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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.

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Lukas Bärfuss
Bärfuss in 2014
Born	(1971-12-30) 30 December 1971 (age 50) Thun, Switzerland
Occupation	Playwright, novelist
Language	German
Nationality	Swiss
Website
www.lukasbaerfuss.ch

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,[3] the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2014,[3] the Swiss Book Prize (German: Schweizer Buchpreis) in 2014 for Koala,[4] the Nicolas Born Prize in 2015, the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 2016, and the most prestigious German literature prize[5] the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019.[6][4][7] He was the first Swiss to win the Georg Büchner Prize in 25 years, the last Swiss winner being Adolf Muschg in 1994.

Memberships

Bärfuss has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since early summer 2015.[2][8]

Works

Plays

Books

• Die toten Männer. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. 2002. ISBN 3-518-12306-8.
• Hundert Tage. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2008. ISBN 978-3-8353-0271-6.
  • Hundert Tage. Munich: btb Verlag. 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-73903-5.
• Koala. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2014. ISBN 978-3-8353-0653-0.
• Stil und Moral. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2015. ISBN 978-3-8353-1679-9.
• Hagard. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2017. ISBN 978-3-8353-1840-3.
• Krieg und Liebe. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2018. ISBN 978-3-8353-3241-6.
• Contact. with Michael Günzburger. Zürich: Edition Patrick Frey. 2018. ISBN 978-3-906803-59-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Malinois. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2019. ISBN 978-3-8353-3600-1.
• Die Krone der Schöpfung. Essays. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2020. ISBN 978-3-8353-3831-9.

References

External links

• Official website

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