Christian Haller (writer)

Christian Haller (born February 28, 1943 in Brugg , Canton Aargau ) is a Swiss dramaturge and writer .

Life

Haller studied zoology at the University of Basel . He worked for eight years as head of the “Social Studies” department at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute and for four years as a dramaturge at the Claque Theater in Baden . From 1994 to 2000 he was a member of the Theater Commission of the City of Zurich . Since the 1980s he wrote numerous short stories, novels and some stage plays. Some of his works have been translated into French, Russian and Romanian. He was a columnist for the Aargauer Zeitung and lives as a freelance writer in Laufenburg .

Awards (selection)

• 2006 Aargau Literature Prize
• 2007 Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation for the trilogy of remembrance
• 2015 Art Prize of the Canton of Aargau

Works

Books

• Half the dreams and other stories . Noack-Huebner, Munich 1980
• Prince Ramin's Tree . Coban, Lenzburg 1984
• Flotsam . Novel. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1991
• The letter to the sea . Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 1995
• Upside down or the trip to the trees. A story . Isele, Eggingen 1996, ISBN 3-86142-073-2
• The television is not a bad priest . Poems. Isele, Eggingen 1998, ISBN 3-86142-107-0
• Trilogy of Remembering . Paperback edition (in one volume). btb, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-73676-8
  Individual editions:
  • The swallowed music . Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-630-87100-3
  • The black iron . Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-630-87184-4
  • The better times . Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-630-87246-8
• On the edge of everything . Poems. Isele, Eggingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86142-438-3
• In the park . Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-630-87284-1
• Mr. Nabokov's pins . Luchterhand, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-630-87350-3
• The strange stranger . Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87392-3
• Foliage before winter . Poems. Wolfbach Verlag , Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-905910-46-9
• The hidden banks . Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87465-4
• The unstoppable flow. Novel. Luchterhand, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-641-21308-4 (Volume 2 of the autobiography)
• Travel in a wicker chair . Epos. Wolfbach Verlag, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-906929-03-3

Plays

• Gods games . WP: Theater im Spittel, Bremgarten 1987
• Life . Published as a theater manuscript: Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1991

literature

• Peter Arnold: Christian Haller . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 787.
• Markus Bundi: From immediacy to immediacy. An essay on the work of Christian Haller. Edition Isele, Eggingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86142-439-0 .

Web links

• Archive Christian Haller in the archive database HelveticArchives of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Christian Haller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christian Haller's website
• Entry about Christian Haller in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Short biography and information on Christian Haller's work at Literaturport
• Entry about Christian Haller in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Christian Haller on Lesung.net