Peter von Matt
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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
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- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Winner of the 2012 Swiss Book Prize.
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Thesis
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Awards
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- 1991: Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Literary Critique and Essay[20]
- 1994: Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis[20]
- 1995: Template:Ill (Innerswiss Culture Prize)[20]
- 1997: Order of Pour le Mérite for Science and Art[20][21]
- 1998: Prize of the Frankfurter Anthologie[20]
- 2000: Art Prize of the City of Zurich[20]
- 2001: Template:Ill for Essayists[20]
- 2002: Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon (Lausanne)[20]
- 2004: Template:Ill (German Language Prize)[22]
- 2006: Heinrich Mann Prize[2]
- 2007: Brothers Grimm Prize of the University of Marburg[23]
- 2012: Swiss Book Prize for Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost[3][24]
- 2014: Goethe Prize[2]
References
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- ↑ Der Literatur-Betrachter: Peter von Matt mit 87 gestorben. zeit.de (dpa), 22 April 2025 (in German). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
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Further reading
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Obituaries
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External links
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- Literature by and on Peter von Matt in the Catalog of the German National Library
- A*dS-Lexikon