Wolfgang Bortlik

Wolfgang Bortlik (born June 8, 1952 in Munich ) is a German writer and musician who lives and works in Switzerland .

Wolfgang Bortlik, Paranoia City bookstore, Zurich 2019.

Life

Wolfgang Bortlik was born in Munich, and the family moved to Switzerland in 1965. From 1972 to 1980 he studied history, sociology and journalism at the universities of Munich and Zurich. In the 1980s, Bortlik was one of the characters in the Aargau underground scene: from 1980 to 1990 he sang and drummed in the punk-ska band Bermuda Idiots , ran the bookshop / gallery “zum Goldenen Kalb” in Aarau and was one of the heads of the Aargauer Untergrundblatt Alpenzeiger (1975–1995). Bortlik co-founded Edition Moderne in 1981 , where he was in charge of the literary program until 1989. He also works as an editor and translator for the novels by Stewart Home . In 1993 Bortlik moved to Basel, today he lives in Riehen.

Literary career

In 1998 Bortlik's first novel Wurst & Spiele was published , which is full of allusions to popular culture and music, which is why the news magazine Facts called it the Swiss Hornby . The novel revolves around the rebellious youth of the 1980s, whose lives Bortlik sums up as follows: "Good concerts, wild art, strange films, sitting around together without being forced to consume."

In 2000 Halbe Hosen was published , a satire with the staff who will populate most of Bortlik's novels. Political and cultural rebels of yesterday, settling in on their failure. Hectic Heroes from 2002 confronts one of Bortlik's anti-heroes with the reactionary and extreme right of Switzerland, about which Bortlik has researched a lot. The center of this patriotic pandemonium is an old man named Hallauer, who publishes a magazine for occidental values ​​called "Occident" [...]. Of course, all of the characters in the novel are rather fictional, but all of the content, quotes and ideologies are authentic.

Beginning in 2009 with Fischer hat Durst Bortlik's crime series with amateur detective Melchior Fischer, who ten years later has to solve his fourth case in bank snow . Whereby Fischer could be Bortlik's alter ego. With punk and rock'n 'roll quotes, Bortlik locates the spirit of his investigators in the wild 70s, peppered with criticism of the cultural business. Sun revolves late effects , the second case of Melchior Fischer to the 1970s and focuses on the anti-nuclear movement and its consequences.

Armen Ritter von 2014 takes place in parts of the 1970s, which shaped Wolfgang Bortlik politically and begins with a politically motivated bank robbery. Bortlik says: I even toyed with the idea of ​​robbing a bank myself. It was very easy in the 1970s; I had acquaintances who did that.

In addition to his novels, Bortlik writes about his passion for football and has recorded several audio books on the subject with the dialect poet Pedro Lenz . As a columnist for the NZZ am Sonntag he writes a weekly sports poems, he reviews regularly for 20minutes and for the comic - magazine Strapazin .

Wolfgang Bortlik was funded by the Basel Literature Credit in 2000, 2002, 2009 and 2013.

Works

• Sausage & Games. Novel. Nautilus, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-89401-293-5 .
• Half pants. Novel. Nautilus, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-89401-355-9 .
• Hectic heroes. Novel. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85791-409-2 .
• Always the first on the ball: poems from football and such. Poems. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-85791-498-X .
• A hard day's night: Christmas in the 60s. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-45129731-1 .
• Hopp Schwiiz !: Football in Switzerland or the art of honorable defeat. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 3-462-03995-4
• Fischer is thirsty. Thriller. Salis, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-905801-28-6 .
• The ball has risen: poems and texts from football. Knapp, Olten 2014, ISBN 978-3-905848-91-5 .
• Poor knight. Novel. Nautilus, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89401-789-7 .
• Long-term consequences. Thriller. Gmeiner Verlag, Messkirch 2015, ISBN 978-3-8392-4605-4 .
• Blood Rhine. Thriller. Gmeiner Verlag, Messkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-8392-2021-4 .
• Bank snow. Thriller. Gmeiner Verlag, Messkirch 2019, ISBN 978-3839223659 .
• All too human. Friedrich Nietzsche determined , Gmeiner Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8392-2551-6 .

Anthologies; Cooperation

• Wireless imagination. Calls and exclamations of futurism. Editor with Hanna Mittelstädt and Lutz Schulenburg . Nautilus, Hamburg and Edition Moderne, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-89401-121-1 .
• Dinner for One in Swiss German. Translated into Bern German by Pedro Lenz with a framework story by Wolfgang Bortlik. Nautilus, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-89401465-0 .
• All Souls' Waltz: new dances of death. Poems. Edited by Margrit Manz. Waldgut Verlag, Frauenfeld 2007, ISBN 978-303740382-2 .
• Fried Eggs: Memo and Egg Crime. Thriller. With Martin Walker . Walkwerk, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-90586308-6 .
• The increase in opportunities was balanced: row of pearls. Editor. Knapp Verlag, Olten 2012, ISBN 978-3-8392-4605-4 .
• Four crazy football stories. Anthology. kwasi Verlag, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-906183-13-8 .
• The train is full. Switzerland in the density stress. Edited by Thomas Haemmerli . Kein & Aber, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03695696-1 .

Translations

• Stewart Home: Trench Warfare. Novel. Nautilus, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-89401248-9 .
• Stewart Home: Pure madness. Novel. Nautilus, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-89401343-1 .
• Stewart Home: Blow Job. Novel. Nautilus, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-89401365-3 .

Audio books and CDs

• Hit recordings 1980–1990. Bermuda Idiots, A Gogo Dust Track Production, 199z
• Wash up. Spoken Word CD, MusicMail, Kölliken 1999.
• Chez Heico. Spoken Word CD. MusicMail, Kölliken 2001.
• Blood rattle. Spoken Word CD with Pedro Lenz , MusicMail, Kölliken 2004.
• Blind & blue. Songs and poems. CD, MusicMail, Kölliken 2004.
• The Swallow Kings. Spoken Word CD with Pedro Lenz. MusicMail, Kölliken 2006
• Home advantage. Spoken Word CD together with Pedro Lenz and Tim & Struppi. MusicMail, Kölliken 2008.
• Kick off. Spoken Word CD together with Pedro Lenz and Tim & Struppi. MusicMail, Kölliken 2010.
• The Swallow Kings. Substitute bench. Spoken Word CD together with Pedro Lenz and Tim & Struppi. Publishing house of the healthy people dispatch, Lucerne 2014, ISBN 978-3-905825-79-4 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Wolfgang Bortlik in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Wolfgang Bortlik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence of Wolfgang Bortlik
• Comic magazine Strapazin
• Wolfgang Bortlik interviewed by Thomas Haemmerli I: About the Vita, video from March 4, 2015 on YouTube
• Wolfgang Bortlik interviewed by Thomas Haemmerli II: About the novels, video from March 4, 2015 on YouTube
• Video of a reading in Zurich on March 20, 2014 at which Wolfgang Bortlik is supported by the musician Gogo Frei. on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Haemmerli: Ruth Metzlers missed youth. in the SonntagsZeitung on March 28, 1999, quoted from www.haem.ch, accessed on February 15, 2015.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Bortlik interviewed by Thomas Haemmerli 1: About his Vita, Politics, Aarau, the Alpenzeiger & the Bermuda Iditots Video on youtube from March 4, 2015, accessed on August 20, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} A pandemonium of patriotic poltergeists. Wolfgang Bortlik. Thomas Haemmerli (Ed.): The train is full. Switzerland in the density stress. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2014, p. 65 f.
4. ↑ Martin Zingg: Half pants, old dreams. Wolfgang Bortlik's time and local satire. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 6, 2001, accessed on February 15, 2015.
5. ↑ Coke from the IKEA bag. in: Alexandra Riffel, Badische Zeitung from March 1, 2019, quoted from www.wolfgangbortlik.ch, accessed August 20, 2019.
6. ↑ I toyed with the idea of ​​robbing a bank. in: Baselandschaftliche Zeitung of March 14, 2014, accessed February 8, 2015.
7. ↑ Gisela Feuz: Beer, Bratwurst and Tigerbalsam. Review, in Der Bund of July 3, 2014, accessed February 8, 2015.