Rolf Niederhauser

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Rolf Niederhauser 2014 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Rolf Niederhauser (born October 25, 1951 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Rolf Niederhauser grew up in Biberist / Canton Solothurn . After attending primary and district school, he completed an apprenticeship as an electrician in Solothurn . He worked in the profession he had learned, interrupted by a year-long job as a proofreader for the Solothurner Zeitung . In addition, he made up the secondary school leaving examination in 1974 ; He then studied economics at the University of Basel from 1976 to 1982 . This study , he graduated with a degree of Licentiate , after which he worked as a journalist working. From 2002 to 2002 he headed a research project on extracurricular learning in Basel.

Niederhauser's first literary attempts go back to his apprenticeship years. Since 1988 he has lived as a freelance writer in Basel . In 1989 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . In 2014 his novel Strange Loop was published, on which he has been writing for the last 20 years. Rolf Niederhauser is a writer of novels , poems and plays .

Awards

Works

  • Man in overdress , Frauenfeld u. a. 1976
  • A few young people are tired of waiting for the end of the mere assumption that there are better forms of human community , Darmstadt et al. a. 1978. The book deals with the Kreuz cooperative in Solothurn.
  • Colder days in seven pictures , Darmstadt a. a. 1980
  • All the best , Darmstadt u. a. 1987
  • Nada or The Question of a Moment , Darmstadt 1988
  • Requiem for a Revolution , Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • When everyday life goes to school , Basel 1992 (together with Peter Bichsel)
  • Strange loop . Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2014. ISBN 978-3-85869-628-1

Editing

  • Stories from the history of German-speaking Switzerland after 1945 , Darmstadt a. a. 1983 (with Martin Zingg)
  • Max Frisch : "I introduce myself" , Frankfurt am Main 1995
  • Learning outside of school , Bern a. a. 2004 (with Heinz Rhyn)

Web links

Commons : Rolf Niederhauser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (June 29, 2014) .