Lukas Bärfuss

Swiss writer and playwright
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Lukas Bärfuss
Bärfuss in 2014
Bärfuss in 2014
Born (1971-12-30) 30 December 1971 (age 52)
Thun, Switzerland
OccupationPlaywright, novelist
LanguageGerman
NationalitySwiss
Website
www.lukasbaerfuss.ch

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] 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 and the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 2016.

In 2019, he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize for his dramas, novels and essays.[5][4][6] The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung praised his work, among other things, as being permeated by "a high degree of stylistic certainty and formal richness of variation"[7] that explores "always anew and differently fundamental existential situations of modern life." The prize was awarded in Darmstadt on November 2, 2019.[8] The Georg Büchner Prize is regarded as the most prestigious prize in German literature. Bärfuss was the fourth Swiss to win the Prize and the first Swiss winner in 25 years, the last Swiss winner being Adolf Muschg in 1994.[9]

Memberships

Bärfuss has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since early summer 2015.[2][10]

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)[11]
  • 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: Wallstein Verlag. 2008. ISBN 978-3-8353-0271-6.
    • Hundert Tage. Munich: btb Verlag. 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 Michael Günzburger. Zürich: Edition Patrick Frey. 2018. ISBN 978-3-906803-59-3.{{cite book}}: 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.
  • Vaters Kiste. Eine Geschichte über das Erben. Hamburg: Rowohlt. 2022. ISBN 978-3-498-00341-8.
  • Die Krume Brot. Hamburg: Rowohlt. 2023. ISBN 978-3-498-00320-3.

References

  1. ^ "Bärfuss, Lukas". Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften (in German). 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Lukas Bärfuss". Deutsches Theater Berlin (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Lukas Bärfuss". internationales literaturfestival berlin (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  4. ^ a b Geisel, Sieglinde (25 October 2019). "Büchner-Preisträger Lukas Bärfuss – Poesie und Engagement". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Georg-Büchner-Preis 2019 geht an Lukas Bärfuss | DW | 2 November 2019". DW.COM (in German). Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  6. ^ Reichel, Peter (12 November 2019). "Lukas Bärfuss: Wie der Autor die Bundesrepublik diffamiert". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung - Akademie - Presse - Lukas Bärfuss erhält den Georg-Büchner-Preis 2019". www.deutscheakademie.de. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung - Aktivitäten - Veranstaltungen - Verleihung der Akademie-Preise". www.deutscheakademie.de. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  9. ^ Radisch, Iris (10 July 2019). "Traurig über seine eigenen Einsichten". Die Zeit (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  10. ^ "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Mitglieder". Akademie (in German). Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  11. ^ Boehm, Philip (2010). "Lukas Bärfuss,The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents". Translation Review. 79 (1). Informa UK Limited: 73–76. doi:10.1080/07374836.2010.10524146. ISSN 0737-4836. S2CID 169484212.

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