Hansjörg Betschart

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Hansjörg Betschart (born February 9, 1955 in Basel ) is a Swiss writer and director .

Life

Betschart studied at the Zurich Acting Academy , founded the Basel Youth Theater (now the Basel Young Theater) and worked as a director in Sweden (Folkteatern, Gothenburg), Germany ( Theater Konstanz , Staatstheater Mannheim, Münchner Kammerspiele (Theater der Jugend), Staatstheater Darmstadt , Theater Bremen , Hessisches Landestheater Theater Marburg, Staatstheater Hannover ), Switzerland ( Schauspielhaus Zürich , Basler Theater, Theater Rigiblick , Zürich) Austria ( Burgtheater Wien ), Kyrgyzstan (Teatr Krupskaja (Bischpek)) and Mexico City , (Teatro del Ciudad).

He also writes novels for children and young people and was awarded the LUCHS children's book prize in 1987 . Betschart works as a director and mainly stages world premieres and premieres at theaters in German-speaking countries. He is a lecturer for direction and dramaturgy at the Zurich University of the Arts as well as responsible for role studies at the European Film Actor School in Zurich. He has also translated works by Swedish dramatists into German (including Henning Mankell and Lars Norén ).

Works

  • Soheila or A Glass Sky (1993), children's novel
  • x = love or forever lasts the longest (1999), youth novel
  • Unruh (2002), novel

Filmography (selection)

Translations (selection)

August Strindberg (Fraulein Julie, Der Vater, Marodöre, etc.)

Henning Mankel (time in the dark, antelopes, Miles or the pendulum clock from Montreux, the unscrupulous murderer Hasse Karlsson reveals the terrible truth of how the woman died over the railway bridge, the chronicler of the winds, an autumn evening before the silence, etc.)

And other authors like: Lars Noren , Lisa Langseth, Ulf Stark etc.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Betschart, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel