马丁·瓦尔泽(Martin Walser),1927年生于德国。1957年获黑塞奖,1962年获豪普特曼奖,1980年获席勒奖,1981年获毕希纳奖,1996年获荷尔德林奖。1998年10月再获德国书业和平奖。早期作品如广播剧本《外面》《小规模战争》和小说集《房屋上空一飞机》等受卡夫卡影响,情节离奇。后转向现实主义创作风格,主要作品有《菲利普斯堡的几桩婚烟》《克莱斯特茵三部曲》《爱的彼岸》《无家可归》《心灵的活动》《天鹅别墅》《爱的表白》《喷泉》等长篇小说、十多部剧本及其他体裁的作品。
Martin Walser (German: [ˈmaʁ.tiːn ˈvalˌzɐ] (listen); born 24 March 1927) is a German writer.
Life
Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance. His parents were coal merchants, and they also kept an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He described the environment in which he grew up in his novel Ein springender Brunnen (English: A Gushing Fountain). From 1938 to 1943 he was a pupil at the secondary school in Lindau and served in an anti-aircraft unit. According to documents released in June 2007, at the age of 17 he became a member of the Nazi Party on 20 April 1944, though Walser denied that he knowingly entered the party, a claim disputed by historian Juliane Wetzel. By the end of the Second World War, he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht. After the war he returned to his studies and completed his Abitur in 1946. He then studied literature, history, and philosophy at the University of Regensburg and the University of Tübingen. He received his doctorate in literature in 1951 for a thesis on Franz Kafka, written under the supervision of Friedrich Beißner.