Pedro Lenz

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Pedro Lenz (2008)

Pedro Lenz (born March 8, 1965 in Langenthal ) is a Swiss writer who writes and lectures mostly in dialect .

Life

Pedro Lenz completed his apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1984. On his second educational path , he completed the Swiss Matura in 1995. He then studied Spanish literature for a few semesters at the University of Bern . Since 2001 he has been working full-time as a writer.

Lenz writes columns for various newspapers and magazines, from the NZZ to the WOZ . As an author he is a member of the stage project “Hohe Stirnen” and the spoken word group Bern is everywhere . He has written texts for various theater groups and for Swiss radio SRF. He is since 2007 member of the team of the morning history of Radio SRF 1 , where he is regularly heard at 8.40 PM. In 2008 he took part in the Klagenfurt Literature Days.

He has expressed himself several times on current political issues, for example as president of the association “ No” at the end of broadcasting against the popular initiative “ Yes” to the abolition of radio and television fees (No Billag) .

Pedro Lenz lives in Olten , where he is co-owner of a restaurant with journalist Werner de Schepper . On New Year's Eve 2017 he became father of a son together with the actress and television presenter Rahel Grunder, daughter of the politician and entrepreneur Hans Grunder . On October 18 of the following year, the couple married on their 30th birthday.

Awards

  • Literature Prize of the Swiss Central Workers' Education Center, 1994
  • Literature grant from the City of Bern in Glasgow, 2005
  • Cabaret Prize «Goldener Biberfladen Appenzell», 2005
  • Culture Prize of the City of Langenthal, 2005
  • Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern for the entire literary oeuvre last year, 2008
  • Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern for “Der Goalie bin ig”, 2010
  • Culture Prize from the Swiss Trade Union Federation, 2010
  • Nomination for the Swiss Book Prize with “Der Goalie bin ig”, 2010
  • Schiller Prize for Literature from German-speaking Switzerland for “Der Goalie bin ig”, 2011
  • Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern 2011 for the Duo Hohe Stirnen with Pedro Lenz and Patrik Neuhaus for their program “Tanze wie ne Schmätterling”
  • Winner of various poetry slams
  • The film adaptation of the novel “ Der Goalie bin ig ”, directed by Sabine Boss and with the participation of Lenz, received the 2014 Swiss Film Prize . Pedro Lenz, together with Sabine Boss and Jasmine Hoch, received the Quartz for the best script of the year.
  • Prize for Literature 2014 from the Canton of Solothurn
  • Swiss Cabaret Award 2015 from the Federal Office of Culture

Works

Books

  • The world is a handkerchief. Poems from there, from there and from over there. X-Time, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-909990-08-8 .
  • Moments with people. A mosaic. 71 portraits. Stämpfli, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-9520209-2-3 .
  • Tarzan in Switzerland. Collected columns on spoken language. X-Time, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-909990-12-6 .
  • The Little Lexicon of Provincial Literature. Bilger, Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-908010-72-2 .
  • Plötzlech hets di am Füdle. Banal stories. Cosmos, Muri bei Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-305-00425-6 .
  • I am the goalie. Novel. Publishing house, The Healthy People Dispatch, Lucerne 2010, ISBN 978-3-905825-17-6 .
    • Translations: see separate section below
  • Dance like a Schmätterling. The hairdresser and the boxer. Cosmos, Muri bei Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-305-00426-3 .
  • (Ed.) Carl Albert Loosli : Loosli for the jacket pocket . Stories, poems and satires. Rotpunkt, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85869-426-3 .
  • Liebesgschichte , Roman, Cosmos, Muri bei Bern, 2012, ISBN 978-3-305-00428-7 .
  • I bi more from one. The remarkable story of an Emmental settler . Cosmos, Muri bei Bern, 2012, ISBN 978-3-305-00465-2 .
  • Radio. Morning stories. Publishing house Der Gesundheit Menschenversand, Lucerne 2014, ISBN 978-3-905825-92-3 .
  • Wienachtsgschichte - from Klaus Schädelin to Pedro Lenz Cosmos, Muri bei Bern, 2014, ISBN 978-3-305-00468-3 .
  • Football and other fringe sports (with Etrit Hasler), columns from WOZ, WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, Zurich, 2014, ISBN 978-3-906236-12-4 .
  • The gondolier of the mountains. Cosmos, Muri bei Bern 2015, ISBN 978-3-305-00467-6 .
  • Di schöni Fanny. Novel. Cosmos, Muri bei Bern 2016, ISBN 978-3-305-00469-0 .
    • Translation: The beautiful Fanny . Novel. From the Swiss German by Raphael Urweider. Kein & Aber, Zurich, 2017. ISBN 978-3-0369-5767-8
  • The dear god is the limit guard. 44 Columns in dialect , Cosmos Verlag, 2018

Translations of Der Goalie bin ig

  • In porta c'ero io! . Translated from the Bernese dialect into Italian by Simona Sala, Gabriele Capelli Editore, Mendrisio 2011, ISBN 978-88-87469-91-2 .
  • I am the keeper . Translated from the Bernese dialect into High German by Raphael Urweider , Bilger, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03762-024-3 .
  • Naw Much of a Talker . Translated from the Bernese dialect into Scottish English by Donal McLaughlin, Freight Books, Glasgow 2013, ISBN 978-1-908754-22-6 .
  • Čia aš varatarius ; iš šnekamosios Berno vokiečių kalbos vertė Markus Roduner ir Rimantas Kmita. Translation into Lithuanian, BaltArt-Verlag , Langenthal 2013. Series Šveicarijos literatūra BaltArt Leidykloje t. 1, ISBN 978-3-9523109-7-7
  • Vārtsargs esmu es . Translated by Ieva Sprog̓e into Latvian, BaltArt-Verlag , Langenthal 2017, ISBN 9783952455913
  • Faut quitter Schummertal . Translated from the Bernese dialect into French by Daniel Rothenbühler and Nathalie Kehrli, Editions d'en bas, 2014, ISBN 978-2-8290-0471-1 .
  • A portás én vagyok , [fordította: Adamik Lajos]. Translation into Hungarian. L'Harmattan Kiadó, Budapest 2014, ISBN 978-963-236-894-8
  • De keeper ben ik . translated into Dutch by Jolanda Ammon. Em. Querido's Uitgeverij, Amsterdam 2017. ISBN 978-9021403762
  • Вратарь - это я (Vratar '- ėto ja: roman v razgovornoj reči). Translated into Russian by Ruth Widmer and Timur Nevzorov. The healthy shipping of people, Lucerne 2016, ISBN 978-5-9908276-3-9

Stage projects

  • Hohe Stirnen with Patrik Neuhaus (piano, accordion). Programs:
    • Miniatures , 2001
    • Partial Truths , 2003
    • Seal when it's time , 2006
    • Dance like a Schmätterling , 2009
    • I bi more from one - the remarkable story of an Emmental settler , 2013
  • Bern is everywhere
  • Goalie tour with Christian Brantschen (piano), musical reading of the novel Der Goalie am ig , 2011/2012
  • Duo Läng u Breits with Werner Aeschbacher (accordion), performance at the Arosa Humor Festival 2012

Audio CDs

  • I wott nüt gseit ha. Monologues of sorrow. Publishing house The Healthy People Dispatch , Lucerne 2004, ISBN 3-9521517-8-5 .
  • Bern is everywhere. In Cairo (with Adi Blum, Stefanie Grob, Guy Krneta , Gerhard Meister, Michael Pfeuti , Michael Stauffer and Beat Sterchi ). Publishing house The Healthy People Dispatch , Lucerne 2006, ISBN 3-9522993-4-0 .
  • Angeri sews drugs. Monologues of passion. Publishing house Der Gesundheit Menschenversand, Lucerne 2007, ISBN 3-905825-03-1 .
  • The small encyclopedia of provincial literature (live recording in the Café Kairo in Bern on April 14, 2008). Merian, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-85616-389-1 .
  • Ungerdüre. Pedro Lenz sends straw man to the mountain. Textwerkstatt, Olten 2008, ISBN 978-3-905848-08-3 .
  • Bern is everywhere: “partout”. Audiobook, 57 min. Publishing house Der Gesundheit Menschenversand, Lucerne 2008, ISBN 978-3-905825-08-4 .
  • Dance like Schmätterling (with Patrik Neuhaus). Cosmos, Muri bei Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-305-00427-0 .
  • The goalie am ig (with Christian Brantschen ). Audiobook, 4 CDs, 254 minutes. Publishing house, The Healthy People Shipping, Lucerne 2011, ISBN 978-3-905825-31-2 .
  • Love story audio book, 78 min. Cosmos, Muri bei Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-305-00429-4 .
  • I'm more of one (with Patrik Neuhaus). Cosmos, Muri bei Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-305-00466-9 .
  • The Schwalbenkönige publishing house of the healthy people shipping, Lucerne 2014, ISBN 978-3-905825-79-4 .
  • Jimmy Flitz, e Reis dür d Zyt radio play, SoundService, (with Roland Zoss, Steff la Cheffe and others), 2015, ISBN 978-3-03739-324-6
  • The beautiful Fanny . Author reading. Music: Christian Brantschen. Complete reading. SRG, Swiss Radio and Television, Kein & Aber, Zurich, 2017. ISBN 978-3-305-00470-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pedro Lenz , on Radio SRF 1, accessed on November 30, 2016
  2. ↑ The freedom of others. Retrieved December 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ On the train he finds the material for his stories: Pedro Lenz, the world commuter . In: ot Oltner Tagblatt . August 9, 2017 ( oltnertagblatt.ch [accessed December 19, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Katia Murmann: The new novel by the Olten author Alex Capus is a bestseller. August 28, 2016, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Why Pedro Lenz wraps his son on the floor. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Pedro Lenz married his Rahel Grunder! Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenthal