Hansjörg Schertenleib

Hansjörg Schertenleib 2010 in Frankfurt am Main

Hansjörg Schertenleib (born November 4, 1957 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer and translator .

Life

Hansjörg Schertenleib grew up in Zurich. From 1974 to 1978 he trained as a typesetter and typographer . From 1975 to 1980 he attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts . He stayed for a long time in Norway , Denmark , Vienna and London . He has been a freelance writer since 1981. In the early 1980s he worked as a film and music critic for various magazines. 1992/1993 he worked as a resident author at the Theater Basel . In 1996 he emigrated to Donegal , Ireland and decided to take Irish citizenship . From 2005 to 2015 he lived in Ireland and temporarily in Switzerland; since then he has been commuting between Suhr and the US east coast. Schertenleib is the author of prose works , which are praised by the critics for their cool, factual language, of poetry , plays and radio plays . Constant themes in his work are fleeing the confines of his Swiss homeland and being on the move.

Schertenleib's texts are available as translations into Swiss German, French, English, Dutch and Bulgarian.

Awards

1981: Ascona Literature Prize
1983: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
1984: Award of the Canton of Aargau
1985: Promotion Prize for the Leonce and Lena Prize
1988: Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
1989: Hermann Ganz Prize
1991: Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
1995: Kranichstein Literature Prize
1996: Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
1998: City clerk grant in Minden
1999: Working year of the Pro Helvetia Foundation

2001: Honorary gift from the City of Zurich

2003: ndl literature prize

2005: Working year of the Pro Helvetia Foundation

2006: Radio play award from the Radio Basel Foundation for love stuff

2007: Max Kade Writer in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Boston

2009: Writer-in-Residence in Cape Town

Works

Autograph

Poems, stories, novels

Three volumes of poetry in one. (With Jürgen Stelling and Manfred Züfle ). Zurich 1981.
Grip. Three stories. Benziger, Zurich a. a. 1982.
- French: Grip. Récits. Campiche, Yvonand 1993, ISBN 2-88241-038-7 .
The holiday landscape. Novel. Benziger, Zurich a. a. 1983.
The procession of men. Five stories. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-462-01691-1 .
The siblings. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-596-12193-0 .
The mute guest. Poems. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-462-01974-0 .
The antiquarian. Narrative. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02132-X .
The Signora's room. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, ISBN 978-3-7466-2106-7 .
November. Rust. Poems. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997, ISBN 978-3-462-02613-9 .
Time palace. Novel for teenagers. Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-551-58034-4 .
- Dutch by Marie-Louise van As: Tijdgrens. Uitgeverij Holland, Haarlem 2000, ISBN 90-251-0846-6 .
The nameless. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-7466-1853-1 .
- French by Marie-Claude Auger: Les sans-noms. Chambon, Nîmes 2003, ISBN 2-87711-248-9 .
- Bulgarian by Diana Dimanova: Bezimennite. Delakort, Sofia 2003.
Shadow paradise. Novel for teenagers. Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-551-58067-2 .
From dog to dog. Stories from the pharmacist's case. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-7466-1912-5 .
- Bulgarian by Diana Dimanova: Ot kuče na kuče: istorijki ot kufara na antekarja. Delakort, Sofia 2004, ISBN 954-8415-71-2 .
The paper king. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-351-02980-7 .
- Bulgarian by Diana Dimanova: Chartienijat kral. Delakort, Sofia 2004, ISBN 954-8415-68-2 .
The lucky guy. Novella. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-351-03017-9 .
- English by David Dollenmayer: A happy man. Melville House Publishers, Brooklyn New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-933633-81-7 .
Diving station. Youth novel. Kyrene, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-15664-1 .
The rain orchestra. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-03237-1 .
Cowboy summer. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-351-03321-7 .
Night swimmer. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-7466-2822-6 .
Forest of glass. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-351-03503-7 .
Clearing, beach. Poems from 35 years . Book reading edition, Hitzkirch 2015, ISBN 978-3-9524082-3-0 .
Jawaka. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03605-8 .
The lobster tongs . Detective novel. Kampa Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978 3 311 12004 9 .
Palace of Silence . Narrative. Kampa Verlag, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978 3 311 21013 9 .

Stage works

Cloth man and heart. 1988 ( premiere : Stadttheater Luzern).
Ultima Thule.
Shields. Stage adaptation of the novel by Hermann Burger . Frankfurt am Main 1992 (premiere: Theater Basel).
Ravenland. Frankfurt am Main 1993. (Premiere: Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Munich).
Mars. Based on the book of the same name by Fritz Zorn . 1993. (Premiere: Theater Basel).
Bacon. Libretto for the dance theater by Ismael Ivo . 1994. (Premiere: Theaterhaus Stuttgart).
Vault. Monologue. Frankfurt am Main 1996. (Premiere: Stadttheater St.Gallen)
The hole . Frankfurt am Main 1996.
Dungeon. (WP: In Magdeburg).
Radio Kashmir. Comedy. Frankfurt am Main 2003 (WP: Theater Bremen)
Swans. Based on texts by Joseph Roth . (WP: Klibühni Chur).
Greenland , play. 2010. (Premiere: Phönix-Theater 81, Steckborn).

Editing

Literature in Switzerland (with Martin R. Dean ). Vienna 1987.
Viennese waltz . Zurich 2008.

Translations

Avi : Countdown in the basement . Hamburg 2001.
Kenneth Cook : Awakening in Fear . Munich 2006.
John Knowles : Another Peace . Hamburg 2001.
Eoin McNamee : Blue tango . Munich 2003.
Sam Shepard : eyes for Consuela . Frankfurt am Main 1999.
Sam Shepard: The Last Days of Henry Moss . Frankfurt am Main 2002.
Chris Van Allsburg : The polar express . Hamburg 2001.

Individual evidence

↑ Film adaptation of the novel The Nameless : The Lost. Director: Christian Görlitz . 2006.
↑ Contained in: Uwe B. Carstensen and Stefanie von Lieven (eds.): Theater Theater. Current pieces 5. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
↑ Contained in: Uwe B. Carstensen and Stefanie von Lieven (eds.): Theater Theater. Current pieces 12. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-596-15664-1 .

literature

Benita Cantieni : Swiss writer personally . Huber, Frauenfeld 1983, ISBN 3-7193-0883-9 , pp. 239-253.
Brigitte Marschall: Hansjörg Schertenleib . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1602.

Web links

Literature by and about Hansjörg Schertenleib in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about Hansjörg Schertenleib in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Entry about Hansjörg Schertenleib in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
Short biography and reviews of works by Hansjörg Schertenleib at perlentaucher.de
Hansjörg Schertenleib's website
Hansjörg Schertenleib: love stuff. Radio play. (2005) On the website of Schweizer Radio DRS 1
Conversation with the author about cowboy summer on Swiss radio DRS 2 (2010)

personal data
SURNAME	Schertenleib, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 4th 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich

[1] Film adaptation of the novel The Nameless : The Lost. Director: Christian Görlitz . 2006.

[2] Contained in: Uwe B. Carstensen and Stefanie von Lieven (eds.): Theater Theater. Current pieces 5. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995.

[3] Contained in: Uwe B. Carstensen and Stefanie von Lieven (eds.): Theater Theater. Current pieces 12. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-596-15664-1 .