Werner Wüthrich

Werner Wüthrich (2004)

Werner Wüthrich (born June 14, 1947 in Ittigen ( BE )) is a Swiss writer , playwright and Brecht researcher .

Life

Werner Wüthrich was born into a farming family; After primary and secondary school in Ittigen and Bolligen , he graduated from the natural science high school in Bern in 1967 . In the following four years he studied theater studies , German literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna and finished his studies in 1974 with the dissertation Bertolt Brecht's admission to Switzerland .

Werner Wüthrich has been working as a freelance playwright and writer since 1972. For his work he was honored with several awards for his commitment to “inciting language” and for his complete work, including the Doron Prize in 2004 .

Werner Wüthrich has worked as a playwright, production dramaturge and dramaturgical advisor at the Theater am Neumarkt Zurich , the Dramatic Center Vienna , the Theater 1230 Bern and the Deutsches Theater Berlin . From 1985 to 2001 Wüthrich was a member of the jury for the literary prize “Work and Everyday Life”, member of the board of the “ Olten Group ” and from 1996 to 2002 President of the Schlachthaus Theater Bern.

Awards

• Literature Prize City of Bern (1970)
• Literature Prize Canton of Bern (1981)
• Work year city of Zurich (1973)
• State grant Dramatic Center Vienna (1975)
• First prize for the drama, Literar-Mechana Vienna (1986)
• First prize for the best folk piece, BGVT Switzerland (1987)
• Membro Istituto Svizzero, Rome
• Work year of the Pro Helvetia Zurich Cultural Foundation (1988/89)
• Doron Prize for Complete Works and Writing Workshops (2004).

Works

Wüthrich, with his prose Landflucht (1979), Vom Land (1990), Die they called Bauern (2009) and Frauen Land Frauen (2011), is considered a pioneer of a new peasant literature in the German-speaking world. He is also one of the internationally renowned exile literature and Brecht researchers. In addition to numerous publications with a focus on exile theater and Bertolt Brecht, Wüthrich is active as a lecturer and curator of exhibitions and as a scientific advisory board.

prose

• From land. Reports. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-293-000118 .
• Emil Zbinden. Testimonials and photo documents. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85791-568-0 .
• They called farmers. On the myth and survival of our agriculture. Huber Verlag, Frauenfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7193-1526-9 .
• Women country women. With pictures by Carmela Ordoni. Huber Verlag, Frauenfeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7193-1568-9 .

Dramas, radio plays, film scripts

• Henzi. Historic, but not very. Bern 1972; A deplorable original Swiss story - The Samuel Henzi case. Swiss Radio DRS, 1972.
• Hikes. Swiss Radio DRS, 1972 / The withdrawal. ORF Vienna 1974.
• Where injustice becomes right. Vienna, Theater Zwentendorf, 1977.
• From annoyance to classic. Swiss Radio DRS, 1978.
• Rural exodus. Swiss television, Zurich 1979 and Theater Thun, 1984.
• Motocross. Theater 1230 Bern, 1980.
• The Gnomes of. Theater Neumarkt Zurich, 1986.
• Stop on demand. Folk piece. Theater Hottwil, Aargau, 1987.
• The successful ones. A monologue cycle. Theater 1230 Bern, 1988.
• Good day, everyday life. Schlachthaus Theater Bern, 1989.
• Dallenbach or The War of the Normal. Theater 1230 Bern, 1990.
• Almost night. A comedy of neutrality. Bern and Zurich, 1991.
• To the white cross. A piece of the people. Schlachthaus Theater Bern, 1992.
• MMM or corporate identity. Munich and Nuremberg Municipal Theaters, 1993.
• Ventricle. A piece of gold. Munich and Swiss Radio DRS, 1993.
• Happy. A monodrama. Bern 1997.
• Lioba Lioba. Guard Abe lyt e Chue i dr Luft! Hof-Theater and Zurich, 2007.
• Stupid and fat. Theater 1231 Bern, 2012.
• Koloman Wallisch (after Bertolt Brecht). Innsbruck and Vienna, 2012 and 2014.

Publications on Brecht research

• Bertolt Brecht's admission to Switzerland 1923-1969. Vienna, 1974.
• The world premiere at the Zurich Schauspielhaus (1943). Frankfurt / M., 1982.
• In the beginning there was a misunderstanding. Lucerne, 1998.
• Bertolt Brecht and Switzerland. Monograph. Chronos Verlag Zurich, 2003.
• The miracle of Bern. The interrogation of Lukullus, May 1940. Bern, 2003.
• Brecht suitcase discoverer Werner Wüthrich on the good author and bad communist Bertolt Brecht. Zurich, 2004.
• New finds in Switzerland. Augsburg, 2004.
• Anyone who does not have a passport is a dog. Film by Bruno Moll. Zurich, 2004.
• "Hello, dear Brecht ...". Charles Laughton demonstrates epic theater. Zurich, 2006.
• The drumming, death and breaking. Brecht at the Carnival in Basel in 1949. Augsburg, 2006.
• 1948 Brecht's fateful year in Zurich. Chronos Verlag Zurich, 2006. / Zurich 1948 - L'annee destin de Brecht. Translation by Daniel Frey, Corinne Duvoisin, with a foreword by Jean Ziegler. Genève, 2007.
• “I've had terrible weeks behind me”. Wuppertal, 2007.
• Bertolt Brecht aujourd'hui. Genève, 2007.
• About exile and Switzerland as a country of exile - About the foreign and the familiar. Munich, 2007.
• News from Mr. Brecht. Bertolt Brecht and Austria. Vienna, 2007.
• Brecht's city apartment in Zurich - a well-kept secret. Augsburg, 2009.
• "... that there is a happy international of art". Brecht, Austria and the theater. Vienna, 2010.
• "Imagine it's war ...". On Brecht's fragment of the “Koloman Wallisch Cantata”. Innsbruck, 2012.
• Bertolt Brecht's Antigone: An Experimental Theater Work. Zurich, 2015.

literature

• Stefan Hulfeld : Werner Wüthrich . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 2125.

Web links

• www.wwuethrich.ch - own website
• Literature by and about Werner Wüthrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Werner Wüthrich in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry about Werner Wüthrich ( memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Bernese Writers' Association