Katja Brunner

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Katja Brunner (* 1991 in Zurich ) is a Swiss author .

Life

Katja Brunner is the daughter of the Chief Public Prosecutor Andreas Brunner . She attended the Rämibühl literary school in Zurich until she graduated in 2009 and studied literary writing at the Swiss Institute for Literature in Biel (a department at the Bern University of the Arts ) and scenic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts .

At the age of 18 she wrote the play “Von den Beinen zu Kurz” about sexual abuse from the perspective of the victim, which premiered on March 31, 2012 at the Theater an der Winkelwiese as part of the “Dramenprozessor” author's project at the Zurich Theater an der Winkelwiese has been. The German premiere followed on January 5, 2013 at the State Theater in Hanover. The Hanoverian production became the 2013 Mülheim theater festival «Pieces. Mülheimer Theatertage » , at which Katja Brunner was awarded the renowned Mülheim Dramatist Prize for the play . She is therefore the youngest recipient in the history of the award. In 2013 she was voted Young Dramatist of the Year by the jury of critics for the trade journal Theater heute . In the same year she was nominated for the Heidelberger Stückemarkt with “Hell is just a sauna” . Her debut piece "Von den Beinen zu Kurz" was translated into Spanish, among other things, and is successfully played in Buenos Aires , Argentina . In 2014, “Change the physical state of your grief” premiered at the Lucerne Theater, directed by Marco Štorman. In the following year there was the premiere of “ghosts are also only people”, a commissioned work for the Lucerne theater “about the dependent, fully cared for existence, the last phase of a long life”. In Die Hand is a lonely hunter , which premiered in 2019 at the Volksbühne Berlin, Katja Brunner addresses "Assaults, self-hatred and the compulsion to self-optimization".

Katja Brunner also appeared in public as a performer, among others with Salome Schneebeli and Ivna Žic at the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich, with Nils Amadeus Lange in the performance Die Kotze on the hot tin roof at the Zurich Theater Spektakel and with her group Die Schinken von tomorrow .

She also regularly publishes texts in literary magazines and newspapers. During the 2014/15 theater season, Brunner was a resident author at the Lucerne Theater and had her own late night show. She lives in Zurich and Berlin.

In February 2018, Katja Brunner was awarded the CHF 30,000 prize of the Culture Prize of the Zurich Government Council for her work.

Works

  • from the legs too short , drama, world premiere 2012, Theater Winkelwiese Zurich, director: Antje Thoms ; German premiere 2013, Staatstheater Hannover, director: Heike M. Goetze ; to appear in print as a supplement to Theater heute , 54th year 2013, issue 5; Radio play production WDR, 2014, directed by Erik Altorfer (audio book CD 2015 The Healthy People Dispatch )
  • You have nothing to lose except your fear , radio play, SRF , 2012
  • Hell is just a sauna , drama, world premiere 2014, Theater Rampe, director: Marie Bues
  • Change the physical state of your grief , acting, world premiere 2014, Lucerne Theater, director: Marco Štorman; in print published by Theater der Zeit , Gunnar Decker : Die Selbstentfesselungskünstlerin , 04/2014
  • Ghosts are only people , drama, world premiere 2014, Lucerne Theater, director: Heike M. Goetze ; published in print in Theater der Zeit , Gunnar Decker: Negligence on my own self , 06/2015;
  • I slept with God , acting, world premiere 2017, Staatstheater Mainz, directed by Marco Štorman
  • THE BUTCHER IS COLD OR OHLALAHELVETIA , drama, world premiere in 2017, Schauspielhaus Zürich, directed by Barbara Falter
  • The hand is a lonely hunter , drama, world premiere May 2019, Volksbühne Berlin , directed by Pınar Karabulut

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GND data set of the DNB
  2. ↑ Andreas Brunner resigns from the stage of prosecutors In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of February 21, 2014
  3. ↑ Theater an der Winkelwiese ( Memento from June 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c muelheim-ruhr.de
  5. ↑ a b Short biography ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at Henschel-Verlag
  6. ↑ Schauspiel Hannover ( Memento from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Mülheim Dramatist Prize for Abusive Drama. ( Memento from June 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: WDR from May 30, 2013
  8. ↑ Theater heute Mülheim blog ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterheute.de
  9. ↑ Award for playwright Katja Brunner In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from September 5, 2013.
  10. ↑ Video portrait of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt
  11. ↑ Information page on the Heidelberg Stückemarkt
  12. ↑ Andreas Klaeui: Katja Brunner, celebrated in Argentina: In the children's room In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 10, 2014.
  13. ↑ Barbara Villiger Heilig: Funeral meal with maggots In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 23, 2014.
  14. ↑ Barbara Villiger Heilig: Toilet paper tricks and grandchildren's tricks , In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 11, 2015.
  15. ↑ Tobias Becker: Touching without hygiene gloves In: Spiegel Online from May 11, 2015
  16. ↑ Anna Fastabend: From the Barbie Hell. In: https://www.sueddeutsche.de . Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 4, 2019, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Andreas Klaeui: Who enlightened you? , Night Review October 10, 2013.
  18. ↑ I will always be poorer than my machines , published in WOZ Die Wochenzeitung on May 7, 2015.
  19. ↑ Essay In: bella triste 39.
  20. ↑ Late Night with Katja Brunner in Neubad Lucerne
  21. ↑ [1]
  22. ↑ Radio play Ghosts are only people , kulturradio.de November 23, 2018, accessed February 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich