Claude Cueni

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Claude Cueni (2014)

Claude Cueni (born January 13, 1956 in Basel ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Writing activity

After years of teaching and traveling in Europe, Claude Cueni wrote his first novel in 1980. Since then he has published crime novels , radio plays , theater plays and wrote over 50 screenplays for film and television ( crime scene , Eurocops , Peter Strohm , The clown , Alarm for Cobra 11 ) , which were filmed and is now broadcast in 46 countries.

His main work is the monumental 1500-page trilogy on «Money, Gods and Passion», which u. a. the story of money told in three epochs:

With the first volume of Caesar's Druid , he achieved international success in 1998. The moral painting about Julius Caesar's Gallic War was based on the latest Caesar research and has been translated into numerous languages. The second volume, Das Große Spiel , was published in 2006 and told the adventurous story of the math genius John Law , who lived as a condemned card player and womanizer during the time of the Sun King and who introduced paper money in France. The book has been translated into 13 languages, including Chinese, and was number 1 on the Swiss bestseller list . In 2008 the third and final volume of the money trilogy, Go and kill . The Vatican thriller took place in the present and anticipated the financial crisis . All three volumes are self-contained. In Caesar's Druid , money is made of metal, in The Great Game , money is made of paper, and in Go and Kill , money is virtual.

In February 2013 the novel The Executioner of Paris was published , which describes the life of Charles-Henri Sanson during the French Revolution . In May 2014 his autobiographical novel Script Avenue was published , which deals with the death of his first wife and his subsequent illness of leukemia . In 2015 his historical novel Giants was published , a fiction based on historical facts of the rivalry between Gustave Eiffel and Frédéric Bartholdi , the creator of the Statue of Liberty . Pacific Avenue was released in 2015 . At the same time, he describes Ferdinand Magellan's trip to the Spice Islands in 1521 , but also the narrator's trip to the Philippines in 2015 and the effects of drugs on perception and creativity.

Godless Sun was released in October 2016 . Cueni tells the story of an atheist who traces the development from mythologies to multi-billion dollar religious communities on a reading tour, and who comes into conflict with religious extremists. Rico Bandle-reviewed in the Weltwoche , overrun in the novel "Refugees Europe, Islam is spreading, violence, veiled women and claims to power come with him into the country. The Basel author tells the story of a society that gives way to a totalitarian ideology that mistakenly believes that if one accommodates the fanatics, they would be satisfied and calm. ”He drew parallels with the novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq . However, accusing Cueni of imitation would not be correct.

Cueni is a guest author for the Axis of Good .

Entrepreneur

For 15 years, Cueni was CEO of the "Black Pencil AG" he founded, which developed the first interactive TV telephony format in Europe in 1991 and achieved a global hit in 2001 with the anti-AIDS game "Catch the Sperm".

From 2007 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the listed company «Artificial Life Inc.» for two years. in Hong Kong. In 2006/2007 Cueni was the director of the television games of the Federal Office of Culture .

Cueni is married for the second time.

Works

prose
Plays
  • 1984: Longitudinal study , WP: Basler Theater
  • 1985: U2 or we are the catastrophe , UA: Bühnen der Stadt Bonn
  • 1990: Tie Break for Crazy Horse , WP: Neumarkt Theater Zurich
Radio plays
  • 1982: No hard work , WDR, NDR, SRG
  • 1982: The other country , WDR
  • 1983: The Clone Affair , SRG
  • 1986: Parking garage , SRG
  • 1987: Consultation hours , SRG, WDR
  • 1990: Fax , SRG
  • 1991: The letters from Crazy

Filmography

script
  • 1986: The million dollar find, SRG
  • 1987: The astronaut
  • 1987: Struggle for happiness
  • 1988: Lucas sends his regards
  • 1989: Peter Strohm, The Moonlight Men
  • 1989: Peter Strohm, Strohm's partner
  • 1990: Peter Strohm, Roulette
  • 1993: Peter Strohm, Fair Play
  • 1993: Peter Strohm, Babuschka
  • 1988: Eurocops 1: Dead people don't travel
  • 1988: Eurocops 2: Honey of the Night
  • 1988: Eurocops 3: Falcons on Ice
  • 1989: Eurocops 4: Justice for Elisa
  • 1989: Eurocops 5: Taxi into the afterlife
  • 1990: Eurocops 6: The Rat
  • 1990: Eurocops 7: Desperados
  • 1990: Looking for Salome 1 , Kidnapped
  • 1990: Looking for Salome 2, suspected murder
  • 1990: In Search of Salome 3 The Trail
  • 1990: Looking for Salome 4, Cologne Connection
  • 1990: In Search of Salome 5, The Witness
  • 1990: Looking for Salome 6, decision in Brighton
  • 1992: crime scene, death of an old woman
  • 1995: Alarm for Cobra 11 , pilot film + series Bible
  • 1996: The Clown , pilot film + serial bible
Literary template

literature

documentation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rico Bandle: Dream of an unfree world , Die Weltwoche, September 20, 2016.
  2. ^ Author profile and articles by Claude Cueni on the axis of the good .
personal data
SURNAME Cueni, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland