Claudia Storz

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Claudia Storz (born June 13, 1948 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer .

Claudia Storz December 2009

After graduating from high school in Aarau , she studied English , German and art history at the University of Zurich and the University of Oxford . She received her PhD with a dissertation on word games on London Underground posters.

From 1973 to 1980 she worked as an English teacher at the old canton school in Aarau . Since then she has worked as a freelance writer and lives in Aarau.

Works

Books

  • Jessica with design flaws . Novel. Benziger , Zurich 1977
  • Looking for Lady Gregory . Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1981
  • The whales come ashore . Novel. Nagel & Kimche Verlag , Zurich 1984
  • Story with three names . Stories. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1986
  • The ship . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1989
  • Noah's daughter . Libretto for an oratorio. With 21 woodcuts by Robert Wyss. Rex, Lucerne 1990
  • Burgers childhoods. An approach to Hermann Burger . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1996
  • Quince with salt . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1999
  • Sophie Haemmerli-Marti . Ebigs For . Selected works with biography in words and pictures. Edited by Claudia Storz u. a. Baden 2003, ISBN 3-85545-867-7
  • Quarter moon as light as a feather. Poems and miniatures from half a life . eFeF, Wettingen 2005
  • Boats for stowaways , poems and notes, eFeF, Wettingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-905561-92-0
  • Bulky Life , Erzählungen.eFeF, Wettingen, 2017, ISBN 9783906199115

Plays

  • Immaculata . Premiere: Aarau 1985
  • Noah's daughter . Oratorio (libretto). Premiere: Aarau 1986
  • The great woman Agnes . WP: Königsfelden 1991
  • Meyer's tunnel . Premiere: Aarau 1991
  • Zahnume luteri Liebi (a theatrical portrait of Sophie Haemmerli-Marti ). Premiere: Tuchlaube Theater Aarau 2003

Awards

  • 1978 Rauris Literature Prize of the State of Salzburg
  • 1981 Work Prize from the Canton of Solothurn
  • 1981 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
  • 1984 working year for the Canton of Zurich
  • 1986 contribution from the Canton of Aargau
  • 1987 Contribution to the Pro Helvetia Foundation
  • 1991 Work contribution from the Canton of Solothurn
  • 1999 Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich for quinces with salt
  • 2001 Three-part contribution from the Pro Helvetia Foundation
  • 2002 Literature Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
  • 2005 UBS literary prize for a feather-light quarter moon

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personal data
SURNAME Storz, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich