Michel Mettler

Michel Mettler (* May 1966 in Aarau ) is a Swiss dramaturge , musician and writer .

Life

Michel Mettler initially worked as a dramaturge and musician. From 1999 to 2001 he was artistic director of the forum: claque theater in Baden . Shorter texts have appeared in various Swiss newspapers and magazines and in anthologies . He belonged to the group of authors "Netz" founded by Perikles Monioudis in 1991 . As a dramaturge he worked with the music theater group DIE REGIERUNG, with the musician Nik Bärtsch, with Aglaja Veteranyi and Jens Nielsen as well as in various other independent theater productions.

From 2003 he was on tour with three musicians and authors who were friends as the "Four Jew's Harps". In 2006 his first novel Die Spange was published by Suhrkamp Verlag . In 2009 he published a selection of emails under the title Depeschen nach Mailland , which he had received in a lengthy exchange of emails from Jürg Laederach . Also in 2009 he published a collection of reflections on paintings in the Insel-Bücherei with Der Blick aus dem Bild . In 2010 another cooperation followed with a fellow writer, the volume "H Introduces itself", stories that Mettler wrote together with Felix Kauf.

Awards

• 2006 award from the Swiss Schiller Foundation

Works

Books / texts

• The clasp . Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-41755-X
• The given mountain . Text on the centenary of the Aargauer Heimatschutz. Schwabe, Basel 2007, ISBN 3-7965-2405-2
• The view from the picture. Of the painted and the unpainted . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2009 ( Insel-Bücherei 1321), ISBN 978-3-458-19321-0
• H introduces himself . With Felix purchase. Real time 2010. With drawings by Andres Lutz

Sound carrier

• Mask change . Audio CD. Arsmedia, Lenzburg 2006
• Singing irons, clips and rails (with Anton Bruhin , Bodo Hell , Peter Weber ). Engeler, Basel 2007, ISBN 3-938767-36-7

Editing

• Jürg Laederach: Dispatches to Mailland . With an epilogue by Michel Mettler. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-42059-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Michel Mettler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Entry about Michel Mettler in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Beriges Dunkel Short text by Michel Mettler