Simone Meier

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Simone Meier (born March 5, 1970 in Lausanne ) is a Swiss journalist and writer.

Simone Meier (2018)

Career

Simone Meier grew up in Zeiningen in Aargau as the daughter of a teacher. After studying German, American and art history in Basel , Berlin and Zurich , she began working on a dissertation project as a proofreader at the Zurich weekly WoZ in spring 1996 . Six months later she got a job as a literary editor, after which she was poached by the Tages-Anzeiger , where she worked until 2014 as culture editor, columnist, deputy head of culture and women's representative. Since then she has been the culture and society editor at the news portal watson . Her subjects range between films, television, meat and feminism, between Judith Butler and reality formats such as the Bachelor's degree.

In 1998 she began her first novel, which appeared in 2000 under the title Mein Lieb, mein Lieb, mein Leben by Hoffmann and Campe . It is a fictionalized homage to her grandmother, who briefly made it from factory seamstress to mannequin in the 1930s. The For You called the novel "A book full of dizzying desire," the taz "a bittersweet fairy tale."

In 2017 her second meat was released by Kein & Aber . Meat is a novel about people who like to eat meat and have sex. The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: “No phase of human life is as negative as the menopause in women. In her novel Fleisch , the Swiss writer Simone Meier shows that this time also has its fun side. " The taz called the novel "amusing and clever", the NZZ considers it "an entertaining, fast-paced reading without any claim to knowledge".

In addition to her work as a journalist (including for Süddeutsche Zeitung , Theater heute , Der Spiegel , Die Zeit , Frankfurter Rundschau and Freitag ) and writer, she also worked as a juror for the Berlin Theatertreffen (2001-2003), and curator of the Autorentheatertage at the Thalia Theater Hamburg ( 2005) and juror of the Mülheimer Theatertage . In 2006 she wrote an adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic Cyrano de Bergerac for the director Christina Paulhofer at the Theater Basel . In August 2018, she and Sibylle Berg, Spiegel columnist Margarete Stokowski and others launched the DieKanon campaign , an attempt at an all-female canon writing .

In 2019 her third novel Kuss (No & But) was published, which illuminates the abysses behind the beautiful facade of a couple in the thirties with a lot of humor. Spiegel Online wrote "[...] Simone Meier [...] sends her thoughts on the roller coaster and creates an atmosphere made of the finest sandpaper that crackles right from the start." The WDR describes Simone Meier as a "precise observer of the relationship rituals of today's big city people."

Güzin Kar , Nadia Brügger and Simone Meier began to write about male colleagues on Twitter in the summer of 2019, as male reviewers do about female writers. Her hashtag #schichterdran immediately went viral and many colleagues, including Sibylle Berg , also spoke up. # Dichterdran developed into a phenomenon that caught the media's attention worldwide.

Simone Meier lives with her partner in Zurich.

Publications

Books

Contributions (selection)

  • On the historical and literary image of women in the 17th century. Femininity in the field of tension between the Reformation and the Early Enlightenment. In: Places of Gender History. Chronos, 1994, ISBN 3-905311-41-0 .
  • Engendering Space: Towards a Matriarchal Democracy? On the Representation of Femininity in the Art of Winslow Homer and Mary Cassat. In: Democracy and the Arts in the United States. Fink, 1996, ISBN 3-7705-3084-5 .
  • Love bread, stale. In: Die Ex. Rororo, 2000, ISBN 3-499-22669-3 .
  • «Buongiorno Inferno»: Reproduction fantasies in German electro-pop and pop theater between René Pollesch and Tocotronic. In: Techniques of Reproduction. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89741-095-8 .
  • Farewell letter. In: «And I thought it was love» - farewell letters from women. DVA, 2006, ISBN 3-421-05920-9 .
  • Dirty Blond American Dream - Cheerleader in the American cinema. Essay. In: Cinema 53. Schüren Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-604-1 .
  • Don't Mock the Clothes! The Modish Existentialism of "Sex and the City". Essay. In: A la Mode - The Third Way of Fashion. Whyart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-905714-52-4 .
  • Various articles in Dialectical - What Dialect is. Dörlemann 2011, ISBN 978-3-908777-69-4 .
  • Various articles in On Series, Scenes and Sequences . Edition Fink, 2017, ISBN 978-3-03746-213-3 .

Prizes and awards

  • 2000: Sponsorship award from the Lake Constance Conference and honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich for Mein Lieb, mein Lieb, mein Leben
  • 2003: Literature scholarship in Single House, Upstate New York
  • 2015: Prix Pathé for film criticism
  • 2016: Funding from the Canton of Zurich and Pro Helvetia , for meat
  • 2017: Columnist of the Year
  • 2019: Credit from the Canton of Zurich

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simone Meier: "My resistance is evident in the breadth of my actions". In: Tages-Anzeiger. December 31, 2012, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Star philosopher Judith Butler on Beyoncé's stomach, Gaga's birth and trans people at GNTM. In: Watson. October 31, 2017, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Simone Meier: My love, my love, my life . Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-423-13063-9 .
  4. ↑ Simone Meier: My love, my love, my life. Novel. Pearl divers , accessed November 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Verena Mayer: body mass, slipped. In: Süddeutsche.de . 2017, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Nina Apin: Body The middle-aged woman: Simone Meier's novel "Meat" is amusing and clever, but striking: As in a gender textbook. In: The daily newspaper. March 25, 2017, p. 14 , accessed November 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Sebastien Fanzun: Love in the Times of the Chop . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 1, 2017, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Sibylle Berg: General knowledge: You must know these women. In: Spiegel Online . August 23, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Simone Meier on #DIEKANON - Which women you have to know today. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Lena Münch: Relationship Study "Kiss": He is the provider, she is a housewife - that scares both of them . In: Spiegel Online . February 13, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 11, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Simone Meier: "Kiss". April 23, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
  12. ^ Sian Cain: Sally Rooney's 'sensuous lips': why male book critics diminish female writers . In: The Guardian . August 12, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 11, 2019]).
  13. ↑ «We live so normally». In: annabelle . October 20, 2017, accessed November 30, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Katja Kullmann: "I like it when you are shaved". In: Katja Kullmann. December 3, 2017, accessed November 30, 2018 (conversation with Simone Meier and Patricia Hempel).
  15. ↑ Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (March 3, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5th 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne