Hansjörg Schneider (playwright)

Hansjörg Schneider (born March 27, 1938 in Aarau ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Schneider grew up in Zofingen and studied German, history and psychology at the University of Basel . He received his doctorate in 1966 and initially worked as a teacher and journalist and as an assistant director at the Basel Theater . Schneider has written numerous plays as well as novels and short stories . His plays Sennentuntschi and Der liebe Augustin were adapted to operas (composition: Jost Meier )

In the 1990s, Schneider became known to a wider audience with his Kommissär Hunkeler crime novels. The figure of the Basel detective, Hunkeler, has autobiographical traits: Hunkeler and Schneider were born in Aarau and now live in the Basel Ring Quarter, where they visit the same local bars. They also share their left-wing liberal sentiments and a pronounced tendency to observe and describe closely. Unlike Hunkeler, Schneider has been widowed since 1997.

Prices

• 1976: Prize of the Welti Foundation for the drama for: The inventor
• 1977: AAD scholarship Berlin
• 1986: Aargau Literature Prize and Literature Prize of the City of Basel
• 1998: Fantastic Prize from the city of Wetzlar
• 2003: Prize for total works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 2005: Friedrich Glauser Prize for: Hunkeler does things

Works

Prose works

• Leköb . Stories. Divers, Stuttgart 1970
• The postcard . Narrative. Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1972
• The slumber mother. The life and views of an old woman recorded by HS Gute Schriften , Basel 1973
• The boy . Novel. Lenos Verlag (Litprint 68), Basel 1976
• Dear Leo . Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1980
• Another country . Stories. Ammann Verlag , Zurich 1982
• Desert wind. Notes November 1982 - April 1983 . Limmat Verlag , Zurich 1984
• Returning to a foreign country . Reports. Limmat, Zurich 1986
• The catfish . Novel. Nagel & Kimche , Zurich 1988
• The watermark . Novel. Ammann, Zurich 1997
• Night book for Astrid. About love, about dying, about death and the sadness of having lost a loved one . Ammann, Zurich 2000
• In the café and on the street . Stories. Ammann, Zurich 2002
• Leköb and Distra. A life and a love story . Ammann, Zurich 2009
• Hippos under the house. Memories, dreams . Diogenes Verlag , Zurich 2012
• Child of the Aare . Autobiography. Diogenes, Zurich 2018

Commissioner-Hunkeler series

The first seven volumes were first published as hardcover by Ammann Verlag, then as paperback by Bastei-Lübbe . Diogenes Verlag has been publishing Schneider's works since 2010. Six Hunkeler novels were filmed on Swiss television with Mathias Gnädinger in the title role.

• Silberkiesel , 1993 (filmed in 2010 as Silberkiesel - Hunkeler resigns )
• Flattermann , 1995
• The couple in the boat , 1999 (filmed in 2004)
• Death of a Doctor , 2001 (filmed in 2004)
• Hunkeler does things , 2004 (filmed in 2007)
• Hunkeler and the case of Livius , 2007 (filmed in 2009)
• Hunkeler and the golden hand , 2008
• Hunkeler and the eyes of Oedipus , 2010 (made into a film in 2012)
• Hunkeler's Secret , 2015
• Hunkeler in the wild , 2020

Plays

• Robinson learns to dance . A piece for children. In: 3mal Kindertheater , Volume 5. Verlag der Autor , Frankfurt am Main 1975, pp. 67-105
• Pieces 1: Sennentuntschi . The inventor. Sagittarius Tell . Night machine, Basel 1980
• Dear Augustine . Acting in six pictures. Ammann, Zurich 1983
• Pieces 2: bread and wine. The fire in Uster. The calfskin . Night machine, Basel 1985
• The Bremen Town Musicians under the bridge . In: Theater workshop for young people and children , ed. by Ruth Schneider and Paul Schorno . Lenos, Basel 1985, pp. 283-329
• The black spider . Loosely based on the story by Jeremias Gotthelf . Edition Erpf bei Neptun, Kreuzlingen 1988
• The cold heart . Fairy tale, freely based on the story by Wilhelm Hauff . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1994
• The errant . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1995
• The flag of the seven upright ones . Loosely based on the story by Gottfried Keller . Theater manuscript, Landschaftstheater Ballenberg 1999
• Erwin and Philomene . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 2000
• Loosli's children . Premiere: Stadttheater Bern, April 29, 2012

libretto

• The black spider . Musical-dramatic narrative (opera). Music (1982): Rudolf Kelterborn . Premiere (as television opera) Zurich 1984

Varia

• Stories and poems . Self-published, Binningen 1965
• Jakob van Hoddis : a contribution to the exploration of Expressionism (= Basler Studies on German Language and Literature , Issue 35) Francke, Bern 1967, DNB 364579927 (Dissertation Uni Basel, Philosophical Faculty, 1966, 107 pages, DNB 571527248 ).

literature

• Brigitte Marschall: Hansjörg Schneider . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1622 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hansjörg Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Hansjörg Schneider in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Biogram of the Ammann Verlag
• “I'm still angry with my father today. Relentless » . An interview with the author in the Berner Zeitung on April 23, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Nachtbuch für Astrid ( reading sample ).