Reto finger
Reto Finger (born February 5, 1972 in Bern ) is a Swiss lawyer and playwright.
Life
Reto Finger grew up in the small rural community of Rumendingen in the canton of Bern . He attended elementary school in the neighboring village of Wynigen . In 1986 his family moved to Burgdorf , where he switched to the local high school. As a schoolboy he worked as a freelancer for the Berner Zeitung . In 1991 Reto Finger passed his Matura . He studied law at the University of Zurich and in Amsterdam . While studying, he wrote his first two pieces for a free theater group in Burgdorf. In June 1999, Finger successfully completed his law degree and worked as an assistant at the European Institute at the University of Zurich (EIZ). He later worked for several years at the Zurich District Court as an auditor, clerk and from summer 2014 as a part-time substitute judge.
From the Children's and Youth Theater Center in the Federal Republic of Germany , Reto Finger received a Paul Maar scholarship for the authors' workshop (children and youth theater) of the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel in April 2003. In 2003/2004, Finger was a participant in the dramenProzessor , a workshop for young Swiss talents Dramatist, which has been performed by the Theater an der Winkelwiese together with the Schlachthaus Theater Bern and the Theater Tuchlaube Aarau since 2000 . In October 2004 he was invited to the 2nd Author Workshop Days at the Burgtheater in Vienna. In 2004/2005, Finger received a working grant from the Lydia Eymann Foundation in Langenthal ( Canton of Bern ). This was followed by in-house authorship and collaboration in the dramaturgy at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , Schauspiel Essen and Schauspielhaus Bochum .
Reto Finger lives in Zurich and was President of the Association of Authors in Switzerland from 2010 to 2012 .
Memberships
Reto Finger has been a member of the Writers' Association of Switzerland (AdS) since 2004
Awards
- 2004: Lydia Eymann grant
- 2005: Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for "Kaltes Land"
- 2005: Author's Prize of the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA - Swiss Authors' Society) for "Kaltes Land"
- 2007: Nomination for the Prize of the Welti Foundation for the drama for "District Heating"
- 2015: Scholarship further writing from the city of Bern
- 2016: Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern for Hans im Glück
Works
Spectacles
- Room 100bis , world premiere on March 21, 2003, Theater an der Winkelwiese , Zurich, and Theater an der Sihl (today: Theater der Künste , which belongs to the Zurich University of the Arts - ZHdK)
- Laurenz and Anna, an East Side Story , world premiere on August 5, 2004, Fritzenfluh and Open Opera Musiktheater Festival St. Gallen (music: Tino Ulrich)
- Swimming like dogs , world premiere on November 16, 2005, Theater Winkelwiese, Zurich
- District heating , world premiere on March 2, 2006, Sophiensaele , Berlin, as a coproduction with the State Theater Stuttgart and the Theaterhaus Jena
- Kaltes Land , world premiere on October 6, 2006, Nationaltheater Mannheim
- Somebody like me wouldn't keep me from jumping either , world premiere on May 7th, 2007, Schauspiel Essen (venue Casa Nova - Young Drama Essen )
- In the beginning there was fire , world premiere on October 26, 2007, Stadttheater Bern ( Vidmar venue : 1 in the Vidmarhallen )
- Ideas and instincts , world premiere on April 9, 2009, Schauspielhaus Zürich , Schiffbau
- Haus am See , WP: May 6, 2011 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
- Felix Leuschner : Jump into the void . Opera. Libretto Reto Finger. Premiere 2012, music theater in the Revier .
- Before sunrise , Gerhart Hauptmann: adaptation and dramaturgy, premiere 2013 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .
- From the bourgeois heroic life , adaptation after Carl Sternheim, premiere: 2013 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .
- Farinet or the wrong money based on a novel by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz .
Radio plays
- Last hour , production by SWR2 (about the double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel ), 2003
- Kaltes Land , production of SWR2 , 2006
Web links
- Reto Finger , author entry at the Goethe-Institut (New German Drama)
- Finger Reto , entry in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Regula Freuler: Two souls live in his chest , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 6, 2007
- Lukas Etter: "I was encouraged by the nature of the enclosure". City writer Reto Finger takes stock after his year in Langenthal (PDF; 212 kB) , Langenthaler Tageblatt, March 24, 2005
- "Kaltes Land" by Reto Finger.Kleist-Förderpreis for young dramatists 2005 , Dramaturgische Gesellschaft, laudation by Feridun Zaimoglu (PDF file; 184 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The banks sway, the mountains nod, and the tankards clink
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finger, Reto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th February 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |