Heidy Gasser

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Heidy Gasser (born June 12, 1957 in Sarnen ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Heidy Gasser attended secondary school, completed training as a medical practice assistant and obtained a German diploma from the Chamber of Commerce. She lived in the canton of Zug for 20 years , where she worked in a doctor's office. Since 2004 she has lived in Lungern again, where she grew up.

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Gasser mainly writes biographically inspired stories, columns and portraits for various newspapers and for Radio SRF (formerly Radio DRS), e.g. B. for the series «Dorfplatz». She also writes poems, short stories and fairy tales in High German and in the dialect of her home village Lungern .

Publications (selection)

  • Sour soup. Biographical story, Orte-Verlag, Zelg 1994, ISBN 3-85830-073-X .
  • with Christof Hirtler (photographs), Marbeth Reif, Sabi Zurgilgen , Peter Ming, Hanspeter Niederberger (texts): Images of people. Portraits of Obwalden residents. Landenberg Verlag, Sarnen 1992.
  • The maiden. As a stranger in Switzerland. Biographical story, Orte-Verlag, Zelg 1995, 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 978-3-85830-076-8 .
  • I don't wear black skirts. Orte-Verlag, Zelg 1997, ISBN 978-3-85830-086-7 .
  • with Romano Cuonz : Once in Obwalden. Photographs tell stories. Brunner, Kriens 1999.
  • People are worlds. Portraits, Zuger Neujahrsblatt 2000, Zug 1999.
  • Live on a piece of land. Publisher M. Wallimann, Alpnach 2000.
  • with Werner Bucher , Viviane Egli and Daniele Muscionico: Z'frede see. Chapf-Köbi, one of the last mountain people. Orte-Verlag, Zelg 2002, ISBN 3-85830-119-1 .
  • A bank robbery. Banking history 3/11, Zug 2003.
  • The fifth room. Twelve mysterious stories, Brunner, Kriens 2003.
  • Mother Helvetia. Brunner, Kriens 2004, ISBN 978-3-90519-878-2 .
  • with Werner Bucher, Viviane Egli and Daniele Muscionico: Wherever there is a small room, I am dehaime. About the damsel from the «Yberg». Orte-Verlag, Zelg 2004, ISBN 3-85830-127-2 .
  • High voltage. Life for the Oberhasli power plants. Brunner Medien, Edition Magma, Kriens 2005, ISBN 978-3037270011 .
  • Victorinox - the knife makers from Ibach. 3rd volume in the book series "Central Switzerland on the way to today" by the Albert Koechlin Foundation, 2009, ISBN 978-3-905446-07-4 .
  • with Elisabeth Blunschy-Steiner : A life for more social justice. Albert Koechlin Foundation AKS, Lucerne 2010, ISBN 978-3-905446-09-8 .
  • The temptress. bildfluss-Verlag, Altdorf 2019, ISBN 978-3-9524501-4-7 .

Awards

In 2002 Gasser received the Central Switzerland Audience Award for Literature . She also received the Sarnafil Culture Prize and sponsorship awards from the Canton of Obwalden and the Canton of Zug.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vocabulary from Lungern , on the website of Swiss radio and television , accessed on August 26, 2018
  2. ↑ «Lungerners are proud of their dialect». In: Neue Obwaldner Zeitung , July 15, 2015, p. 21.
  3. ^ Cover text of the book ( Memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Entry about Heidy Gasser in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Gasser, Heidy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnen