Lukas Bärfuss Explained

Lukas Bärfuss
Birth Date:30 December 1971
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.[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, the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2014, the Swiss Book Prize (German: 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.[4] [5] [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.[10]

Works

Plays

Books

Notes and References

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

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