Ludwig Hohl
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Ludwig Hohl
Ludwig Hohl was born in Nestal, Switzerland, in 1904. He spent his twenties in Paris, Vienna and The Hague. In 1937, he returned to Biel, then moved to Geneva where he lived in a basement apartment and worked as a writer, initially publishing in newspapers only. Even though Hohl was highly esteemed by his peers, writers such as Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch and Peter Handke, he lived most of his life in relative obscurity, tasting success only in the last decade of his life, when he won the Robert Walser Centenary Prize in 1978. He is best known for his magnum opus Die Notizen. He died in Geneva in 1980, in the same year in which he received the Petrarca-Prize.
Ludwig Hohl was born in Nestal, Switzerland, in 1904. He spent his twenties in Paris, Vienna and The Hague. In 1937, he returned to Biel, then moved to Geneva where he lived in a basement apartment and worked as a writer, initially publishing in newspapers only. Even though Hohl was highly esteemed by his peers, writers such as Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch and Peter Handke, he lived most of his life in relative obscurity, tasting success only in the last decade of his life, when he won the Robert Walser Centenary Prize in 1978. He is best known for his magnum opus Die Notizen. He died in Geneva in 1980, in the same year in which he received the Petrarca-Prize.
Awards (selection)
Prize of the Schweizer Schillerstiftung 1970, 1976
Prize of the Schweizer Schillerstiftung 1970, 1976
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2023
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 2023
Ten Days / Report from a Journey Within
Ten Days and Report from a Journey Within are texts written during times of institutionalisation. Ten Days was recorded following an involuntary inpatient treatment at a Parisian psychiatric hospital. A decade after that, the Report from a Journey Within documents being held in investigative custody in the Saint-Antoine prison in Geneva. The texts describe...
Year of Publication: 2023
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 2023
The Penultimate Station. The Dingy Chronicles
The report The Penultimate Station, published from the author’s estate, is a chronicle of Ludwig Hohl‘s stay in the mountain village of Dingy and describes the real encounter with Georges Mergault, a degenerate acquaintance from the days in Montparnasse. In the unstable and sick artist’s existence of Mergault, the narrator finds himself confronted with a monstrous...
Year of Publication: 2023
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 2023
Report about Artemis
In 1949, Ludwig Hohl sent out his Report about Artemis. My Situation Created by Artemis Publishers to more than one hundred sympathetic authors, editors, representatives of the literary scene and authorities. In it, he describes a fight that had lasted several years between Hohl and his publisher about the publication of the second volume of his magnum opus The Notes or On...
Year of Publication: 2023
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 2023
A Strange Turn
A nameless author searches for his fortune in the strange metropolis of Paris. He falls into the hands of a shady art dealer named Schwänzel and in with a community of drinkers and vagabonds...
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France (Nouvel Attila)
Year of Publication: 2004
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 2004
From the Deep Sea
Midnight Society was supposed to be the title of the novel that Ludwig Hohl wanted to write about Bohemian life in 1920’s Paris. Dreamers, drinkers, scroungers,...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Nouvel Attila)
Year of Publication: 1981
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 1981
The Notes
The Notes – the work of a »Montaigne of our time« – were written between 1934 and 1936, three years during which Hohl lived in the Netherlands in »greatest spiritual solitude«....
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English world rights (Yale UP), Japan (Koyoshobo), Hungary (Bookart), Bulgaria (Europa), Czech Republic (Opus)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Éditions L'Age d'Homme), Italy (Marcos y Marcos), Netherlands (De Prom)
Year of Publication: 1975
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 1975
Nuances and Details
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Year of Publication: 1975
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 1975
Ascent
Ludwig Hohl began writing this story in 1926 and finished it only in 1975, in the year of its first publication. With his narrative he manages to establish an enigmatic simplicity where...
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USA & Canada (Black Square), France (Nouvel Attila), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Leesmagazijn), Denmark (Atlanten), Sweden (Ersatz), Hungary (Bookart), Turkey (Turkuvaz)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Minuscula), Russia (Raduga)
Year of Publication: 1971
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 1971
Nocturnal Path
This volume contains nine short stories that tell of those who seek, of people who are, exhausted, paralysed, expelled from society, nevertheless on their way of finding themselves. With...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Minuscula), France (Éditions L’Âge d’Homme), Italy (Marcos y Marcos), Netherlands (Leesmagazijn)
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