Hansjörg Schneider (playwright)

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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

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 ).

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Individual evidence

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