Beat Portmann
Beat Portmann (* 1976 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss writer, journalist and songwriter.
Life
Beat Portmann was born in Lucerne as the son of a sacristan and former Carthusian and a farmer's daughter from poor backgrounds. At the age of twelve he went to a Catholic boarding school in eastern Switzerland. He later moved to Emmenbrücke, where he attended the Reussbühl canton school in Lucerne, which he broke off a year before his Matura. In the following year he wrote two drafts for novels and received a work award from the canton and the city of Lucerne for extracts from them.
Portmann did community service with mountain farmers in Central Switzerland. He was a sacristan, nanny, waiter and self-published short stories, poems and aphorisms.
He completed a preliminary course at the jazz department of the Lucerne School of Music. He developed the card game ‹Jarmony›, which was published by the Lucerne School of Music, but failed due to the practical entrance exam.
He worked in horticulture for seven years and began working on his novels. He also writes journalistic works, articles for “041 Das Kulturmagazin”, columns for “Zentral +” and the essay “Reise an Another Ort” for the ADAC travel magazine April 2014.
Beat Portmann lives as a freelance author and songwriter in Emmenbrücke.
Works
Novels
- Durst , Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85791-561-1
- Alles still , Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85791-642-7
- Before Time , Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85791-752-3
Serialized novel
- Everything will be fine
Plays
- Weather lights , world premiere in 2013 Lucerne Open Air Theater, director: Volker Hesse
Awards
- 1998 work award from the canton and city of Lucerne
- 2011 Culture Heads, 041 Das Kulturmagazin
- 2013 Emmer Culture Prize
Web links
- Publications by and about Beat Portmann in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Beat Portmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Beat Portmann - About the biography , on the website of Limmat-Verlag
- The lust for disobedience , article in the weekly newspaper from January 19, 2012
- The declaration of love from the writer Beat Portmann to Emmen , article from September 15, 2013 on the website of Swiss radio and television
- Proud Emmen Brückler hopes on Judgment Day - 50 questions for ... Beat Portmann , articles of 19 June 2016 the website zentralplus.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Everything will be fine , online magazine Zentralplus.ch, Lucerne 2016
- ↑ Emmer Kulturpreis 2013 goes to writer Beat Portmann , article from September 12, 2013 on the website of the municipality of Emmen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Portmann, Beat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |