Peter von Matt#

Peter von Matt
Membership Number:895
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES
Elected:1990
Main Country of Residence:SWITZERLAND




Present and Previous Positions
  • 1976 - 2002 Professor of Newer German Literature, University of Zurich
  • 1992 - 1993 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
  • 1980 Guest professor at Stanford University in 1980

Fields of Scholarship
  • Newer German literature

Honours and Awards
  • Member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
  • Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts (Sächsische Akademie der Künste)
  • 1991 Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Literary Critque and Essay
  • 1994 Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis
  • 1995 Innerschweizer Kulturpreis (Innerswiss Culture Prize)
  • 1997 Order of Pour le Mérite for Science and Art
  • 1998 Prize of the Frankfurter Anthologie
  • 2000 Art Prize of the City of Zurich
  • 2001 Friedrich Märker Prize for Essayists
  • 2002 Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon (Lausanne)
  • 2004 Deutscher Sprachpreis (German Language Prize)
  • 2006 Heinrich Mann Prize
  • 2007 Brothers Grimm Prize of the University of Marburg
  • 2012 Swiss Book Prize for Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost
  • 2014 Goethe Prize


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