Monique Schwitter

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Monique Schwitter, 2015

Monique Schwitter (born March 2, 1972 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer and actress .

Life

From 1993 to 1997 Schwitter studied theater directing and acting at the Salzburg Mozarteum . She then worked as an actress at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , the Schauspiel Frankfurt and from 2000 to 2004 at the Schauspielhaus Graz . From 2005 to 2010 she was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. During this time she also worked as a reciter, radio and dubbing speaker and as a director, particularly of literary programs about Peter Handke , Ernst Jandl , Raymond Queneau and Sarah Kane, among others . At the Deutsches Schauspielhaus she also ran her own literary salon, the “Damensalon”, and appeared as a blues singer. As an actress, she has appeared at numerous theater festivals such as the Mülheimer Theatertage (1999), “Reich und Famous” in Berlin (2001), “Theater der Welt” in Stuttgart (2005), Wiener Festwochen (2006), Salzburg Festival (2006), «Theaterformen» in Hanover (2007) and Berlin Theatertreffen (2008).

From 2002 she published her own texts, prose pieces and stories, initially in various literary magazines, especially in the manuscripts , after their editor Alfred Kolleritsch became aware of them. In 2005 she published her first volume of short stories when it snows at the crocodile , for which she received the Robert Walser Prize in 2006 and the Schiller Foundation Prize. In 2008 the theater play Himmels-W was commissioned for the Lucerne Theater and premiered on April 3, 2008. In the same year she took part in a Max Frisch conference at the University of Brussels. Her first novel, Ears Have No Lids , was also published in 2008 and was translated into Chinese in 2010 and presented at the Shanghai Expo. In 2011 the story volume Goldfish Memory followed . In 2010 she decided to end her career as an actress and from now on work as a freelance writer.

At the invitation of Hildegard Elisabeth Keller , Monique Schwitter took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2015. Her novel Eins im Andern was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2015 and was awarded the Swiss Book Prize 2015. The story revolves around a woman around 40 who, through Internet research, finds out that her first love killed herself years ago. Then she deals with her love biography based on twelve men. She was also one of the winners of the 2016 Swiss Literature Prize .

Monique Schwitter lives with her husband and two sons (eight and six years old (2018)) in Hamburg .

Works

Contributions to anthologies

  • Three parts, four sides, towards nothing. In: Max Frisch : Citoyen and Poet. Wallstein, March 2011.
  • In harmony, at a distance. In: The most beautiful stranger is with you: Alfred Kolleritsch on his 80th birthday. Literaturverlag Droschl, February 10, 2011.
  • Dinner with Dürrenmatt , in: I am at home in a few places: The Zürcher Kronenhalle in stories, Weissbooks, November 15, 2010.
  • White and black. Narrative. In: What became of me, a plus trois éditions / Lausanne. Commissioned by the Robert Walser Biel Foundation , 2008.
  • Who was once Othello. Narrative. In: Unterwegs - Almanac of the Salzburg Festival 2008. Residence, Salzburg 2008.
  • Friday. In: Daniela Keizer - Die Stadt: Filmarchitekturen. Merian, 2007-2010. (Photo book / stories)
  • to make out. Narrative. In: wording. The best lyrics. Air shaft, Vienna 2005.
  • airmail. Narrative. In: air. Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, 2004.

"Ladies Salon"

In this literary salon Monique Schwitter presented her favorite literature every first Wednesday of the month from March 2006 to July 2008 in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Monique Schwitter is honored with the Swiss Book Prize 2015 , SRF November 8, 2015, accessed January 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 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 / bachmannpreis.orf.at
  3. ↑ http://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/nominiert/ - accessed on September 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ The Federal Office of Culture awards the Swiss Literature Prizes 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Office for Culture FOC CH dated December 28, 2015, accessed January 18, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bak.admin.ch
  5. ↑ Monique Schwitter: What is Identity? More like aerial roots ... - Perhaps only the Swiss who live abroad really feel like Swiss. For the Swiss abroad, the experience of foreignness is explained by the fact that they are different, i.e. foreigners, i.e. Swiss. NZZ April 30, 2018
  6. ↑ Samuel Moser: The relationshipless. Book review in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on December 15, 2011, accessed on December 17, 2011.
  7. ↑ Philipp Theisohn: Love the beasts. Book review in the | Neue Zürcher Zeitung on August 8, 2015, accessed on December 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schwitter, Monique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich