Alexander Ziegler (writer, 1944)

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Alexander Ziegler (born March 8, 1944 in Zurich ; † August 11, 1987 there ) was a Swiss actor , publicist and writer .

Life

At the age of 16, Ziegler contacted the Zurich theater director Oskar Wältin (1895–1961), who encouraged him and gave him small roles. Ziegler was then put in a reformatory by his parents. At the age of 17 he went to Vienna with a recommendation from Wälterlin , where he attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar (1960/61). He played in Wedekind's Spring Awakening (Vienna 1964) and in the American television series Boys and Girls of Fred Mallow . In 1966 he was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for a relationship with 16-year-old Stephan (Mutscha), which he had to serve in the Lenzburg correctional facility . His first, strongly autobiographical novel Labyrinth , published in 1970, was written behind prison walls . Then in 1971 he was offered the editor-in-chief of the gay magazine DU & ICH (1971–1979) in Hanover . During these nine years, Ziegler created many enemies through his political statements. Politically, the committed left had strong sympathy for Willy Brandt .

In July 1987, after the premiere of his play Kokain or Philipp Neukomm's lonely fight , he swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills , the consequences of which he died on the night of August 10th, 1987 in the rooms of the Zurich Chamber Theater ( Theater Stok ) .

Act

In November 1977 the television version of his novel Die Konsequenz was broadcast, which depicts the depressing and dramatic relationship between the actor Martin Kurath ( Jürgen Prochnow ) and the home-boy Thomas Manzoni ( Ernst Hannawald ). The film, which could only be released in a censored version and was completely boycotted by Bayerischer Rundfunk , sparked a tremendous response and gave many young gays the courage to find themselves. In 1978 he and Wolfgang Petersen received the Adolf Grimme Bronze Prize for this . Since then, Ziegler has been the best known and most widely read contemporary German language gay writer. In quick succession, other novels appeared in a man's love , The Tender , the drug ward , plays cell whispers , Happy End , Tribunal or The Moral Criminal , Cocaine and the collection of essays No Right to Love . At the same time, Ziegler, who lived in Stäfa with his friend Kurt Wernli , was an uninterrupted actor on Swiss stages. The Kießling-Wörner affair (1983/84) brought him back into the public eye.

Works

  • Labyrinth , 1970
  • The consequence , 1975
  • No right to love , 1978
  • A man's love , 1980
  • Board games , 1980 (contains the plays Willkommen in Mariental and Saturday evening as well as case studies on the situation in Swiss homes)
  • Anxiety Dreams , 1981
  • The Affectionate , 1982
  • I confess 1985
  • Scoundrel Laughter , 1985

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel : Marriage to Edgar . Issue 18/1970, pp. 214–217.
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor, publicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1987
Place of death Zurich