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Peter von Matt
Matt in 2008
Born(1937-05-20)20 May 1937
Died21 April 2025(2025-04-21) (aged 87)

Peter von Matt (20 May 1937 – 21 April 2025) was a Swiss philologist, specialist in German studies, and author. He was an authority in literary education.

Life and career

Born in Lucerne on 20 May 1937,[1] Peter von Matt grew up in Stans in the canton of Nidwalden.[2] He studied art history as well as German and English studies in Zurich and received a doctorate with Emil Staiger on Franz Grillparzer.[3] In 1970, he received his post doctorate lecturing qualifications with a work on E. T. A. Hoffmann.[3]

From 1976 to 2002, von Matt taught at the University of Zurich as a Professor of Newer German Literature.[4] He was a guest professor at Stanford University in 1980 and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin in 1992/93.[5] Von Matt was a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung,[6] the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Academia Europaea,[7] the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities,[8] and the Sächsische Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts).[5] He wrote regular contributions for the Frankfurter Anthologie.[9] He regularly appeared on Marcel Reich-Ranicki's literary talk show Literarisches Quartett on German public television.[10] Reich-Ranicki once called von Matt the "best writer of German-speaking Switzerland".[11] Von Matt was a friend of Max Frisch.[10] In his essays, von Matt also wrote on social and political issues,[12] and explored the European identity and the Swiss soul.[13] In a legendary appearance at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1991, von Matt protested against prejudices towards Swiss literature: "As soon as a Swiss person reads, it is immediately said that they have a tongue like a forest snail".[14] In his book Liebesverrat : die Treulosen in der Literatur, he guided entertainingly through love dramas in world literature.[15]

He was married to literary critic Beatrice von Matt-Albrecht and lived with her in Dübendorf near Zurich.[16][17]

Von Matt died in Zurich on 21 April 2025, at the age of 87.[18][19]

Works

  • Matt, Peter von (2000). ...fertig ist das Angesicht : zur Literaturgeschichte des menschlichen Gesichts [...the Face is done. About the Literary History of the human Faces] (in German). München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-423-30769-2. OCLC 48476997.
  • —— (2004). Liebesverrat : die Treulosen in der Literatur [Romantic Treachery - The Faithless in Literatur] (in German). München: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl. ISBN 3-423-30143-0. OCLC 315917260.
  • —— (1994). Das Schicksal der Phantasie : Studien zur deutschen Literatur [Fantasy's Fate. Studies about German Literature] (in German). München: C. Hanser. ISBN 3-446-17689-6. OCLC 30461651.
  • —— (1997). Verkommene Söhne, missratene Töchter : Familiendesaster in der Literatur [Deteriorated Sons, Ill-bred Daughters. Family Disasters in Literature] (in German). München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-423-30647-5. OCLC 40331948.
  • —— (2001). Die verdächtige Pracht: Über Dichter und Gedichte [The suspicious Magnificence. About Poetry and Poems] (in German). München: dtv Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-423-30826-7. OCLC 76339467.
  • —— (2001). Die tintenblauen Eidgenossen : über die literarische und politische Schweiz [The Ink-blue Swiss. About Swiss Literature and Poilics] (in German). München: Hanser. ISBN 3-446-20096-7. OCLC 48027990.
  • —— (2003). Öffentliche Verehrung der Luftgeister : Reden zur Literatur [Public Worship and Air Ghosts] (in German). München: Hanser. ISBN 3-446-20379-6. OCLC 53057802.
  • —— (2006). Die Intrige : Theorie und Praxis der Hinterlist [The Intrigue. Theories and Practice of Trickery] (in German). München: C. Hanser. ISBN 3-446-20731-7. OCLC 63514256.
  • —— (2007). Das Wilde und die Ordnung : zur deutschen Literatur [The Wild and the Ordered. About German Literature] (in German). München: Hanser. ISBN 978-3-446-20840-7. OCLC 82149049. The Wild and the Ordered. About German Literature
  • —— (2007). Der Entflammte : über Elias Canetti [The Inflamed. About Elias Canetti] (in German). : Nagel & Kimche. ISBN 978-3-312-00391-4. OCLC 82149035.
  • —— (2012). Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost : zur Literatur und Politik der Schweiz [The calf in front of the Gotthard post. About Swiss literature and politics] (in German). München: Carl Hanser Verlag. ISBN 978-3-446-23880-0. OCLC 775411398. Winner of the 2012 Swiss Book Prize.
  • —— (3 October 2024). Recht, Gerechtigkeit und Sympathie (in German). Baden-Baden: BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN 978-3-03751-569-3.
  • —— (30 January 2017). Sieben Küsse (in German). München: Carl Hanser Verlag. ISBN 978-3-446-25462-6. OCLC 973223487. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  • —— (17 March 2017). Was ist ein Gedicht? (in German). Stuttgart: Reclam. ISBN 978-3-15-019444-7.
  • —— (2017). Don Quijote reitet über alle Grenzen (in German). Basel: Schwabe Verl. ISBN 978-3-7965-3737-0.
  • —— (20 February 2023). Übeltäter, trockne Schleicher, Lichtgestalten (in German). München: Hanser. ISBN 978-3-446-27616-1.

Thesis

  • Matt, Peter von (1965). Der Grundriss von Grillparzers Bühnenkunst [The outline of Grillparzer's Pear Art] (dissertation) (in German). Zürich: Atlantis-Verlag. OCLC 1283696.
  • —— (1971). Die Augen der Automaten; E.T.A. Hoffmanns Imaginationslehre als Prinzip seiner Erzählkunst [The Eye of the Machines. E. T. A. Hoffmann's Imagination Teaching as a Principle of his Narrative Art] (habilitation) (in German). Tübingen: M. Niemeyer. ISBN 3-484-18018-8. OCLC 324885.

Awards

References

  1. ^ ""Getrennt schreiben, gemeinsam besprechen"". St. Galler Tagblatt (in German). 13 April 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Rezaee, Omid (22 April 2025). "Literatur: Schweizer Literaturwissenschaftler Peter von Matt gestorben". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  3. ^ a b c "Peter von Matt ist tot: Nachruf auf einen Ausnahme-Germanisten". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 22 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  4. ^ "Peter von Matt ist gestorben". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 22 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Peter von Matt". SAK (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Peter von Matt". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  7. ^ Hasani, Ilire; Hoffmann, Robert. "Academy of Europe: Matt Peter". Academy of Europe. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Members: Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony (NAWG)". Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Matt". Suhrkamp Verlag (in German). 16 June 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  10. ^ a b Weidermann, Volker (22 April 2025). "Peter von Matt: Immer den murmelnden Globus im Ohr". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  11. ^ "Bücher über Literatur". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 22 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Schweizer Schriftsteller Peter von Matt gestorben". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 22 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  13. ^ "Literaturwissenschaftler mit Witz und Tiefgang". NDR.de (in German). 22 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  14. ^ Bucheli, Roman (22 April 2025). "Peter von Matt: Germanist und Literaturversteher stirbt mit 87". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  15. ^ "Germanist und Schriftsteller: Der Literatur-Betrachter: Peter von Matt mit 87 gestorben". stuttgarter-zeitung.de (in German). 22 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  16. ^ Wehowsky, Stephan (18 May 2022). "Peter von Matt". Journal21 (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  17. ^ Theisohn, Philipp (22 April 2025). "Ein großer Erzähler: Peter von Matt gestorben". FAZ.NET (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  18. ^ Der Literatur-Betrachter: Peter von Matt mit 87 gestorben. zeit.de (dpa), 22 April 2025 (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  19. ^ "Matt". Akademie der Künste, Berlin (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h "Personen". UZH (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  21. ^ "Matt". ORDEN POUR LE MÉRITE (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  22. ^ ""Deutscher Sprachpreis" 2004 an Peter von Matt". Informationsdienst Wissenschaft – News (in German). 28 July 2004. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  23. ^ "Brüder Grimm-Preis an Peter von Matt". Philipps-Universität Marburg (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  24. ^ "Peter von Matt". Schweizer Buchpreis (in German). 12 July 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2025.

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