Lukas Bärfuss
{{Short description|Swiss writer and playwright}}
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| birth_place = Thun, Switzerland
| 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.{{Cite web |date=29 October 2020 |title=Bärfuss, Lukas |url=https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/gastprof/mueller/baerfuss/index.html |access-date=29 October 2020 |website=Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften |language=de}} In 1998, he co-founded the independent theater group 400asa.{{Cite web |title=Lukas Bärfuss |url=https://www.deutschestheater.de/ensemble/lukas_baerfuss/ |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=Deutsches Theater Berlin |language=de}}
Awards
Bärfuss has won the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2005 for the play Der Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen), the Anna Seghers-Preis in 2008,{{Cite web |title=Lukas Bärfuss |url=https://www.literaturfestival.com/autoren/autoren-2014/lukas-baerfuss |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=internationales literaturfestival berlin |language=de}} the Hans Fallada Prize in 2010, the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2014, the Swiss Book Prize ({{langx|de|link=no|Schweizer Buchpreis}}) in 2014 for Koala, 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.{{Cite web |title=Georg-Büchner-Preis 2019 geht an Lukas Bärfuss {{!}} DW {{!}} 2 November 2019 |url=https://www.dw.com/de/georg-b%C3%BCchner-preis-2019-geht-an-lukas-b%C3%A4rfuss/a-49519465 |access-date=3 November 2019 |website=DW.COM |language=de-DE}}{{Cite web |last=Geisel |first=Sieglinde |date=25 October 2019 |title=Büchner-Preisträger Lukas Bärfuss – Poesie und Engagement |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/buechner-preistraeger-lukas-baerfuss-poesie-und-engagement.976.de.html?dram:article_id=461867 |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}}{{Cite news |last=Reichel |first=Peter |date=12 November 2019 |title=Lukas Bärfuss: Wie der Autor die Bundesrepublik diffamiert |url=https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/lukas-baerfuss-wie-der-buechner-preistraeger-die-bundesrepublik-diffamiert-ld.1521116 |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |language=de}} 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"{{Cite web |title=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung - Akademie - Presse - Lukas Bärfuss erhält den Georg-Büchner-Preis 2019 |url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/de/akademie/presse/2019-07-09/lukas-baerfuss-erhaelt-den-georg-buechner-preis-2019 |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=www.deutscheakademie.de}} that explores "always anew and differently fundamental existential situations of modern life." The prize was awarded in Darmstadt on November 2, 2019.{{Cite web |title=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung - Aktivitäten - Veranstaltungen - Verleihung der Akademie-Preise |url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/de/aktivitaeten/veranstaltungen/2019-11-02/verleihung-der-akademie-preise |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=www.deutscheakademie.de}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Radisch |first=Iris |date=10 July 2019 |title=Traurig über seine eigenen Einsichten |language=de |work=Die Zeit |location=Hamburg |url=https://www.zeit.de/2019/29/georg-buechner-preis-lukas-baerfuss-literaturpreis |access-date=29 October 2020}}
=Memberships=
Bärfuss has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since early summer 2015.{{Cite web |title=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Mitglieder |url=https://www.deutscheakademie.de/de/akademie/mitglieder |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=Akademie |language=de}}
Works
=Plays=
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- 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){{Cite journal |last=Boehm |first=Philip |year=2010 |title=Lukas Bärfuss,The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents |journal=Translation Review |publisher=Informa UK Limited |volume=79 |issue=1 |pages=73–76 |doi=10.1080/07374836.2010.10524146 |s2cid=169484212 |issn=0737-4836}}
- 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)
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=Books=
- {{Cite book |title=Die toten Männer |publisher=Suhrkamp Verlag |year=2002 |isbn=3-518-12306-8 |location=Frankfurt am Main}}
- {{Cite book |title=Hundert Tage |publisher=Wallstein Verlag |year=2008 |isbn=978-3-8353-0271-6 |location=Göttingen}}
- {{Cite book |title=Hundert Tage |publisher=btb Verlag |year=2010 |isbn=978-3-442-73903-5 |location=Munich}}
- {{Cite book |title=Koala |publisher=Wallstein |year=2014 |isbn=978-3-8353-0653-0 |location=Göttingen}}
- {{Cite book |title=Stil und Moral |publisher=Wallstein |year=2015 |isbn=978-3-8353-1679-9 |location=Göttingen}}
- {{Cite book |title=Hagard |publisher=Wallstein |year=2017 |isbn=978-3-8353-1840-3 |location=Göttingen}}
- {{Cite book |title=Krieg und Liebe |publisher=Wallstein |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-8353-3241-6 |location=Göttingen}}
- {{Cite book |title=Contact |publisher=Edition Patrick Frey |others=with Michael Günzburger |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-906803-59-3 |location=Zürich}}
- {{Cite book |title=Malinois |publisher=Wallstein |year=2019 |isbn=978-3-8353-3600-1 |location=Göttingen}}
- {{Cite book |title=Die Krone der Schöpfung. Essays. |publisher=Wallstein |year=2020 |isbn=978-3-8353-3831-9 |location=Göttingen}}
- {{Cite book |title=Vaters Kiste. Eine Geschichte über das Erben |publisher=Rowohlt |year=2022 |isbn=978-3-498-00341-8 |location=Hamburg}}
- {{Cite book |title=Die Krume Brot|publisher=Rowohlt |year=2023 |isbn=978-3-498-00320-3 |location=Hamburg}}
References
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External links
- {{official|https://www.lukasbaerfuss.ch/}}
{{Georg Büchner Prize}}
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Category:Georg Büchner Prize winners
Category:21st-century Swiss novelists
Category:Swiss dramatists and playwrights
Category:Swiss Book Prize winners
Category:Members of the German Academy for Language and Literature
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