Gertrud Leutenegger
Gertrud Leutenegger (born December 7, 1948 in Schwyz ) is a Swiss German-language writer .
Life
Gertrud Leutenegger grew up in Schwyz, but later also lived in French and Italian-speaking Switzerland. She studied directing at the Zurich Acting Academy and in 1978 worked as assistant director Jürgen Flimms at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus . After numerous trips and stays in Florence and Berlin , the author lived in Japan for a long time. Today Leutenegger lives in Zurich. In 2010 she was appointed to the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.
Awards
- 1978 Prize of the Klagenfurt jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- 1979 Droste Prize
- 1985 Guest Prize from the Lucerne Literature Fund
- 1986 Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1988 Literary gift of honor from the city of Zurich
- 1993 Award of recognition from the Lucerne Marianne and Curt Dienemann Foundation
- 1999 Central Switzerland Culture Prize
- 2009 Schiller Prize from Zürcher Kantonalbank for Matutin
- 2014 shortlist for the German Book Prize with Panischer Frühling
- 2014 Roswitha Prize of the City of Bad Gandersheim
Works
- Eve . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1975 (most recently: Swiss Library , Volume 7, Zurich 2006).
- Nineveh . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-518-03536-3 .
- Goodbye Have a good trip . A dramatic poem (= Edition Suhrkamp , Volume 1), Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-11001-2 .
- Like in Solomon's garden . Poems. Eremiten-Presse , Düsseldorf 1981.
- Governor . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1981.
- Come on board . Dramatic poem. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1983.
- Continent . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1985.
- The lost monument . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1985 (= edition suhrkamp 1315).
- Medusa . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1988.
- Acheron . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
- Sphere Sound . Dramatic poem. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1999.
- Pomona . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41603-0 .
- Immediately after the Gotthard comes the Milan Cathedral . Stories and other prose. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-41834-3 .
- Matutin . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-42029-4 .
- Panic spring . Novel. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42421-6 .
- The piano on the Schillerstein . Prose. Nimbus, Wädenswil, 2017, ISBN 978-3-03850-035-3 .
literature
- Esther Ackermann : Gertrud Leutenegger . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1101.
- Rike Felka: The written picture. About Gertrud Leutenegger . Passagen, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85165-212-6 .
- Vesna Kondrič Horvat: Tracing your own utopia: on the prose of German-speaking authors in Switzerland between 1970 and 1990, shown in the work of Gertrud Leutenegger and Hanna Johansen . Lang, Bern a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-906768-97-X .
- Diana Leeder: Momentary Peace. An examination of the Catholic references in the works of Gertrud Leutenegger (= texts and studies on the literature of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume 11). Lang, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-03911-643-0 .
- Eve Pormeister: Cross-border women. Gertrud Leutenegger and the writing nun Silja Walter from Switzerland . Atelier SAXA - words and pictures, Berlin 2010, 12-13. ISBN 978-3-939060-26-0
- Silvia Henke Dean: "Restlessness of the longed-for horizon". Narrative of the South in the prose of Gertrud Leutenegger . In: looking south. Literary images of Italy from German-speaking Switzerland. Swiss texts , edited and with an introduction by Corinna Jäger-Trees and Hubert Thüring; editorial assistance: Louanne Burkhardt. Zurich: Chronos, 2019. pp. 273 - 286.
Web links
- Publications by and about Gertrud Leutenegger in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Gertrud Leutenegger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Gertrud Leutenegger in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
- Reading with Gertrud Leutenegger to listen to on Dichterlesen.net
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leutenegger, Gertrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwyz |