Fritz H. Dinkelmann

Fritz H. Dinkelmann (born February 14, 1950 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist , writer and theater director.

Life

After completing his school education in Solothurn , Fritz Dinkelmann did an internship as a bookseller . From 1970 to 1973 he trained at the Zurich Acting Academy . He then worked as an actor and director and co-founded the Protheater in Solothurn and the Solothurn Literature Days . Between 1977 and 1984 he was assistant teacher for theater at the canton school in Olten and an editor at Solothurn AZ and at Swiss Radio DRS (SR DRS). After working as a freelance writer and court reporter , from 1987 to 1991 he was federal court correspondent for the Swiss Dispatch Agency (SDA) in Lausanne . From 1992 to 1997 he was a national editor, then until 2003 Germany correspondent and until 2006 Federal Court correspondent of SR DRS. Today he works as a Germany correspondent for several Swiss newspapers and for SR DRS.

Dinkelmann is the author of reports , novels , plays , poems and radio plays . In 1985 and 1987 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . His novel The Sacrifice was preprinted by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Awards

• 1969 Prize winner literary competition of the city of Bocholt (laudation Peter Handke)
• 1974 Promotion Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
• 1983 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
• 2001 Media Prize idée suisse (for a radio report about the Republicans in Stuttgart)

Works

• Because wherever I found tracks there were skid marks . Biberist 1973
• How to discharge lightning . Texts. Lenos , Basel 1973
• According to his own statement . Court reports. Zytglogge , Gümligen 1978; revised: Suhrkamp (st 1436), Frankfurt am Main 1987
• Scenes on the subject of aggression. Nightmares . Lenos, Basel 1979
• Decals . Documentation of a play. Solothurn Art Museum 1983
• Permanent goose bumps . A lyrical diary. Ammann , Zurich 1983
• Das Kino im Kopf ", anthology by Hans Stempel and Martin Ripkens, Arche 1984, text" Monreo kisses Montand "
• A people writes stories, the best short stories from the Swiss Observer's authors' competition, 1984, published by the publishing company Observer AG. Text "four fingers of one hand".
• Post in carriage. Literature from Switzerland. A yearbook . Edited by Heinz F. Schafroth and Egon Ammann , Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-250-01011-1
• The victim . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985; Lenos, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-85787-705-6
• Good evening: This is German television, Luchterhand Collection 1986. Ed. Herbert Hoven, with text "Observations of a voyeur - or when language learned to walk".
• Swiss stories since 1950, Suhrkamp 1990, publisher Christoph Siegrist, text "Der Nachsteiger"
• Switzerland Stories from history after 1945, anthology, Luchterhand Collection, 1991, edited by Rolf Niederhauser and Martin Zingg with texts "Farmer Balthasar in Purgatory" and "How to derive a lightning bolt".
• From one second to the next . Conversations with perpetrators. bfu, Bern 1993
• The Chancellor . Novel. Lenos, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-85787-401-7
• Home Solothurn and a home here and elsewhere . In: Daniel Gaberell (ed.): Solothurner reading book . Kulturbuchverlag Herausgeber.ch, Bern 2014, ISBN 978-3-905939-26-2

Web links

• Publications by and about Fritz H. Dinkelmann in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Fritz H. Dinkelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author page of the Solothurn Board of Trustees for the Promotion of Culture