Hermann Burger (July 10, 1942 – February 28, 1989), was a Swiss poet, novelist and essayist. In his creative works Burger often focused on society's lonely outsiders and, increasingly, the inevitability of death. His virtuosity in applying literary styles and use of thorough research are significant features of many of his publications. July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... Research is often described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising facts. ...

Life

Hermann Burger was born in 1942 in Burg, Canton of Aargau; his father worked for an insurance company. He enrolled at the ETH Zurich in 1962 and began studying architecture, but switched to German literature and art history in 1964. The publication of the poetry collection "Rauchsignale" ("Smoke Signals") in 1967 marked the beginning of his literary career, followed by the prose collection "Bork" in 1970. For the next couple of years Burger focused on his career in literary studies, writing his thesis on Paul Celan and his habilitation treatise on contemporary Swiss literature. He taught at universities in Zurich, Bern and Fribourg and worked as a literary editor for the Aargauer Tagblatt. His academic experience is reflected in the loosely autobiographical novel "Die künstliche Mutter" ("The Artificial Mother") which won him the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis in 1980. 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... -burg occurs on the end of many German placenames. ... For other uses, see Aargau (disambiguation). ... The ETH Zurich, often called Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is a science and technology university in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Bork can mean: Robert Bork, an American legal scholar and former Supreme Court nominee Ellen Bork, daughter of Robert Bork and deputy director of Project for the New American Century a word the Swedish Chef used in The Muppet Show to parody the Swedish language (Børk, børk, b... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Look up thesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Paul Celan Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (Celan is an anagram of the Romanian spelling of his surname, Ancel), one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. ... There is no such thing as a Swiss national vernacular literature properly speaking, this being explained by the diversity between the states of which it is composed, which has not favored any common intellectual life. ... Location within Switzerland   Zürich[?] (German pronunciation IPA: ; usually spelled Zurich in English) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... Location within Switzerland The city of Bern, English traditionally Berne (Bernese German Bärn , German Bern , French Berne , Italian Berna , Romansh Berna ), is the Bundesstadt (administrative capital) of Switzerland, and is the fourth most populous Swiss city (after Zürich, Geneva and Basel). ... Fribourg (French; German: Freiburg or Freiburg im Ãœechtland, often Fribourg) is a city in the country of Switzerland and the capital of the Swiss Canton of Fribourg on the river Saane/Sarine. ... The Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis is a literary award in memory of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Burger's first major novel "Schilten. Schulbericht zuhanden der Inspektorenkonferenz" ("Schilten. School Report for the Attention of the Inspectors' Conference") was published in 1976 and made into a movie by Swiss film director Beat Kuert in 1979. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1985 for his story "Die Wasserfallfinsternis von Badgastein" ("The Waterfall-Eclipse of Badgastein"). Burger's depressive and desperate moods grew with his literary acclaim, leading him to write the "Tractatus logico-suicidalis" (1988), a collection of aphorisms advocating suicide. On February 28, 1989 he committed suicide in Brunegg by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, awarded yearly in Klagenfurt, Austria during a publicized event which lasts several days, is one of the most important awards for German literature. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aphorism (from the Greek αφοριζειν, to define), literally a distinction or a definition, is a term used to describe a principle expressed tersely in a few telling words or any general truth conveyed in a short and pithy sentence, in such a way that when once heard it is unlikely to... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

List of works

• Rauchsignale (1967) poems
• Bork (1970) prose pieces
• Schilten. Schulberichtzuhanden der Inspektorenkonferenz (1976) monologue
• Diabelli (1979) stories
• Kirchberger idyllen (1980) poems
• Die Künstliche Mutter (1982) novel
• Ein Mann aus Wörtern (1983)
• Die allmähliche Verfertigung der Idee beim Schreiben (1986)
• Blankenburg (1986) stories
• Als Autor auf der Stör (1987)
• Der Schuss auf die Kanzel. Eine Erzählung (1988)
• Tractatus logico-suicidalis. Über die Selbsttötung (1988)
• Brenner (volume 1 published in 1989; volume 2 published posthumously in 1992)

Bork can mean: Robert Bork, an American legal scholar and former Supreme Court nominee Ellen Bork, daughter of Robert Bork and deputy director of Project for the New American Century a word the Swedish Chef used in The Muppet Show to parody the Swedish language (Børk, børk, b... There are at least two places called Blankenburg. ... Brenner might refer to the Brenner Pass, one of the major passes through the Alps Sydney Brenner, a biologist This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

External links

• http://www.cpw-online.de/lemmata/burger_hermann.htm
• http://hermann_burger.know-library.net/
• http://www.svbbpt.ch/Literatur/deutsch/treschT12.htm