Hanspeter Gschwend

Hanspeter Gschwend (born March 28, 1945 in Biel ) is a Swiss writer and radio journalist .

He studied history and German in Bern and Vienna . From 1972 to 1978 he was planning secretary for an Aargau university for educational sciences. Until 2008 he was an editor, then a freelancer for Swiss Radio DRS for politics, society, culture and topicality in Italian-speaking Switzerland . Since 2014 the author of dramatic, narrative and essayistic texts, non-fiction books and biographies has concentrated on literary work.

Awards

• 1972: Zurich Radio Prize for field gray discs
• 1979: Radio Play Prize of the Canton of Bern
• 1992: Radio Play Prize from the Radio Basel Foundation for Blank
• 1995: Prix ​​Suisse for Code Execute
• 1997: Prix ​​Europa for The Olympic Dealer as the best European radio play in 1997
• 2000: Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation (for all radio plays)

Works

Radio plays

• Essen DRS , SWF 1970
• Field gray panes DRS / Zytglogge Verlag Bern , Ex Libris Audiothek 1970, TV version DRS 1976
• In the park DRS 1974
• Joggeli, chasch ou rytte? DRS 1978
• From the rustling of the leaves on the way to the source and from the limit of love, of fear DRS 1989
• Blank - A radio play from the war DRS, RSR [French] 1991
• Code-Execute DRS 1994, RSR [French] 1995; printed and CD in: Ach und Och, the Swiss radio play book, Zurich 1998
• The DRS massif in 1995
• Schwanenweiss DRS 1997
• The Olympic dealer DRS, HR , SFB , ORF u. a .; CD radio kiosk Schweizer Radio DRS 1997
• Rhythm disorder DRS 1999
• The ghostwriter DRS 2001
• Room maintenance station DRS 2003
• Marmotta , short radio play on Switzerland in the First World War, DRS and EBU 2014
• Meaning of life - three letters! Voiced by Doris Wolters, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart and Ueli Jäggi . Music by Lucas Niggli Christoph. Merian Verlag, 2015

Television games

• Regular guests at Alfons DRS 1976
• Christmas , scenes for the Telearena DRS 1979
• Motel , 6 episodes of a TV game series DRS 1984

Theater works

• Karl May or a life on the stake at the Solothurn workshop theater 1978
• Alfred Escher or Long Live the Republic! Theater for the Canton of Zurich 1979
• The revolution is dead - long live the war! City Theater Biel-Solothurn 1983
• Dreams of a different life - Sogni di un altra vita (bilingual), open-air theater play Monte Verità Ascona 2016

Books

• Dimitri - the clown in me. Autobiography with a foreign pen , Benteli Verlag, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-7165-1318-0
• Echo of time - world events on the radio , Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-03823-246-9
• Collected Moments - The Sculptor Rolf Brem , Benteli Verlag, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-7165-1447-0
• Strike in Bellinzona - a canton revolted , Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-7193-1502-3
• Ice rays , Christmas stories with drawings by Schang Hutter, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7193-1529-0
• Dimitri - The world of the clown, a total work of art , Benteli Verlag, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7165-1641-6
• Alice wonders , Chronos Verlag, Zurich and Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0340-1093-1
• Schang Hutter, Space for Vulnerability , Till Schaap Edition, Bern 2014, ISBN 978-3-03828-021-7
• Aufbruch, The Officina, Ticino and the Gotthard Railway , NZZ Libro, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03810-105-5

literature

• Dietrich Seybold: Hanspeter Gschwend . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 763.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanspeter Gschwend in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Hanspeter Gschwend in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland