Maja Beutler
Maja Beutler (born December 8, 1936 in Bern ) is a Swiss writer.
Life
Maja Beutler grew up in Bern. She worked as a translator after graduating from the Zurich interpreting school. She also completed several study visits to France, England and Italy. In 1976 Maja Beutler went public with the collection of stories Flissingen is not on the map . In 1983/84 she worked as a resident author at the Stadttheater Bern and also worked for years as a freelancer for the Swiss radio station DRS . She is one of the few Swiss playwrights in German-speaking countries. Today she lives in Bern.
Awards
- Book Prize of the City of Bern (1976/1980/1984)
- Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation (1983)
- Welti Prize for Drama (1985)
- Literature Prize of the City of Bern (1988)
Works
Epic
- Flissingen is missing from the menu . Stories. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1976, ISBN 3-7296-0051-6
- Gain a foothold . Novel. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1980, ISBN 3-7296-0111-3
- The word trap . Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-545-36364-3
- The image of the Doña Quixote . Stories. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-312-00144-7
- The hour when we learn to fly . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-312-00198-6
- Black snow. Stories & The Signora's Album . Zytglogge, Oberhofen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7296-0782-8
- I've been living for a long time today . Texts 1973 to 2013. Zytglogge, Oberhofen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7296-0870-2
Collected radio texts in book form
- Careful. Texts for the new day . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1985
- Both. Texts for the new day . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1991
- Dayward. New radio texts in German and Berndeutsch . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1996
Dramas
- The Blue Law , first performance 1979
- The dream , ballet libretto, first performed in 1980
- The Marmelspiel , first performance 1985
- Lady Macbeth no longer washes her hands , first performed in 1994
Radio features
- I dared it. Walter Mehring , how he writes and lives , 1978
- There is no going back . Commemorative broadcast for Walter Mehring, 1981
literature
- Esther Ackermann: Maja Beutler . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 190 f.
- Linda M. Hess-Liechti: The prison continues next door ... Studies on mental prison and liberation issues in prose by Margrit Baur , Maja Beutler and Margrit Schriber . Akademischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-88099-327-0
Web links
- Publications by and about Maja Beutler in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Maja Beutler's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Maja Beutler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Maja Beutler in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
- The upright walk. The author Maja Beutler will publish 70 articles from the NZZ on December 8, 2006
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beutler, Maja |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |