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
