Jonas Lüscher Explained

Jonas Lüscher (born 22 October 1976 in Schlieren, Switzerland^[1]) is a Swiss-German writer and essayist.^[2]

Early life

Lüscher grew up in Bern where he later trained between 1994 and 1998 at the Muristalden Evangelical Teacher Training School (Evangelisches Lehrerseminar Muristalden) to qualify as a primary school teacher.^[3]

Career

He spent a few years as a script editor and screenwriter for the Munich film industry. He then undertook studies at the Munich School of Philosophy from 2005 to 2009, earning a master's degree in 2009. At the same time he was working as a freelance editor.

From 2009 to 2001 Lüscher researched ethics in science at the TTN Institute (Institut Technik-Theologie-Naturwissenschaften) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

In 2011 Lüscher moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich or ETH). There he embarked on a dissertation under the supervision of philosopher Michael Hampe on the work of Richard Rorty. In 2012–13 Lüscher was awarded a grant by the Swiss Government enabling him to spend nine months as Visiting Researcher in the Comparative Literature Department at Stanford University. At the end of 2014 Lüscher left ETH without completing his dissertation.

Lüscher is a member of the PEN Centre Germany and began living in Munich in 2001.

His first novel, Frühling der Barbaren^[4] (Barbarian Spring, translated by Peter Lewis) was nominated in 2013 for both the Swiss Book Prize and the German Book Prize.

Selected works

Jetzt. Libretto for the Opera by Mathis Nitschke, original production at the Opéra National de Montpellier, 30 November 2012.^[5]
Frühling der Barbaren. Novella. C.H. Beck, München 2013. translated by Peter Lewis as Barbarian Spring, Haus Publishing, London 2014.
Kraft. Novel. C.H. Beck, München 2017., longlisted for the 2017 German Book Prize.^[6] Translated by Tess Lewis as Kraft, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2020. ^[7]

Awards

2013: Franz-Hessel-Preis for Frühling der Barbaren^[8]
2013: Literary Award of Kanton Bern^[9]
2013: Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis^[10]
2016: Hans Fallada Prize for Frühling der Barbaren^[11]
2017: Schweizer Buchpreis (Swiss Book Award) for Kraft^[12]
2022: Max Frisch Prize^[13]

Literature

Stefan Hofer-Krucker Valderrama: Die perpetuierte Katastrophe. Globalisierung und ihre Schattenseiten in Jonas Lüschers "Frühling der Barbaren". Mit einigen literaturdidaktischen Anmerkungen. In: Almut Hille, Sabine Jambon, Marita Meyer (Eds.): Globalisierung – Natur – Zukunft erzählen. Aktuelle deutschsprachige Literatur für die Internationale Germanistik und das Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache., München 2015, pp. 39–57.
Book: Lüscher, Jonas. [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=oVcrDwAAQBAJ}} Barbarian Spring]. 15 March 2015. Haus Publishing. 978-1-908323-84-2.
Yvonne Hütter: Ethics and Aesthetics in Jonas Lüscher’s "Barbarian Spring". In: Primerjalna književnost, No. 40.2, 2017, pp. 149–163. https://www.academia.edu/33668702/Ethics_and_Aesthetics_in_Jonas_L%C3%BCscher_s_Barbarian_Spring_In_Primerjalna_knji%C5%BEevnost_No_40_2_2017_149_163

External links

Notes and References

https://www.republik.ch/2019/01/21/traeumen-sie Republik.ch
Web site: Jonas Lüscher Literaturhaus. www.literaturhaus-basel.ch. 27 February 2017. 27 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170227232303/https://www.literaturhaus-basel.ch/person/100. live.
Web site: Autor "Jonas Lüscher" bei Verlag C.H.BECK Literatur – Sachbuch – Wissenschaft. www.chbeck.de. de. 27 February 2017. 15 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170715075141/http://www.chbeck.de/trefferliste.aspx?action=author&author=140723067. dead.
Web site: Interview und Buchkritik: Jonas Lüscher – "Frühling der Barbaren" – literaturcafe.de. Tischer. Wolfgang. www.literaturcafe.de. 22 May 2013. de-DE. 27 February 2017. 27 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170227232000/http://www.literaturcafe.de/interview-und-buchkritk-jonas-luescher-fruehling-der-barbaren/. live.
News: JETZT – Mathis Nitschke. 30 November 2012. Mathis Nitschke. 17 November 2017. en-US. 6 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170706205728/https://mathis-nitschke.com/wp/en/jetzt-en/. live.
Web site: Archiv. 18 November 2020. www.deutscher-buchpreis.de. de. 8 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220708042247/https://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/. live.
Web site: Kraft Jonas Lüscher Macmillan. 18 November 2020. US Macmillan. en-US.
Web site: Bundesregierung Artikel Deutsch-französischer Literaturpreis verliehen. www.bundesregierung.de. 18 February 2014. de. 27 February 2017. 12 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170312204827/https://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Artikel/2014/02/2014-02-18-franz-hessel-preis.html. live.
Web site: Die literarischen Auszeichnungen des Kantons Bern . biblioBE.ch . de . 30 November 2024 . 7 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230607153441/https://www.bibliobe.ch/de/News/Informationen-2017-3/Die-literarischen-Auszeichnungen-des-Kantons-Bern.aspx . live .
Web site: Bayerische Kunstförderpreise 2013 . Literaturportal Bayern . de . 30 November 2024 . 24 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221124165204/https://www.literaturportal-bayern.de/journal?task=lpbblog.default&id=384 . live .
News: Schweizer Autor in Deutschland ausgezeichnet. Luzerner Zeitung . 27 February 2017. de. 7 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171107111906/http://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/nachrichten/kultur/Schweizer-Autor-in-Deutschland-ausgezeichnet;art46444,615958. dead.
Web site: 2017 winner . German . Schweizer Buchpreis . 12 July 2017 . 14 November 2017 . 2 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171202223055/http://schweizerbuchpreis.ch/jonas-luescher/ . live .
Web site: Der Max Frisch-Preis 2022 geht an Jonas Lüscher . BuchMarkt . 19 January 2022 . de . 10 June 2022 . 20 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220120054420/https://buchmarkt.de/meldungen/der-max-frisch-preis-2022-geht-an-jonas-luescher/ . live .