Verena Keller (writer)
Verena Keller (* 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss actress and writer .
Life
Verena Keller is the daughter of the Marxist psychologist and publicist Franz Keller . After her acting training at the Zurich stage studio , she worked as an actress in the German Democratic Republic from 1967 . At the end of the 1970s she returned to Switzerland, where she worked as an actress, cultural journalist and language teacher. In 1986, Keller played the director of the asylum center in Bernard Safarik's feature film The Cold Paradise .
In her novel Silvester in der Milchbar , published in 2014 by the past publishing house , she describes her time as an actress especially in Quedlinburg . Among other things, she was not recruited by the Ministry of State Security and presented human socialism as an illusion.
Your Roman Papi, where are you? , which appeared in 2015 in the past publishing house, deals with her father Franz Keller, who as a Swiss communist left his wife and daughter in 1945 to get involved in building the German Democratic Republic. In 2017, she published her travel report about a motorcycle tour on Route 66 from Los Angeles to Chicago in the USA, LA is calling .
Works
- Contribution in: Peter Arnold et al .: Zwüschehalt: 13 experience reports from the Swiss New Left. Rotpunktverlag , Zurich 1979, OCLC 600534727 .
- Contribution to: Genossenschaft Schauspiel-Akademie Zürich : 50 years of the Schauspiel-Akademie Zürich: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Schauspiel-Akademie Zürich (SAZ). 1987, OCLC 80899756 .
- New Year's Eve in the milk bar. Narrative. Past Publishing , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86408-062-3 .
- Daddy where are you Novel. Past Publishing, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86408-191-0 .
- LA is calling. Omnino Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95894-036-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Verena Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Verena Keller's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography on Verena Keller's website
- ↑ Mike La Marr (moderation), Peter Bollag (editor): Verena Keller: As a Swiss woman voluntarily in the GDR. In: Radio SRF 1 . September 27, 2015.
- ↑ Helmuth Zipperlen: Verena Keller between the DRR and Solothurn. In: az Solothurn newspaper . February 28, 2013.
- ↑ Al'Leu : Ideals of the Early Years. In: word . No. 38, August 2013, pp. 53–55 (PDF; 260 kB).
- ↑ Al'Leu: Reconstruction of the father image. In: word. No. 44, 2015, pp. 47–48 (PDF; 122 kB).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Verena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keller, Verena Regina (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss actress and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |