Rolf Niederhauser
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
- 1977 working year for the canton of Solothurn
- 1989 Mara Cassens Prize ; Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
- 1992 Writer-in-Residence at Allegheny College in Meadville , Pennsylvania
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
- Entry about Rolf Niederhauser in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Website of the author Rolf Niederhauser
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Niederhauser, Rolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |