Urs Berner

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Urs Berner 2009 in New York

Urs Berner (born April 17, 1944 in Schafisheim ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Urs Berner comes from a farming family in a small village in the Aargau Seetal . He attended the district school in nearby Seon and then the Wettingen teacher training college . He then served as a primary school teacher working and then spent several semesters studying history at the University of Zurich . He later worked as a domestic editor for a Swiss daily newspaper, then lived as a journalist in London before settling in Zurich as a freelance writer . Urs Berner has lived and worked in Bern since 1983 and writes novels and short stories.

Berner traveled a lot and stayed for longer stays in France , Spain , Great Britain , Italy , Portugal , the Czech Republic , Ireland and South America . One of his main themes is to gain a foothold with one's own roots in the near and far foreign countries. He is a storyteller who accompanies idiosyncratic characters with loving and precise sympathy, be it in the village , in the big city , in the shopping center , in the cultural center or on the island . The rich worlds of fantasy mix with the atmosphere of a precisely observed reality.

Awards

  • 1980 Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
  • 1980 working year for the city of Zurich
  • 1985 1st prize in the short story competition of the Swiss Writers' Association
  • 1990 contribution from the Binz Foundation with a stay at the Tyrone Guthrie Center Annamakherrig Ireland
  • 2000 work contribution from the Aargauer Kuratorium with a stay in Prague
  • 2002 residency grant from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
  • 2005 atelier guest at the Literaturhaus Krems, Lower Austria

Works

Original editions

  • Somersault backwards. Sauerländer, Aarau 1972, ISBN 3-7941-0145-6 .
  • The afternoon in the room. Stories. Sauerländer, Aarau 1975, ISBN 3-7941-1438-8 .
  • Friedrich's lonely dreams in the city by the river. Sauerländer, Aarau 1977, ISBN 3-7941-1546-5 .
  • Contribution in: Pack your things in a container and come: 7 Swiss authors meet Israel. Travel notes. Edition Erpf, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-256-00008-8 .
  • Escape routes. Novel. Steinhausen, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-8205-5822-5 .
  • Desired times. Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-545-36412-7 .
  • The wonder of Dublin. Stories. Benziger, Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-545-36454-2 .
  • The lottery kings. Novel. Edition Erpf bei Neptun, Kreuzlingen 1989, ISBN 3-256-00118-1 .
  • Contribution in: Henrik Rhyn: «Gasthausschildereien». Literary notes on paper napkins by fifteen Swiss authors. Edition Erpf, Bern 1989, ISBN 3-905517-07-8 .
  • The guest. In: The great reader of Switzerland. Goldmann TB, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-42056-3 .
  • The writer's terrible and enjoyable solitude , In the museum. In: Herbert Herzmann (Ed.): Literary criticism and narrative practice: German-speaking narrators of the present. Conference files of the international symposium University College Dublin, 14. – 16. February 1993. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-86057-134-6 ( Stauffenburg Colloquium. Vol. 34).
  • Irish maze. Novel. Neptun, Kreuzlingen, 2004, ISBN 3-85820-203-7 .
  • De Vatter and sini Ross. In: Peter Gros, Alfred Schaffner, Frieda Vogt (ed.): Undereinisch: Gschechte i de Muetersproch. CD with 8 dialect stories by Aargau authors spoken by Peter Fischli with music by Barbara Schirmer. M + Art, Brugg, 2004.
  • Cell phone stories. In: Wolfgang Kühn (Ed.): TOP 22: The only way is up… Part 2. Edition Aramo, Krems 2005, ISBN 978-3-9501852-8-7 .
  • Sky game. Novel. Neptun, Kreuzlingen 2006, ISBN 3-85820-208-8 .
  • It hurts to get a foothold. Novel. Neptun, Kreuzlingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-85820-305-2 .
  • Tschogglit - and eleven other subtleties. Neptun, Kreuzlingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-85820-310-6 .
  • The second shock. Novel. Neptun, Interlaken 2017, ISBN 978-3-85820-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Berner, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Schafisheim