Sabine Wen-Ching Wang

Sabine Wen-Ching Wang (born August 6, 1973 in Münsterlingen ; also: Sabine Wang ) is a Swiss - Taiwanese writer .

Life

Sabine Wen-Ching Wang was born in 1973 to a Swiss mother and a Taiwanese father in Münsterlingen, Thurgau, and grew up in Appenzell . She studied Sinology and East Asian Art History in Zurich and Taipei .

In 1999 she received a scholarship at the 3rd Klagenfurt literature course as part of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition , in 2004 she was a participant in the authors 'workshop days at the Vienna Burgtheater , and in 2008 in the dramatists ' workshop at the Berlin Theatertreffen .

Wang mainly writes plays , radio plays and poetry . She also publishes texts in anthologies and magazines ( drafts , theater of the time and others). There are translations of her poems in French . The play Spiders is available in Estonian and Spanish .

Sabine Wen-Ching Wang lives in Zurich .

Awards

• 1999: Literature Prize from the Swiss Trade Union Education Center
• 2002: Contribution to the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia
• 2003: Prize of the Swiss Society of Authors (for spiders )
• 2005: Residence grant from the artist residence Chretzeturm , Stein am Rhein
• 2005: Jury Prize of the St. Gallen Author Days
• 2006: Poetry Prize of the International Lake Constance Conference
• 2010: Berlin studio grant from the Zug cultural foundation Landis + Gyr

Works

Theater works

• Be crazy. First performance 2003, Schlachthaus Theater Bern.
  • Segased. 2003 (Estonian) / Aranas. 2004 (Spanish).
• late. World premiere in 2004, Schauspielhaus Zurich .
  • It tarde. 2007 (Spanish). / tard. 2010 (Valencian-Catalan).
• The pocket. 2005
• this is not a love song. Youth theater. First performance in 2006, in the Theater am Gleis Winterthur.
• The green chick. Based on the picture book by Adele Sansone . First performance 2008, Winterthur.
• Corea. First performance 2009, Stadttheater Bern .
• La Cérémonie. Based on the film by Claude Chabrol . 2010.
• Dog dog. World premiere 2011, Schlachthaus Theater Bern.

Radio works

• Cosmos Hotel. Radio play. Composition: Hans Feigenwinter . Directed by Claude Pierre Salmony. Original broadcast DRS 2 , 2000.
  • Cosmos Hotel. 2001. (English)
• Dog dog. Radio play. Composition: Jörg Köppl. Director: Simona Ryser . Original broadcast DRS 2, 2007.
• The invitation. Radio play. Composition: Philipp Schaufelberger. Director: Simona Ryser. Original broadcast DRS 2, 2009.

Poetry

• the land in me. from a too z and more , Zurich 1995.

essay

• The children's room as terra incognita. A memory. In: Pro Helvetia (Hrsg.): Blickwechsel East Asia - Bridges into the nearer distance. Passages No. 29, spring 2005. pp. 30-33.

Web links

• Literature by and about Sabine Wen-Ching Wang in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Sabine Wen-Ching Wang at Literaturport
• Sabine Wang at Rowohlt Theater Verlag
• Sabine Wen-Ching Wang in the Lexicon of Contemporary Swiss Writers .
• Wang's radio play The invitation and dog dog . At Radio DRS 2 , accessed on February 3, 2016.
• Four poems by Wang. (PDF; 106 kB) In: terra cognita 8/2006. Retrieved February 3, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 3. Klagenfurt literature course. (→ Scholarship holders → Sabine Wen-Ching Wang.) On the website of the 1999 Bachmann Competition. Accessed on February 3, 2016.
2. ↑ Examples from the "North-South Passage".  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 21, 2011.  
3. ^ Daniele Muscionico: Spaceship Psychiatry. Review of “Spinnen” by Sabine Wang at the Zurich Theater an der Winkelwiese . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of November 10, 2003. Retrieved on February 23, 2019.
4. ↑ Press dossier on The Green Chick . (PDF; 733 kB) On the website of Theater Katerland . Retrieved August 21, 2011.
5. ↑ piece description on the website of the artist group 400asa . Retrieved August 21, 2011.
6. ↑ piece description on the website of the theater slaughterhouse Bern. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
7. ↑ Matthias Heid: Trunked suitcase. Sabine Wen-Ching Wang's “Hund Hund”. In Theater heute , 2008 yearbook, page 180. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
8. ↑ Author's talk about The Invitation . Radio DRS 2, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
9. ↑ Full text (PDF file, 624 kB). ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 21, 2011.