Barbara Trotter

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Barbara Traber (born February 23, 1943 in Thun ) is a Swiss writer , journalist and editor . She is the author of literature in Standard German and in Bernese dialect and a translator (from French and English ).

Life

After compulsory schooling, Barbara Traber attended the business school in Bern , from which she graduated with a commercial diploma. She then worked in London as Elias Canetti's private secretary . In Lagos she was the secretary of the Swiss ambassador. She then started working as a flight attendant with Trans World Airlines in Paris.

After her return to Switzerland, she worked as a secretary at Hallwag-Verlag and at Radio Studio Bern. She has been a freelance writer since 1979, also working as an editor, proofreader, journalist, translator and editor of numerous dialect anthologies .

Barbara Traber was married to Markus Traber († 2010), the well-known songwriter and member of the Bernese Troubadours . She lives with her family in Worb .

She is a member of the Bernese Writers' Association (BSV) and the Association of Swiss Authors . From 1993 to 1999 she was General Secretary of the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center .

Awards

Works

As an author

  • Bernese women. Forty important women from seven centuries . Wyss, Bern 1980
  • Bernese alleys . With photos by Eduard Rieben. Wyss, Bern 1980
  • Non-productive time . Novel. In: ... seeks love . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1982
  • Mother moments. Poems about mother and child . Edition Erpf, Bern 1985
  • Quiet days by the river . Novel. Im Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1995, ISBN 3-7294-0218-8
  • Efföi in Chishtli . Bern German stories. Emmentaler Druck, Langnau 1995
  • Glismeti stocking. Chindsgy i de fifty years . Dialect novel. Licorne, Murten 1997
  • Tulip tree. Novel . Im Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1998, ISBN 3-7294-0271-4
  • The provincial adventure. A literary report about the Jura writer Werner Renfer . Orte, Zelg / Wolfhalden 1999, ISBN 3-85830-099-3
  • Café de Préty. Detective novel . Orte, Zelg / Wolfhalden 2000, ISBN 3-85830-110-8
  • Chicken in the Chörbli. Bern German stories . Licorne, Murten 2002
  • Advice and action. The Bern town hall . State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern, 2003
  • My daughter wants to dance. The other ballet book for mothers and teenagers . Cosmos, Muri 2003, ISBN 3-305-00356-1
  • The proof . Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk (SJW 2185), Zurich 2003
  • The power girls . Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk (SJW 2216), Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-7269-0517-0
  • Resin knock u soft Chnöi. Bärndütschi love story . Licorne, Murten 2006, ISBN 3-85654-163-2
  • Death in the book village. Detective novel . Orte, Zelg / Wolfhalden 2007, ISBN 3-85830-141-8
  • Flies and love. Records of an air hostess . MeaLittera, Eschborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-942260-03-9
  • Deadly rope team . Gmeiner, Messkirch 2012, ISBN 978-3-8392-1291-2
  • Vo after u vo wytem . Novel. Landverlag, Langnau 2013, ISBN 978-3-905980-20-2
  • Forever young and beautiful: Olga Picabia-Mohler (1905-2002) . Zytglogge, Oberhofen am Thunersee 2014, ISBN 978-3-7296-0879-5
  • On the bridges of friendship. A life between literature and music . Waldgut, Frauenfeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-03740-148-4

As editor

  • Bärndütschi love poem . Benteli, Bern 1979
  • The Bärndütsche Gschichtebuech . Wyss, Bern 1981
  • I show up! Bern German children's stories. Fischer, Münsingen 1985
  • Gredt u gschrift . An anthology of new dialect literature in German-speaking Switzerland (with Christian Schmid-Cadalbert ). Sauerländer, Aarau 1987
  • Mutz. 50 years of the Bern Writers' Association 1939–1989 . Reader / lexicon / chronicle (with Hans Erpf). BSV, Bern 1989
  • The League of Oath Comrades . Rex, Lucerne / Stuttgart 1990
  • Uf em of bench . The Brattig ous glasses from Barbara Traber are relieved and disturbed. Licorne, Murten 1999
  • I have to worry . Bärndütschi love poem glasses by Barbara Traber. Licorne, Murten 2001

Translations

  • Michel Bühler: The stolen word. The long winter in Sainte-Croix . Novel. Limmat, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85791-148-4
  • Gilbert Jollier: The work of fire . In: Gasthaus depictions , edited by Henrik Rhyn . Edition Hans Erpf, Bern / Munich 1989
  • Sylviane Chatelain: shadow part . Erpf, Bern / Munich 1991
  • Kits Hilaire: Berlin, last performance . Erpf, Bern / Munich 1991
  • Rudolfo A. Anaya: The challenge . From the American. In: Freedom of Speech. A term edited by Henrik Rhyn. Erpf, Bern / Munich 1991
  • Goscinny / Uderzo : Asterix, d Rose u ds Schwärt (with Markus Traber). ED Emmentaler Druck, Langnau 1991
  • Trudi Worrell: The bridge . Erpf, Bern / Munich 1993
  • Sylviane Chatelain: The words ; Hughes Richard: Igloo Winter ; Bernadette Richard: Letter to a lover who passed away too early . In: Passerelle. Ten years of literary prizes from the Canton of Bern . Canevas Editeur, Dôle (F) / St-Imier 1993
  • Werner Renfer : "Hannebarde" and collected stories . From the French and with an afterword by Barbara Traber, ed. v. Charles Linsmayer . Huber, Frauenfeld 1997, ISBN 3-7193-1136-8
  • Charles-Albert Cingria : Yes, being born anew every day ... memories, glosses, theses, polemics . With an afterword ed. v. Charles Linsmayer. From the Franz. Barbara Traber et al. Huber, Frauenfeld 2001, ISBN 3-7193-1244-5
  • Richard Bach : D 'Seagull Jonathan. Bärndütsch (with Markus Traber). Diederichs / Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen / Munich 2007, ISBN 3-7205-3028-0
  • Peter Coolbak: Three hundred cowbells chase bandits away . Landverlag, Trubschachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-905980-00-4
  • Oxana Khlopina: Moravagine - Blaise Cendrars' shadow . Stämpfli, Bern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7272-1424-0
  • Daniel de Roulet : When the night falls to pieces: a letter to Ferdinand Hodler . Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85791-872-8
  • Francis Giauque : The glow of melancholy in the shadows of the night . Poems (translated by Christoph Ferber ) and prose (translated by Barbara Traber). With an afterword ed. v. Charles Linsmayer (Reprinted by Huber, Vol. 37). Th. Gut Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85717-280-9

Radio plays / radio broadcasts

  • Robert Schumann , Radio DRS, Bern 1976
  • Années de Pèlerinage: Franz Liszt and Switzerland , Radio DRS, Bern 1977
  • EN by Reznicek , Radio DRS, Bern 1977
  • Cosima Wagner , Radio DRS, Bern 1978

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Trotter, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, journalist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuna