Isolde Schaad

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Isolde Schaad (born October 9, 1944 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss journalist and writer .

Life

Isolde Schaad, born in Schaffhausen in 1944 as the daughter of the painter Werner Schaad, is one of the well-known Swiss authors of the 1968 generation . She studied art history , ethnology and journalism at the universities of Zurich and Cambridge .

Schaad worked as the arts editor for Weltwoche until she decided to go freelance in 1974. After study trips to the Near and Middle East, Africa and the USA, she settled in 1982 as a freelance writer and journalist in Zurich. She then wrote her journalistic texts especially for the weekly newspaper (WOZ) .

Her specialty is the critical observation of society, which she devotes to the near and distant environment. In 1984 her first work, Knowhow, appeared on Kilimanjaro . In 1997, Mein Text so blau was chosen as “Book of the Year” by the Swiss Schiller Foundation. Her most recent novel Robinson and Julia (2010) is about old and new gender roles .

Isolde Schaad's archive is located in the Swiss Literature Archive in Bern .

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Works

Schaad has published numerous columns, essays and reviews. The following works have been published in book form:

  • Werner Schaad or How an artist sets up in the provinces (with Tina Grütter, Klaus Unger). Meili, Schaffhausen 1980
  • Know-how on Kilimanjaro. Forms of traffic and tribal behavior of Swiss people in East Africa. A reading . Limmat, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-85791-086-0
  • The Zurich Constipation. Texts from the extreme middle of prosperity . Limmat, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-85791-115-8
  • Kiss goodbye. Speech images and stories about public mental hygiene . Limmat, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85791-144-1
  • Body and sofa. Love stories from the purchasing power class . Limmat, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85791-220-0
  • Grüezi, Salü, Ciao . Vontobelstiftung, Zurich 1997
  • My text so blue. The sound of literature. Essays, stories and dramas from the crime scene . Limmat, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-85791-282-0
  • It wasn't anyone . Novel. Limmat, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-85791-367-3
  • From the one. Literature and gender. Eleven portraits from the danger zone . Limmat, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85791-465-3
  • This side of good and bad . Picture stories by Gerda Tobler. Edition Howeg, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85736-236-7
  • Robinson and Julia. ... and no love death . Novel. Limmat, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85791-600-7
  • At the equator. The extension of the belt into unexplored areas . Stories. Limmat, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85791-730-1
  • Giacometti is limping. Five routes, three stops . Stories. Limmat, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85791-870-4

Editing

Theatrical performances

  • Each for himself , premier: Zurich / Schaffhausen 1992
  • Aurora's estate , WP: St.Gallen 1994
  • Do we still need a democracy? 3 sketches, premiere: Schauspielhaus Zürich 1998
  • Grinning behind the office table , WP: Zurich 1999
  • Georg goes to heaven. A lesson on normal deportation practice , WP: Zurich 2001

TV / film / video

  • Thinkers . Documentary, Südwestfunk 1992
  • Hanny Fries . Video, Südwestfunk 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (April 27, 2014) .
personal data
SURNAME Schaad, Isolde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liechtenstein, Rosa (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen