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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.
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]
In 2019, he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize for his dramas, novels and essays.[5][4][6] The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung praised his work, among other things, as being permeated by "a high degree of stylistic certainty and formal richness of variation"[7] that explores "always anew and differently fundamental existential situations of modern life." The prize was awarded in Darmstadt on November 2, 2019.[8] The Georg Büchner Prize is regarded as the most prestigious prize in German literature. Bärfuss was the fourth Swiss to win the Prize and the first Swiss winner in 25 years, the last Swiss winner being Adolf Muschg in 1994.[9]
Memberships
Bärfuss has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since early summer 2015.[2][10]
Works
Plays
Sophokles' Ödipus (1998)
Siebzehn Uhr Siebzehn (2000)
74 Sekunden (2000)
Vier Frauen (2000)
Die Reise von Klaus und Edith durch den Schacht zum Mittelpunkt der Erde (2001)