Lukas Bärfuss
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Born | Thun, Switzerland | 30 December 1971
Occupation | Playwright, novelist |
Language | German |
Nationality | Swiss |
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Lukas Bärfuss (born 30 December 1971) is a Swiss writer and playwright who writes in German. He won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019.
Biography[]
Born in Thun, Switzerland in 1971, Lukas Bärfuss began training as a bookseller after graduating from high school.[1] Since 1977 he has lived and worked as a freelance writer in Zurich.[1] In 1998 he co-founded the independent theater group 400asa.[2]
Awards[]
Bärfuss has won the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2005 for the play Der Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen), the Anna Seghers-Preis in 2008,[3] the Hans Fallada Prize in 2010,[3] the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2014,[3] the Swiss Book Prize (German: Schweizer Buchpreis) in 2014 for Koala,[4] the Nicolas Born Prize in 2015, the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 2016, and the most prestigious German literature prize[5] the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019.[6][4][7] He was the first Swiss to win the Georg Büchner Prize in 25 years, the last Swiss winner being Adolf Muschg in 1994.
Memberships[]
Bärfuss has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since early summer 2015.[2][8]
Works[]
Plays[]
- Sophokles' Ödipus (1998)
- Siebzehn Uhr Siebzehn (2000)
- 74 Sekunden (2000)
- Vier Frauen (2000)
- Die Reise von Klaus und Edith durch den Schacht zum Mittelpunkt der Erde (2001)
- Meienbergs Tod (2001)
- Vier Bilder der Liebe (2002)
- Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (2003)
- Der Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen) (2005)
- Alices Reise in die Schweiz (2005)
- Die Probe (Der brave Simon Korach) (2007)
- Amygdala (2009)
- Öl (2009)
- Malaga (2010)
- Zwanzigtausend Seiten (2012)
- Die schwarze Halle (2013)
- Frau Schmitz (2016)
- Der Elefantengeist (2018)
- Julien – Rot und Schwarz (2020)
Books[]
- Die toten Männer. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. 2002. ISBN 3-518-12306-8.
- Hundert Tage. Göttingen: . 2008. ISBN 978-3-8353-0271-6.
- Hundert Tage. Munich: . 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-73903-5.
- Koala. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2014. ISBN 978-3-8353-0653-0.
- Stil und Moral. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2015. ISBN 978-3-8353-1679-9.
- Hagard. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2017. ISBN 978-3-8353-1840-3.
- Krieg und Liebe. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2018. ISBN 978-3-8353-3241-6.
- Contact. with . Zürich: Edition Patrick Frey. 2018. ISBN 978-3-906803-59-3.CS1 maint: others (link)
- Malinois. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2019. ISBN 978-3-8353-3600-1.
- Die Krone der Schöpfung. Essays. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2020. ISBN 978-3-8353-3831-9.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Bärfuss, Lukas". Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften (in German). 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Lukas Bärfuss". Deutsches Theater Berlin (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Lukas Bärfuss". internationales literaturfestival berlin (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Geisel, Sieglinde (25 October 2019). "Büchner-Preisträger Lukas Bärfuss – Poesie und Engagement". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Radisch, Iris (10 July 2019). "Traurig über seine eigenen Einsichten". Die Zeit (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Georg-Büchner-Preis 2019 geht an Lukas Bärfuss | DW | 2 November 2019". DW.COM (in German). Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ Reichel, Peter (12 November 2019). "Lukas Bärfuss: Wie der Autor die Bundesrepublik diffamiert". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Mitglieder". Akademie (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
External links[]
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Swiss writers
- Canton of Bern
- People from Thun
- Georg Büchner Prize winners
- Swiss male novelists
- 21st-century Swiss novelists
- Swiss dramatists and playwrights
- Swiss Book Prize winners
- Swiss writer stubs