René Regenass

René Regenass (shared pseudonym with Jürg Moser : Hieronymus Zwiebelfisch , born May 15, 1935 in Basel ) is a Swiss writer and visual artist .

Life

René Regenass comes from a civil servant family. He attended grammar school in Basel and, after graduating from high school, began studying history , Romance languages and German at the University of Basel . After five semesters, he broke off his studies and set off on a bicycle tour across Europe. Then he lived from various activities; he was, among other things, a commercial clerk, copywriter and editor of a hospital magazine . From 1969 he published smaller prose texts in magazines and anthologies . He has lived as a freelance writer in Basel since 1979 . He is also active as a sculptor .

René Regenass is a writer of novels , short stories , poetry , dramas and radio plays . He is also an employee of the satirical magazine Nebelspalter . The constant theme of his works is flight, both in its manifestation as a conscious liberation from personal constraints and as the fate of the displaced in our time.

René Regenass is a member of the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center ; from 1982 to 1985 he was President of the Olten Group .

Awards

• 1976 Award of the Pro Helvetia Foundation
• 1980 Prize for individual works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 1986 Literature Prize of the Canton of Baselland
• 1988 Welti Foundation Prize for Drama for Tango d'amore

Works

Original editions

• The visit mostly stayed overnight , Bern 1969
• We didn't invent powder, we just own the factories . Texts, Basel 1971
• All ways bottomless and other stories , Basel 1972
• Who knows the man? Radio play, Zurich 1972
• If you smear election posters, you damage someone else's property . Roman, Basel 1973
• Triumph is a brand . Texts, Basel 1975
• Departure to Urbino . Story, Basel / Obfelden 1976
• A barrier does not throw leaves . Roman, Bern 1976
• In all silence. 12 stories , Basel 1977
• Murder stones. Sensible sentences about the randomness of everyday life , Bern 1978
• So that the tongue doesn't say the wrong thing , Basel 1979
• Portrait of a porter . Narrative. Rowohlt (Das neue Buch 125), Reinbek 1979
• The cold of the equator . Roman, Zurich 1982
• Headstand. Occasional and everyday stories , Rorschach 1984
• Vernissage. A novel from our museum days, written with the back to the picture , Zurich 1984
• Who is laughing there? , Rorschach 1985 (together with Jürg Moser under the name Hieronymus Zwiebelfisch)
• The Lilliputian . Stories, Basel 1986
• Shadow journey . Roman, Zurich 1986
• Scott's loneliness. Way back . Two stories, Basel 1989
• Ankle rod . Roman, Bern 1991
• Broken up. Jura-Stories & Objects , Basel 1995
• Longing for number girls , Rorschach 1995
• The pickup . Roman, Basel 1998
• The barrier . Roman, Basel 2002
• Waypoints . Stories, Basel 2005
• The house on the slope. A novella from the Jura , 2007
• Praise to slowness. Texts with photographs from the Tilo Richter collection, Basel 2015

Theatrical performances

• Die Luller , Zurich 1973
• The meeting , Solothurn 1974
• The tailor , Salzburg 1976
• My Chekhov , Solothurn 1980
• Poor, poor bears , Solothurn 1982
• Nice times , Solothurn 1983
• Where is the dog buried? , Basel 1984
• And do you come to Gottstatt , Gottstatt and Biel 1995

Radio plays

• Who knows the man? , Radio DRS, Basel 1969
• I went home unexpectedly quickly , Radio DRS, Zurich 1980
• Auto-Stop , Radio DRS, Zurich 1981

literature

• Brigitte Marschall: René Regenass . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1469.

Web links

• Literature by and about René Regenass in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about René Regenass in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Own web presence as a sculptor