Stephan Mathys

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Stephan Mathys (2018)

Stephan Mathys (born August 24, 1968 in Menziken , Canton Aargau ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

As the third son of a family of bakers, Stephan Mathys spent his childhood and youth in Schöftland / Aargau. After graduating from high school in Aarau in 1988, he attended the higher educational college in Zofingen . From 1990 he worked as a teacher and devoted himself increasingly to writing. From 1984 to 1994 he was a member of the management collective of the small theater Härdöpfuchäuer ('potato cellar ') in Schöftland. From 1993 to 1997 he was co-initiator and culture editor of the Aargau monthly newspaper ASpekt , from 1995 to 1997 a columnist for the satirical magazine Nebelspalter . In 1996 he moved to Bern and worked in the cooperative neighborhood shop Matte Lädeli until 2001 . After graduating in 1997, he worked as an art therapist in the Südhang Clinic, Kirchlindach, from 1999 (until today) . From 2002 to 2007 Mathys taught as a lecturer at the Institute for Art Therapy in Bern; Since 2005 he's seminar leader at the Institute of Arbeitsagogik in Lucerne .

From 2003 to 2006 Mathys was a member of the jury for the Radio Play Prize of the Basel Radio Foundation . He is a member of the Professional Association of Creative Psychotherapy and Art Therapy (GPK) and of the Association of Authors of Switzerland (AdS). For his literary work he has received grants and grants from the canton of Aargau and the city and canton of Bern. In 2004, together with his partner, the singer and singing teacher Rachel Maria Kessler, he founded the artistic production group Spielraum 7 in Bern.

Create

Stephan Mathys is the author of radio plays (including for DRS1 / SRF1 ), plays , shorter and longer prose , song texts and poems . Since 2003 he has been writing texts for live radio plays, and since 2011 for the vernissages of the painter Raoul Ris, among others . He also writes for stage productions with musicians and actors and cooperates with visual artists.

The preferred subject of Mathys radio plays, theater plays and narrative texts is the confrontation of everyday reality with unrealistic imaginations and experiences. In his first larger book, the short story book Vor dem Fenster , published in 2018 , he stages “with a precise, poetic eye for the little things of everyday life and the intricacies of interpersonal relationships”, “ingenious play (s) with fiction”, whereby the protagonists of the stories must constantly recognize: “You imagine your life, have your dreams, big and small, and you see reality, which is completely different.” As an established radio play and theater author, Mathys leads the characters on his 'narrative stage' to surprising encounters the 'impossible', the 'wonderful', which rigorously questions the order of life of the actors.

Awards

  • 2002: Grant from the Aargau Board of Trustees (six-month studio stay in Berlin, October 2003 to March 2004)
  • 2006: Contribution from the city of Bern
  • 2007: Contribution from the Aargau Board of Trustees
  • 2010: Project mentoring by the Swiss Literature Institute
  • 2016: Contribution from the city and canton of Bern

Works

Radio plays

  • Whale in the garden pond (live radio play 2003)
  • Shouldn't the moon shine brighter (live radio play 2003)
  • Snow in May (radio play; CD 2006)
  • Mann im Mond (live radio play 2007; DRS1 2008 )
  • De Käpt'n, d Cinderella and I ( DRS1 2011 )
  • Resin standstill ( DRS1 2011 )
  • Kafi Royal ( DRS1 2013 )
  • Without di (live radio play; CD 2013)
  • The woman in front of the picture (live radio play trilogy 2015)
  • Frienisberg (live radio play 2016)
  • Zwei im Zug (live radio play 2017)
  • Everything for d'Chatz ( SRF1 2018 )
  • Drü Länke ( SRF1 2019 )

Plays / stage productions

  • Bachmann (2003)
  • Of Dragons and Meerkats (2003)
  • ARG! (Pictures / texts project with Sabine Trüb, 2004)
  • Jump (a story with music, 2004)
  • öbilachodersing - Thirteen old Swiss songs and a new legend from the Mittelland (2004; CD 2008)
  • In the rickshaw / taxi stories (2005)
  • The Invasion of the Frizzy Calabrese (2007)
  • Monks, scrap and starches (2009)
  • All is well (2015)
  • Belinda (music comic strip, 2016)

prose

  • Children's game / fish (in: Lauter Nobody. Literature magazine, Berlin 2004, pp. 16–18, 22–25)
  • Taxi Stories (in: No Man's Land. New German Literature in English Translation. Translation by Katy Derbyshire. Berlin 2006, pp. 14–24)
  • Archive (anthology article in Alois and Auguste. Alzheimer and Dementia - stories about forgetting. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7193-1514-6 , pp. 243–246)
  • Where the lines touch (text about the painter Hannes Egli. Edition neue Galerie 6, Aarau 2009, pp. 31–57)
  • Scene / Mappamondo (in: Bernsehen 2. Dachsart, Bern 2013, pp. 39f., 138–140)
  • In my last moment (in: orte literary magazine (Schwellbrunn). No. 178, July 2014, p. 27f.)
  • Ernst (anthology contribution in blueprint. Stories of falling and getting up. Klinik Südhang, Kirchlindach 2016, pp. 22-27)
  • that he takes his time. Conversations about Hannes Egli (edition clandestin, Biel-Bienne 2016, ISBN 978-3-905297-80-5 , pp. 9–59)
  • November night. Dialogic stories with pictures v. Raoul Ris (Rub Media, Bern 2016)
  • In front of the window. Stories ( edition 8 , Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85990-348-7 )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the Härdöpfuchäuer small theater cf. http://haerdoepfuchaeuer.ch/ ; accessed on August 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ On the Südhang Clinic, cf. https://www.suedhang.ch/de/ ; accessed on August 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ See https://www.sfgb-b.ch/ ; accessed on August 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ See http://www.institut-arbeitsagogik.ch/de ; accessed on August 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ See https://www.gpk-verband.net/ ; accessed on August 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ See http://www.spielraum7.ch ; accessed on August 27, 2019.
  7. ↑ On Raoul Ris cf. https://dachsart.ch/dachsart_2015/ ; accessed on August 27, 2019.
  8. ↑ Hartmut Vollmer: The fifth wall. Stephan Mathys: In front of the window. In: Literarischer Month (Zurich), No. 35, December 2018 – February 2019, p. 41 ( https://literarischermonat.ch/stephan-mathys-vor-dem-fenster/ ; accessed on August 27, 2019).
  9. ^ Stephan Mathys: In front of the window. Stories. Zurich 2018, p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Mathys, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Menziken , Canton of Aargau