Christine Rinderknecht

Christine Rinderknecht (born December 5, 1954 in Nussbaumen near Baden AG ) is a Swiss author .

Life

Christine Rinderknecht studied German , Romance studies and literary criticism in Zurich , Paris and Berlin . She has worked as a dramaturge at the theater and has been realizing her own theater and film projects under the Gub Company label since 1989 . Her first volume of short stories was published in 1994 by Zytglogge Verlag , and in 2002 by Pendo Verlag the first of two novels to date . In 2008 she was Writer in Residence at the Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell University . She lives in Zurich.

Works

Books

• Quarry stone and brick . Stories. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1994
• A spoon in the air . Novel. Pendo, Zurich 2002
• Lilli . Novel. Pendo, Munich 2005

Plays

• I'll bet you're breaking your wing , 1990 (commissioned work on the subject of addiction, with TV recording)
• Bruchstein , 1991 (On the subject of incest)
• The dowry , 1993
• Whim of nature . Free Theater MARIA, Bern 1999
• Petit Bodiel (based on a story by Amadou Hampâté Bâ ), Baden 2001
• GOLD - A journey into the interior of the earth (based on the story Kaïdara by Amadou Hampâté Bâ), Aarau 2004
• Heroes of Work (with Tobias Pingler), 2006
• Livia, 13 , 2007
• multiple option_14 , 2009
• stress factor_15 , 2012

literature

• Esther Ackermann: Christine Rinderknecht . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1499.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christine Rinderknecht in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Christine Rinderknecht in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• GUBCOMPANY
• The twenty-sixth December two thousand and four: Natural disasters in literature , lecture at Cornell University (PDF; 422 kB)