Urs Schaub

Urs Schaub (born April 18, 1951 in Basel ) is a Swiss director and writer .

Life

Urs Schaub first studied German, art history and philosophy in Basel and Zurich. He broke off his studies and then attended the Zurich Acting Academy . From 1979 he worked as a freelance director in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. From 1992 to 1996 he was director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt . This was followed by teaching assignments at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In the 1999/2000 season he led the drama at the Stadttheater Bern together with Nicola May , and from 2003 to 2008 he was director of the Basel barracks . From 2006 to 2010 he also worked for the Swiss Television Literature Club.

Schaub has published four crime novels so far . Their main character is - in the "tradition" of Glauser's Wachtmeister Studer and Dürrenmatts Bärlach - the commissioner Simon Tanner from the Bernese Seeland .

In 2014 he also published My Father's Laughing with stories from his childhood.

Works

• Tanner. Pendo , Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85842-565-6 ; Piper , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24212-X .
• The law of water. Pendo, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-86612-078-8 ; Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-25004-7 .
• Winter deaf death. Pendo, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86612-178-2 ; Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25729-9 .
• The salamander. Limmat , Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85791-684-7 .
• My father's laughter. Childhood stories. With illustrations by Sebastian Schaub. Limmat, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85791-754-7 .

literature

• Regula Reidhaar: Urs Schaub . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1585.

Web links

• Literature by and about Urs Schaub in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Urs Schaub in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Urs Schaub at krimi-couch.de