Klaus Merz

Klaus Merz

Klaus Merz (born 3 October 1945 in Aarau, canton Aargau) is a Swiss writer, who writes in German.

Life

As a teacher (secondary school), Merz has worked in adult education. He has won several prices, e.g. the famous Hermann Hesse Prize for Literature in 1997, the Gottfried-Keller-Preis in 2004 and the Werkpreis der schweizerischen Schillerstiftung in 2005.

He wrote a lot of narrations and stories, e.g. Adams Kostüm or the short novel Jakob schläft. Merz has also made poems (Kurze Durchsage) – his works are rather short. But the titles already show Merz's special ability: He manages it, to place two or three banal words, one next to the other, and it starts "buzzing" amongst them.

Today, Merz lives in Unterkulm as a narrator and lyric poet.

Selected bibliography

Complete edition

  • Band 1: Die Lamellen stehen offen. Frühe Lyrik 1963–1991. Haymon, Innsbruck 2011.
  • Band 2: In der Dunkelkammer. Frühe Prosa 1971–1982. Haymon, Innsbruck 2011.
  • Band 3: Fährdienst. Prosa 1983–1995. Haymon, Innsbruck 2012.
  • Band 4: Der Mann mit der Tür oder Vom Nutzen des Unnützen. Feuilletons. Haymon, Innsbruck 2013.
  • Band 5: Das Gedächtnis der Bilder. Texte zu Malerei und Fotografie. Haymon, Innsbruck 2014.
  • Band 6: Brandmale des Glücks. Prosa 1996–2014. Haymon, Innsbruck 2014.
  • Band 7: Außer Rufweite. Lyrik 1992–2013. Haymon, Innsbruck 2015.

Awards

Film

References

  1. ↑ IMDB, Merzluft, retrieved 1 May 2020