Jürg Brändli
Jürg Brändli (born November 16, 1971 in Wald ) is a Swiss writer , screenwriter and journalist .
Life
His works include the Swiss films Nacht der Gaukler (1996) and Grounding - The Last Days of Swissair (2006), as well as the television film Spital in Angst (2001), directed by Michael Steiner. His television play Havarie (2006) was directed by Xavier Koller . Til Schweiger produced the movie On Heart and Kidneys (2001) . Brändli is the author of several radio plays for Swiss radio DRS . He has published short stories as well as the novels Phantomschmerz (2000), Der Aufstand (2007), Götterfunke - The story of a perpetrator (2013), Schwarzes Erbe (2016) and Der Sklave (2019), published by Münster Verlag Basel.
Before he became self-employed as an author in the mid-1990s, Brändli volunteered as a journalist at the Zürichsee-Zeitung in Stäfa ZH and was employed as the BR editor in charge of the “Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich” from 1992 to 1995.
Brändli lives and works in Wald in the Zurich Oberland.
Filmography
- 1996: Night of the jugglers
- 1996: a bad trip
- 2001: Put through its paces
- 2001: Hospital in fear
- 2006: average
- 2006: Grounding - The last days of Swissair
Web links
- Jürg Brändli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jürg Brändli at filmportal.de
- Literature by and about Jürg Brändli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Jürg Brändli in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brändli, Juerg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer, screenwriter and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wald ZH , Switzerland |