Eva Brunner (author)

Eva Brunner (born November 26, 1952 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss author of plays and radio plays as well as a translator and photographer .

Life & work

After graduating from high school, Eva Brunner studied at the American College of Rome Communications (film & photography), and also completed a translation course (English-German and Italian-German). From 1985 she was part of the in-house authorship of the Stadttheater Luzern . In 1987 she accepted the residency grant for “Young German-Speaking Authors” from the Berlin Senate and the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) and has lived in Berlin ever since . Brunner is a member of the AdS (authors in Switzerland). Since 2004 increased attention to photography. From 2007 to 2011 Arno Fischer's master class student at the Ostkreuz School for Photography and Design in Berlin. She has been married to the writer and translator Bernhard Kempen since the end of 2016 .

Awards / grants

• 1987: Residence grant “Young German-speaking authors” from the LCB.
• 1988: Scholarship for Berlin writers.
• 1997: Award for radio play Radio DRS (Switzerland).
• 1997: Alfred Döblin grant from the Berlin Academy of the Arts .
• 2004: Landis & Gyr Cultural Foundation.
• 2005: Atelier guest in Willisau's town mill .
• 2008: Prix ​​Suisse 2008 - Best Swiss radio play for "Blauensee".

Photo exhibitions

• 2005: Stadtmühle Willisau , Switzerland.
• 2006: El Local, Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.
• 2007: Can Ginebreda, Catalonia, Spain.
• 2008: Bookstore Galerie Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland.
• 2009: Galerie Das Ding, Lucerne, Switzerland.
• 2009: Casa de Cultura Les Bernardes, Salt, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
• 2009: A Book About Death group exhibition curated by Matthew Rose, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery New York City, USA.
• 2010: Um livro sobre a morte (group exhibition) Museu Brasileiro da Escultura São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2010: exp12 / exposure twelve twelve exposures (group exhibition) Berlin.
• 2010: Hirslanden bookstore, Zurich, Switzerland.
• 2010: Paulusgalerie Albstadt-Tailfingen, Germany.
• 2011: Galerie exp12 / exposure twelve "Side Views" Berlin.
• 2011: 5THCH "Art in Private Spaces" with Mike Hentz and Adam Tellmeister, Berlin.
• 2011: Festival Voies Off Arles, France.
• 2016: Hirslanden bookstore, Zurich, Switzerland.
• 2016: As part of the 7th European Month of Photography Berlin in Boulevard Berlin.

List of works for plays

• 1982: K. Allotropos . World premiere Teatro dell'Orologio, Rome.
• 1984: Cold . World premiere in Italian version Teatro in Trasevere, Rome.
• 1985: Cold . World premiere German version DEA mobiles studio Stadttheater Luzern.
• 1985: Granite (Goethe deep in Switzerland) . World premiere of the Lucerne City Theater.
• 1988: No way astray . World première of the Broken Window Berlin theater.
• 1992: Crocodile Tears (play for children).
• 1994: everything will be fine . World premiere of Lucerne Minstrels.
• 2016: Little Gatsby - a Lucerne grounding. with Brigitte Amrein. Fabulous Horw.

List of works for radio plays / radio / audio book / documentary film

• 1988: Spirit carried the stones, I carried them alone ... Radio story series “Passagen”, Sender Free Berlin (SFB).
• 1989: ruler and ruler . Radio story series “Passagen” SFB.
• 1991: From the Swiss embassy and other wonders of Helvetia . Radio story series "Passagen" SFB.
• 1997: Frieda Flachmann . Radio play Swiss Radio DRS 1.
• 1999: In the chatty paradise . Radio story Radio Kultur SFB.
• 2004: Drifting in the pool ... radio play.
• 2007: Blauensee radio play Swiss Radio DRS 1.
• 2007: Blauensee audio book published by Christoph Merian Verlag . ISBN 978-3-85616-342-6 .
• 2012: Collaboration on the documentary "Der Krösus von Luzern" by Sören Senn .
• 2014: Christoph Güsken : Quotenkiller - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (radio play - DKultur)
• 2014: Kathrin Röggla : War of Noise - Director: Leopold von Verschuer (radio play - BR)

Contribution to books

• Dietger Pforte (Ed.): Jäh aus: Prosa . With contributions by Inge Krupp, Thomas Meinecke , Hubert Winkels , Werner Söllner and Eva Brunner. Berlin: Literarisches Colloquium, 1987 (LCB Edition 91). ISBN 3-926178-04-3 .

Translations

• Shirley Jackson: We have always lived in the castle. Festa Verlag , Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-86552-709-7 .
• Shirley Jackson: Haunted Hill House. Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-86552-707-3 .
• Stella Leonetti: Night Thoughts in Candy Blue. S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1987.
• Antonio Gavino Sanna: April Fool's Day. Theaterstückverlag, Munich 1996.
• Mario Pavone: Nijinsky. Felix Bloch Erben, Berlin 2000.
• Chuck Palahniuk: Bait. Black stories to color in. Festa Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-86552-632-8 .

literature

• Esther Ackermann: Eva Brunner . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 280.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Brunner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eva Brunner's website
• Eva Brunner's online gallery at Kunstbar