Markus Bundi
Birth date7 August 1969 (age 57)
Birth placeWettingen, Baden, Aargau, Switzerland
OccupationEditor, educator, translator, writer
Alma materUniversity of Zurich
PeriodContemporary
Years active2001 – present
GenresCrime fiction · essay · satire · social science fiction
Websitemarkusbundi.ch

Markus Bundi (born 7 August 1969 in Wettingen[1]) is a Swiss writer.

Early life, education and career

Bundi grew up in Nussbaumen in the municipality of Obersiggenthal near Baden in the canton of Aargau.

After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy, new German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. During his studies, he worked as a sports editor at the Badener Tagblatt from 1995 to 1996, after which he was culture editor at the Aargauer Zeitung until 2005.[2]

In 2001 and 2002, Markus Bundi served on the program committee of the Solothurner Literaturtage.[3]

Since 2005, he has taught philosophy and German at the Old Cantonal School Aarau.[4]

Bundi became known to a wider audience with his 2011 novella Emilie's Silence (German: Emilies Schweigen), in which Emilie T., a nurse accused of killing more than 70 patients, does not speak a word during the entire trial. Instead, her young public defender, David Moor, speaks, and through his strategy of in dubio pro reo he achieves an acquittal despite being convinced of Emilie's guilt. The story received positive reviews outside Switzerland as well.[5]

In January 2021, Bundi's dystopian novel The Last Colony (German: Die letzte Kolonie) was published, in which he tells the story of the last human colony living underground in a state of twilight.[6]

Since 2001, Bundi has worked as a writer and as the editor of the edition of Klaus Merz's works at Haymon Verlag.[3][7] At Wolfbach Verlag, he edited the poetry series "The Row" (German: Die Reihe) since 2010, in which at least four titles were published each year.[8]

Personal life

Bundi lives in Neuenhof in the canton of Aargau.[9]

Works

Novels, novellas, short stories

Essays

  • Denkzettel (Betrachtungen zur Lage der Gesellschaft). Wien: Septime Verlag. 2022. ISBN 978-3-99120-015-4.

On Urs Faes

On Christian Haller

On Marlen Haushofer

On Heinrich von Kleist

  • Der Vater ist der Vater (Zu Heinrich von Kleists unwahrscheinlichen Wahrhaftigkeiten). Innsbruck: Limbus Verlag. 2021. ISBN 978-3-99039-134-1.

On Klaus Merz

On Franz Tumler

  • Wirklichkeit im Nachsitzen (Ein Essay zur Ästhetik in Franz Tumlers Spätwerk). Innsbruck: Haymon Verlag. 2018. ISBN 978-3709934210.

Collaborative collections

Handbooks

  • Die Aufgabe (Handbuch für gute Lehrpersonen). Bern: hep Verlag. 2020. ISBN 978-3-0355-1681-4.

Poetry

  • Aus Zeiten (Gedichte). Zürich: Wolfbach Verlag. 2001. ISBN 3-95-22831-0-X.
  • Lichterdings (Prosa & Gedichte). Zürich: Wolfbach Verlag. 2002. ISBN 3-95 22831-1-8.
  • Entsichert (Gedichte). Eggingen: Edition Isele. 2004. ISBN 3-86142-303-0.
  • Das Grinsen des Horizonts (Prosa und Gedichte). Eggingen: Edition Isele. 2007. ISBN 978-3-86142-424-6.
  • Kleine Rolle rückwärts (Gedichte). Eggingen: Edition Isele. 2013. ISBN 978-3-86142-574-8.
  • Ankunft der Seifenblasen (Gedichte). Frauenfeld: Waldgut Verlag. 2018. ISBN 978-3-03740-134-7.
  • Lichte Anker (Gedichte). Luzern: edition ars pro toto. 2024. ISBN 978-3-9525838-2-1.

Theater

References

  1. ^ "Bundi Markus". Bibliomedia Schweiz. 2016. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  2. ^ "Markus Bundi — 4 Bücher". Perlentaucher. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  3. ^ "Aargau Solothurn — Markus Bundi: "Wir werden durch Sprache manipuliert"". SRF. May 10, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  4. ^ "Markus Bindi". Alte Kantonsschule Aarau. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  5. ^ Emilies Schweigen 2013.
  6. ^ "Markus Bundi | Die letzte Kolonie". Septime. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  7. ^ "Markus Bundi". Viceversa Literatur. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  8. ^ "Die Reihe". Wolfbach Verlag Zürich. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  9. ^ "Markus Bundi". AN|SICH|TEN – SRF Schweizer Literatur. 2023. Retrieved July 10, 2023.

See also