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'''Lothar Baier''' (16 May 1942 – 11 July 2004) was a German [[author]], publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical [[Text+Kritik]].

Baier was born in [[Karlsruhe]].
He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the [[French language|Francophone]] World and was recognized with the 1982 [[Jean Améry]] Prize for Essayists and with the 2003 [[Gerrit Engelke Prize]].  Baier published amongst others in the ''[[Merkur (journal)|Merkur]]'', in the ''[[Kursbuch]]'' and in the [[Deutschlandfunk]] and was for many years the editor of the [[Die Wochenzeitung|Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ)]] in Zürich.

On 11 July 2004, Baier committed [[suicide]] in [[Montreal|Montreal, Quebec]], Canada.

==Works==
*''Über [[Ror Wolf]]''. Editor, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1972
*''Französischen Zustände. Berichte und Essays'' (French State. Reports and Essays). Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1982.
*''Jahrsfrist''. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag 1985
*''Firma Frankreich. Eine Betriebsbesichtigung'' (Company France. A Business Report). Berlin: Wagenbach 1988.
*''Gleichheitszeichen. Streitschriften über Abweichung und Identität'' (Identical Signs. Argumentative Writing about Allowance and Identity). Berlin: Wagenbach 1985.
*''Un allemand né de la dernière guerre. essai''. Paris: Calmann-Lévy 1989.
*''Volk ohne Zeit. Essay über das eilige Vaterland'' (People without Time. Essay about a Hurried Fatherland). Berlin: Wagenbach 1990.
*''Zeichen und Wunder. Kritiken und Essays'' (Signs and Wonder.  Critiques and Essays). Berlin: Ed. Tiamat 1990.
*''Die große Ketzerei. Verfolgung und Ausrottung der Katharer durch Kirche und Wissenschaft'' (The Great Heresy. Persecution and Extermination through Church and Science). Berlin: Wagenbach 1991.
* "Farewell to Regionalism". ''[[Telos (journal)|Telos]]'' 90 (Winter 1991–2). New York: [http://www.telospress.com Telos Press]
*''Christoph Hein. Texte, Daten, Bilder'' (Christoph Hein. Texts, Dates, Pictures). Editor, Frankfurt am Main: [[Luchterhand Literaturverlag|Luchterhand]] 1990.
*''Die verleugnete Utopie. Zeitkritische Texte'' (The Denied Utopia. Time Critical Texts). Berlin: Aufbau 1993.
*''Ostwestpassagen. Kulturwandel – Sprachzeiten'' (East West Passages. Cultural Change – Language Times). München: Antje Kunstmann 1995.
*''Keine Zeit. 18 Versuche über die Beschleunigung'' (No Time. 18 Attempts at Acceleration). München: Antje Kunstmann 2000.
*''Anders schreibendes Amerika. Eine Anthologie der Literatur aus Quebec 1945 – 2000'' (Other Literary America. An anthology of the Literature from Quebec 1945–2000). Editors Lothar Baier and Pierre Filion. Heidelberg: Verlag Wunderhorn 2000.
*''Was wird Literatur?'' (What becomes Literature?) München: Antje Kunstmann 2001

==External links==
*[http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=12240145X Literature by and on Lothar Baier] in the Catalog of the [[German National Library]] {{in lang|de}}
*[http://www.literaturhaus.at/autoren/F/fried/gesellschaft/mitglieder/baier/ Short Biography] {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071012005508/http://www.edition-tiamat.de/Autoren/lothar%20baier.htm Obituary from the Publisher] [[Klaus Bittermann]] {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004520/http://www.woz.ch/artikel/archiv/10306.html ''In einer anderen Welt'' (In another World)] Obituary in the WOZ by [[Susan Boos]] {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050221010933/http://www.freitag.de/2004/31/04311601.php Obituary in the Freitag by] [[Erich Hackl]] {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707005638/http://www.woz.ch/artikel/archiv/10284.html ''Ein Schweigen aus Montreal'' (A Silence from Montreal)] Obituary in the WOZ by [[Stefan Keller]] {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004549/http://www.woz.ch/artikel/archiv/10321.html ''Einen Meister verloren'' (A Master Left)] Obituary in the WOZ by [[Paul Parin]] {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184630/http://www.woz.ch/artikel/inhalt/2004/nr30/Kultur/10319.html ''In Kants Republik'' (In Kant's Republic)] Obituary in the WOZ by [[Manfred Züfle]] {{in lang|de}}
*[https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article327582/Die_Flucht_des_Buchstabenmenschen_Zum_Tod_Lothar_Baiers.html ''Die Flucht des Buchstabenmenschen: Zum Tod Lothar Baiers'' (The Flight of the Lettered People: On Lothar Baier's Death] Obituary in the WELT from July 15, 2004 {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20000831113208/http://www.freitag.de/1999/49/99491602.htm ''Eine Art schattenloser Existenz'' (An Art of Shadowless Existence)] {{in lang|de}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930161922/http://www.anthropoid.info/sites/baier.html A Selection of his books with Table of Contents] {{in lang|de}}

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