Matthias Zschokke

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Matthias Zschokke
Born (1954-10-29) 29 October 1954 (age 69)
Bern, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Occupation(s)Writer and filmmaker

Matthias Zschokke (October 29, 1954

Bern, Switzerland
) is a Swiss writer and filmmaker.

Life

He attended drama school at the Schauspielschule Bochum. Since 1980, he has been living as a writer and filmmaker in Berlin.[1][2]

He has written nine volumes of prose, eight plays, and three films.[3]

Awards

  • 1981 Robert Walser Prize of the city and canton of Bern, for Max
  • 1983 scholarship from the German Literature Fund
  • 1986 Award of the German Film Critics for Best Feature Film Edvige Scimitt
  • 1989 election of the Theater Today magazine for the best young playwright
  • 1989 Berne Film Award for the movie The Wild Man
  • 1991 Award of the Hans-Erich-Nossack price
  • 1992 Gerhart Hauptmann Prize for The alphabets
  • 1994 Award for The Rich Friend
  • 1995 Award of the
    Goethe Institute
    for the alphabets
  • 1996 Aargauer Literature
  • 2000 Literature Prize of the City of Bern
  • 2002 Award of the German-language literature Commission Bern
  • 2002 Swiss Schiller Foundation, individual works prize
  • 2006 Solothurner Literaturpreis
  • 2006 Swiss Schiller Foundation individual works prize
  • 2006 Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern
  • 2009 Prix Femina Étranger

Works

Prose

Theater

  • Elefanten können nicht in die Luft springen, weil sie zu dick sind – oder wollen sie nicht. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1983 (UA Berlin 1986)
  • Brut. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1986 (UA Bonn 1988)
  • Die Alphabeten. Kiepenheuer, Berlin: Kiepenheuer-Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH, 1990; (UA Bern 1994)
  • Der reiche Freund. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1994 (UA Hannover 1995)
  • Die Exzentrischen. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1997, Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH
  • Die Einladung. Kiepenheuer, Berlin: Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH, 2000; (UA Genf 2006)
  • Die singende Kommissarin. Kiepenheuer, Berlin, Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH, 2001; (UA Berlin 2002)
  • Raghadan. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2005 (unaufgeführt)

Films

References