Web links

• Walther Kauer's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Works by and about Walther Kauer in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Walther Kauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article in the Lexicon of Swiss Authors of the Bibliomedia Foundation
• Untouchable About the author and the new edition of his works, by Bettina Spoerri in WOZ from January 6, 2005