Tim Krohn

Tim Krohn (born February 9, 1965 in Wiedenbrück , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a writer living in Switzerland . 2009, the city gave him Zurich , the Swiss citizenship , since he is German-Swiss citizen.

Life

Tim Krohn (* 1965) has lived in Switzerland since 1966. He grew up in Glarus . From 1984 to 1992 he studied German , philosophy and political science and now lives as a freelance writer in Santa Maria Val Müstair with his wife and three children . He is the author of prose texts , dramas and radio plays .

Tim Krohn is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland . From 1998 to 2001 he was President of the predecessor organization, the Swiss Writers' Association. He received the following awards, among others: the UNDA Radio Prize in 1993 , the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize in 1994, a single work prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation in 1998 , and in 2007 he and Vrenelis Gärtli won the choice for the best Swiss book and received Anne prizes for the same work -Marie Schindler Foundation, from the city and canton of Zurich. In 2011 he received the Culture Prize of the Canton of Glarus. He wrote the stage template for the Einsiedler Welttheater in 2013.

At the invitation of Juri Steiner , Tim Krohn took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2015.

Also in 2015, Tim Krohn started the crowdfunding project “Menschliche Stungen”. The first volume of the resulting novel series was published in 2017.

Tim Krohn also writes detective novels under the pseudonym Gian Maria Calonder. The first was published in 2018 under the title Engadine abysses , and Endstation Engadin will appear in autumn 2019 .

Works

Books

• with Jürgen Zumbrunnen (drawings): Free! And dead . Festival not listed: 600 years of the Näfeles Battle for liberation struggle, freedom and violence. Tschudi, Glarus 1988, DNB 210844876 .
• Fist . Novel. Edition Herbstz, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-906370-11-9 .
• Surfer . Pieces: Age of the Donkey . Edition Herbstz, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-906370-13-5
• The swan in pieces . Ammann, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-250-10211-3 .
• Three penny cabinet . Novel. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-8218-0652-4 .
• Quatember children and how the Vreneli made the glaciers well . Novel. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1998; Diogenes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-23961-4 .
• Irina's book of frivolous love . Novel. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2000; Diogenes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-23963-8 .
• Bees, queens, swans in pieces . Book + CD . Engler, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-905591-46-4 .
• The invention of the world (with Elisa Ortega ). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8218-0727-X .
• Homesickness . Stories. Mare, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-936384-18-5 .
• Vrenelis Gärtli . Novel. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2007; Diogenes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-23962-1 .
• Why the earth is round. 111 creation myths . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-5839-5 .
• To the sea . Novel. Galiani, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86971-002-0
• Plato's Cave (with Lika Nüssli). SJW (issue 2320), Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7269-0550-7 .
• with Lika Nüssli (illustrations): The Cloud Cuckoo Country, based loosely on the play "The Birds" by Aristophanes . Swiss Youth Writings Foundation SJW (Issue 2360), Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7269-0570-5 ; French : Coucouville-les-nuées , ISBN 978-3-7269-0571-2 .
• The spirit on the mountain . Galiani, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86971-022-8 .
• From the life of a mattress of the highest quality . Galiani, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86971-088-4 .
• At night in Vals . Galiani, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86971-116-4 .
• Mr. Brechbühl is looking for a cat . (Human Emotions, Volume 1). Galiani, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86971-147-8 .
• Erich Wyss practices free fall . (Human Emotions, Volume 2). Galiani, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86971-151-5 .
• Julia Sommer sows . (Human Emotions, Volume 3). Galiani, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86971-171-3 .
• Engadine abysses (under the pseudonym Gian Maria Calonder). Kampa, Zurich & Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-31112-003-2

Plays

• Surfer . Premiere: December 10, 1991, Komedie Theater Zurich
• Age of the donkey . Premiere: February 14, 1992, Limit Theater Zurich
• The apocalyptic show of the four rivers of Manhattan . Premiere: March 25, 1995, State Theater Mainz
• The swan in pieces . Premiere: September 22, 1995, Schauspiel Köln
• Polly . Premiere: February 11, 1998, Stadttheater Koblenz
• Revolution with a dog . Premiere: May 14, 1998, Schauspiel Akademie Zürich
• Revolution with a dog, the second . WP: Workshop performances in May 1999 in the TiK of the Thalia Theater Hamburg
• The queen bee . Premiere: 2000, Theater am Neumarkt Zurich
• Shakespeare Love Songs . Premiere: 2001 Shakespeare Company Berlin
• Crime and Punishment . Premiere: 2001 Theater am Neumarkt Zurich
• Quatember children . Premiere: 2006 Theater Glarus
• Snow white . WP: 2008 Tocha-Compagnie St. Gallen *
• Vehsturz , WP : 2013 Landscape Theater Ballenberg
• Einsiedler Welttheater , premiere: 2013 Welttheatergesellschaft Einsiedeln
• Ueli der Knecht (dramatization) ', WP: 2015 Landschaftstheater Ballenberg
• Ueli der Lächter , WP: 2016 Landscape Theater Ballenberg

literature

• Brigitte Marschall : Tim Krohn . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1038.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tim Krohn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tim Krohn's own website
• Entry about Tim Krohn in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Glarner Kulturpreis goes to Tim Krohn on the SF Tagesschau website .
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.