Peter Weber
Switzerland
Peter Weber, born in Wattwil in 1968, seeks, like hardly any other author of his generation, the music in language, the sound of words and sentences. His debut novel Der Wettermacher was hailed in 1993 as a “narrative high-pressure area” (Die Zeit) and earned him several prestigious literary awards. Since then, Peter Weber has been regarded as a strikingly independent voice in Swiss literature. His novels stand out from the monotony of contemporary literature thanks to their musical and original language, as the FAZ notes. Peter Weber’s work is characterised by his exuberant imagination and his keen sense of rhythm. Through rhythm, he explores language, and through language, rhythm. No wonder the jaw harp is his instrument.
He defies the conventions of the literary world, and even if a text has taken on a seemingly fixed form between two book covers, for Peter Weber this is merely a sensible interim stage, but never the end of the ongoing process of revision.
At the Leukerbad Literature Festival, he and his editor Christian Döring trace the history of the extraordinary journey of the Wettermacher into its book form – and explore the question of what constitutes the vitality of texts.
Die melodielosen Jahre. Novel. Suhrkamp 2007
Bahnhofsprosa. Miniatures. Suhrkamp 2002
Der Wettermacher. Novel. Suhrkamp 1993. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 1996
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