Beat Sterchi

Beat Sterchi (born December 12, 1949 in Bern ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

After attending primary and secondary school, Beat Sterchi did an apprenticeship as a butcher . In 1970 he emigrated to Canada , where he carried out various activities and also attended evening school . He then completed his English studies at the University of British Columbia near Vancouver with a bachelor's degree . In 1975 he went to Honduras , where he worked as an English teacher in the capital Tegucigalpa until 1977 and published his first poems in English and German. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at McGill University in Montréal and worked as a teacher at the Goethe Institute there . Sterchi became known in 1983 with his novel Blösch , for which he received several awards. From 1984 to 1994 Sterchi lived as a freelance writer in a Spanish village near Valencia . His current residence is Bern . Sterchi has been a member of the author group Bern is everywhere since 2003 .

The Swiss Literary Archives of the Swiss National Library acquired Beat Sterchi's archive in 2008. In particular, it includes the work documentation for the novel Blösch .

Awards

• 1983 Aspect Literature Prize (together with Zsuzsanna Gahse )
• 1983 Wine Prize for Literature
• 1984 Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation for Blösch
• 1984 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
• 1988 Prize of the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry
• 1996 Radio Play Prize from the Radio Basel Foundation for Der Forschtinspäkter
• 2001 Literature Prize of the City of Bern
• 2003 Prize of the Welti Foundation for the drama for Nach Addis Ababa

Works

• Blösch. Zurich 1983.
  • as audio book on 2 CD; Read in full by Sebastian Mattmüller. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-85616-435-5 .
• Sketches from a Spanish village. Göttingen 1985.
• Going to Santiago. Zurich 1995.
• Um Gessler sy Huet. Belp 1997.
• Dr Forstinspäkter. Belp 1997.
• Nid lugg lah winnt. Belp 1997.
• Dr Sudu. Belp 1997.
• From the misery in the executive suite. Belp 1997.
• I am not Melania Meiler. Belp 1998.
• The birthmark. Belp 1998.
• Something small even on Sundays. Zurich 1999.
• Walked gang gang . Der Gesunde Menschenversand, Lucerne 2010 (Edition spoken script), ISBN 978-3-90582-516-9 .
• Courage to come of age. Reading and writing in Switzerland. (Supplemented by Pedro Lenz). Edition adhoc, Langenthal 2016, ISBN 978-3-9524630-0-0 .
• U no involved . Der Gesunde Menschenversand, Lucerne 2016 (edition spoken script), ISBN 978-3-03853-020-6 .
• But there is none . The Healthy People Dispatch, Lucerne 2018, ISBN 978-3-03853-072-5 .

Editing

• To honor the day. Muri near Bern 1992.
• together with Cornelia Luchsinger: Ferdinand Hodler. Biographical memories. With a biography by Konrad Farner. Scheidegger & Spiess, 2004, ISBN 3-85881-156-4 .

literature

• Stefan Hofer: The connection between animal ethics and migration problems: Beat Sterchis Blösch in the context of transcultural literature in German-speaking Switzerland . In: Gil Valdés, María Jesús; Gimber, Arno (ed.): Sincronías en el pasado ... diacronías en el presente. (= Revista de Filología Alemana. Anejo III. Series de Monografías). Madrid: Publicaciones Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2010, pp. 125–140.
• Stefan Hulfeld : Beat Sterchi . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1754 f.

Web links

• Beat Sterchi's website
• Beat Sterchi archive in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Publications by and about Beat Sterchi in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Beat Sterchi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Beat Sterchi in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bibliomedia.ch
2. ↑ Media report book publication. Retrieved June 9, 2018 . 
3. ^ Website Verlag Der Gesunde Menschenversand. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .