Werner Rohner

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Werner Rohner (* 1975 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Werner Rohner was born in Zurich in 1975. After studying philosophy , German and film studies in Zurich and Vienna , he worked as a secretary, sports journalist and film reviewer. In 2012 he completed his studies in “literary writing” at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. In 2014 his first novel The End of the Closed Season was published by Lenos Verlag . In 2018, together with Katja Brunner, he published the questionnaire How far are you genetically from the predator . In 2020 his new novel will be published: WHAT IS POSSIBLE .

Awards and grants

  • 2019 working year of the city of Zurich for “What is possible”
  • 2018/19 graduate of the «Drama Processor» from Theater an der Winkelwiese
  • 2016 Lydia Eymann scholarship
  • 2015 Shortlist of the Rauris Literature Prize for "The End of the Closed Season"
  • 2014 working year of the city of Zurich for “The end of the closed season”
  • 2014 contribution from the canton of St. Gallen for "The end of the closed season"
  • 2012/2013 membri of the Istituto Svizzero in Rome
  • 2012 Work grant from the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia for “The end of the closed season”
  • 2008 scholarship from the author's workshop Prosa 2008 of the Literary Colloquium Berlin
  • 2006 scholarship holder of the 10th Klagenfurt Literature Course 2006
  • 2003/4 scholarship for the three-part seminar textwerk for novelists 2003/4 at the Literaturhaus München

Works

Anthologies and journals (selection)

  • What can you not take from home? , together with Katja Brunner, in the NZZ Folio , Zurich 2019
  • Do you want to change your gender? , together with Katja Brunner, NZZ , Zurich 2018
  • Extraterritorial in “Human Rights. Continue writing », Salis Verlag , Zurich 2018
  • Love letter I'd like to have your face (in: Die Zeit from August 30, 2016) / also published in: Since then, I've been thinking of you all the time: special love letters . Die Zeit (ed.), Arche Verlag 2017, ISBN 3-7160-2761-8 .
  • Part of a big one in Le Phare No. 2/2013 (Paris)
  • Once again in liesette littéraire No. 1/2011 (Biel)
  • The sea at the end of the street in SIC No. 4/2010 (Aachen)
  • Tagwerk on DRS 2 in the program line skips (2010)
  • Eye color closed in Language in the Technical Age No. 234/2009 (Berlin)
  • Lessons in megalomania in dipl. Poeta, an anthology by the AdS 2007
  • Collected prejudices in traces of life, an anthology by the Literaturhaus Zürich 2006
  • After something happened in «POETRY SLAM 2003/2004», ed. v. Hartmut Pospiech and Tina Uebel, Rotbuch Verlag , Hamburg 2003
  • Sunday is an exception in designs no. 31/2002 (Zurich)

Translations

  • Fin de Trêve . Translated into French by Ghislain Riccardi, original title: The end of the closed season , Éditions de l'Aire, Vevey, 2017, ISBN 978-2-9405-8664-6 .

Plays

  • Go get lost , world premiere at the Istituto Romania di Roma (performance in collaboration with Anne Rochat and Benoit Bilotte), 2013
  • Copy - a stage thriller , world premiere at Theaterhaus Kaserne Basel , 2004 (resumption 2005)
  • Sneak Preview , world premiere at Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich (as part of the “Hope and Glory” festival), 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Website of the literature commission of the city of Zurich
  2. ^ [2] Website of the Lydia Eymann Foundation
  3. ^ [3] Website of the Rauris Literature Days
  4. ^ [4] Website of the City of Zurich Literature Commission
  5. ↑ Contribution to the work of St. Gallen 2014, press release Canton St. Gallen, June 27, 2014
  6. ^ [5] Residenze Istituto Svizzero di Roma
  7. ↑ [6] Pro Helvetia press release, May 16, 2012
  8. ↑ Love letter to Benicio del Toro, Zeit Online August 30, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Rohner, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich