Katja Fusek

Katja Fusek (born March 7, 1968 in Prague ), actually Kateřina Fusek, is a Czech - Swiss writer . She writes in German .

Life

In 1978 Fusek's mother emigrated to Switzerland with her and her sister. From 1987 Katja Fusek studied German, art history and French literature and linguistics in Basel and at the Sorbonne in Paris, graduated in 1994 with a licentiate and then trained as a high school teacher. Since 1990 she has been teaching at various grammar schools in Basel and Normandy and at the Rudolf Steiner School in Oberemmental. Today she is mainly active in adult education.

In the years 1999–2001, she wrote her first novel Novemberfäden , which was published in 2002. Since then she has published three more novels as well as short stories, poetry and plays. Some prose texts have also appeared in Czech translation in Czech literary magazines. Since 2005 she has been working on theater projects with various directors and theater educators.

She is a member of Authors of Switzerland AdS, board member of the ARENA Literature Initiative Riehen, the German-Swiss PEN Center and the Zurich Writers' Association ZSV.

Fusek lives with her husband and two daughters in Riehen near Basel.

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Prose (selection)

• November threads . Novel. Janus Verlag, Basel 2002
• Fili di Novembre. In Bilico tra due lingue. Traduzione critica di ' Margherita Codurelli. L 'Harmattan ITALIA 2019
• The dragon tree . Stories. OSL Verlag, Basel 2005
• The silent narrator . Novel. OSL Verlag, Riehen / Basel 2006
• Mare blu. A love story with Homer . Roman (with Valentin Herzog). OSL Verlag, Riehen / Basel 2011
• Out of the shadows. Novel. edition 8, Zurich 2017
• Numerous articles in German and Czech anthologies and literary magazines ("Roots", Christoph Merian Verlag; drafts; Host, CZ and others)

Stage works

• The short circuit . One-act play, performance in Miller's Studio, Zurich, February 2005, and at the Schauspielhaus Basel, June 2005
• The envious . Performance by the Generationentheater Wechselstrom at the Arlecchino Theater Basel, October 2008
• Anywhere and anywhere . Performance by the Generationentheater Wechselstrom in the Arlecchino Theater Basel, April 2010

The one-act play Der Kurzschluss was written for the “Secondo” competition with the theme of migrant children and awarded a prize by the jury.

Secondary literature

Renata Cornejo: Home in Word. On the language change of German-writing Czech authors after 1968. An inventory. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0602-9 .

Awards

• Upper Rhine Rollwagen - 2003: Second prize in the short story competition
• Solothurn Literature Days - 2003 and 2005: Winner of the Opennet short story competition

Web links

• Entry about Katja Fusek in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Katja Fusek - A Czech writes German . Radio Praha website, May 18, 2010
• Katja Fusek . Entry in the Basel literary archive