Author and filmmaker Louis Jent died
The writer, screenwriter, director, and commercial filmmaker Louis Jent has died. He passed away at the age of 78 in Aarau, his family announced on Friday. Jent’s greatest successes were the novel *Ausflüchte* (1965) and the film *Das sexte Programm* (1971).
«Louis Jent suffers from having too many professions»: That’s how the online literary magazine *Null* once introduced him. Born on January 26, 1936, in Zurich, Louis Jent published his first short stories while still a teenager. After graduating from high school, he wrote literary and film reviews. His greatest artistic triumph came in 1963 when he was invited to the famous Gruppe 47 gathering in Saulgau. Nevertheless, after publishing two books—the novel *Ausflüchte* and the short story collection *Lächle noch einmal, Cynthia*—he put his literary career on hold and became a screenwriter at the German studio Bavaria, then a screenwriter and director at the Zurich-based Condor Films.
Moving to Spain
From 1971 to 1989, Jent produced commercials through his own production company, some of which won awards. He then moved to Spain, where, by his own account, he tried his hand at the visual arts. During that time, he was one of the first writers to discover the similarities between cyberspace and literary imagination—in the reinvention of the self. He began writing again and has been publishing his texts since 2009 on platforms such as Facebook. In his penultimate post there, he was looking for a housekeeper for his new apartment in Aarau. And in his last post, he was seeking a publisher for his short stories, «15 Attempts to Grow Old Alone.» (SDA)
