Lothar Baier was a German

Germany

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 author

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, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical text + kritik.

He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the Francophone

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 World and was recognized with the 1982 Jean Améry

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 Prize for Essayists and with the 2003 Gerrit Engelke Prize. Baier published amongst others in the Merkur

Merkur (journal)

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, in the Kursbuch and in the Deutschlandfunk

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 and was for many years the editor of the Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ) in Zürich.

On 11 July 2004, Baier committed suicide

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 in Montreal

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, Canada

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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
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   90 (Winter 1991-2). New York: Telos Press
• Christoph Hein. Texte, Daten, Bilder (Christoph Hein. Texts, Dates, Pictures). Editor, Frankfurt am Main: 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

• Literature by and on Lothar Baier in the Catalog of the German National Library
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• Short Biography
• Obituary from the Publisher Klaus Bittermann 
• In einer anderen Welt (In another World) Obituary in the WOZ by Susan Boos 
• Obituary in the Freitag by Erich Hackl
  Erich Hackl
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• Ein Schweigen aus Montreal (A Silence from Montreal) Obituary in the WOZ by Stefan Keller
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• Einen Meister verloren (A Master Left) Obituary in the WOZ by Paul Parin
  Paul Parin
  Paul Parin was a Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist.He was born in Polzela , near Celje, Slovenia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a family of assimilated Jews. He studied medicine in Zagreb, Graz and Zürich. In Zürich, he met Goldy Matthèy-Guenet who became his wife...
  
   
• In Kants Republik (In Kant's Republic) Obituary in the WOZ by Manfred Züfle
• 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
• http://www.freitag.de/1999/49/99491602.htmEine Art schattenloser Existenz (An Art of Shadowless Existence)
• A Selection of his books with Table of Contents