Rainer Bressler

Rainer Bressler (born December 3, 1945 in Windisch AG ) is a Swiss lawyer and writer .

Life

Rainer Bressler is the son of Margrit (1911–1999) and the doctor Hans-Günther Bressler-Kessi (1911–1985). Hans-Günther Bressler was born in Jauer, Silesia, studied medicine in Breslau, Vienna, Halle and Heidelberg, was unable to do a doctorate in 1937 for racial reasons , which is why he emigrated to Switzerland in 1937 and from late 1937 until his retirement in 1978 worked as a psychiatrist and forensic scientist in the Königsfelden Psychiatric Clinic . Rainer Bressler studied law at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1970 with a licentiate . He then did his doctorate with Peter Noll . After working for the finance department of the Canton of Zurich , he found a position in 1982 as the legal secretary of the Zurich District Council, specializing in social issues and guardianship. In this supervisory function over the social department of the city of Zurich, he experienced the city councilors and social welfare officers Emilie Lieberherr , Monika Stocker and Martin Waser and was concerned with, among other things, controversial issues such as the Platzspitz and the abuse of social welfare that was discussed by Weltwoche .

Travel impressions (Sicily and Pantelleria) of him appeared, the first in 1969 in the Aargauer-Zeitung, the second in 1978 in the Schweizerischer Beobachter . This was also read out on the Swiss Radio DRS , Studio Basel. In 1981 Radio DRS, Studio Zurich, published his first radio play “Tom Garner and Jamie Lester. Portrait of an Impossible Friendship ”(Contributors: Ellen Widmann , Walter Andreas Müller ) produced and broadcast. With his radio play "Follow me, Madame!" (Contributors: Lola Müthel , Hans Caninenberg ), produced in 1985, he was invited to the 7th Solothurn Literature Days in 1985 and to the 3rd Radio Play Days in Berlin in 1986, at the Literary Colloquium Berlin . His first novel, “Privatzeug 1854 bis 2012. An attempt to search for clues. Spur 1 Reisen “was published in 2013.

Rainer Bressler is a member of the Swiss Writers' Association (AdS) and ProLitteris . As a board member of the Zürcher Theaterverein (1998 to 2006) he was co-editor of the TheaterZeitung (until 2004), where he wrote his own articles about the Sogar theater , Theater Rigiblick , Keller 62 Zurich and the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich . From 1998 to 2005 he was a member of the Board of Trustees and President of the Foundation, succeeding Emilie Lieberherr, of the Social and Old Age Fund (SAF) of the Swiss Writers' Association (SSV), the predecessor organization of the AdS. Since his retirement he has been living as a freelance writer in Zurich and is also a member of the board of the Pfuusbus association, Pastor Ernst Sieber's social services.

Works

Travel impressions:

• Memories and impressions of Sicily. Travel impression, Aargauer Tagblatt 1969
• Under the southern sun, travel impression. Swiss Observer, April 1978 / Swiss Radio DRS, October 11, 1978

Radio plays:

• Tom Garner and Jamie Lester. Portrait of an impossible friendship. Swiss Radio DRS 1981
• Morning concert. Swiss Radio DRS 1983
• Follow me madame! Swiss Radio DRS 1985
• Riots in Zurich. Swiss Radio DRS 1986
• Next to the sun. Swiss Radio DRS 1989
• Beloved / beloved. Swiss Radio DRS 1991
• Jugglers of the night. Swiss Radio DRS 1993
• Near-minute thriller. Swiss Radio DRS 1993

Plays:

• Arrival, 1986. Free for the world premiere, published in Spur 2 Spiele, ISBN 978-3-7322-9013-0

Novels:

• Lane 1 travel. Novel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-3734-0
• Track 2 games. Novel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-9013-0
• Track 3 writing. Novel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-5297-8
• Lane 4 densities. Roman 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-8251-9
• Lane 5 weaving. Novel 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-0736-5

Anthologies:

• Beloved / beloved. Radio play 1991, in: Ach & Och. The Swiss radio play book. Edited and introduced by Reinhardt Stumm, in collaboration with Schweizer Radio DRS in Haffmans Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-251-00416-6
• Beloved / beloved. 8 radio plays, Karpos Verlag Loznica 2008, ISBN 978-86-85941-08-5

Web links

• Website from Rainer Bressler
• Entry about Rainer Bressler in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry about Rainer Bressler in the Pfuusbus association
• Publications by and about Rainer Bressler in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library