About Matthias Zschokke
Born 1954. Matthias Zschokke is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, writer, playwright, author and actor.
Matthias Zschokke (29 October 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.
He has written nine volumes of prose, eight plays, and three films.
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 Max. Roman. München: Ullstein, 1982 Prinz Hans. Roman. München 1984; Ullstein, 1987, ErSieEs. Roman. München 1986 Piraten. Roman. Frankfurt am Main: Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 1991, Der dicke Dichter. Roman. Bruckner & Thünker, Basel/Köln 1995 Das lose Glück. Roman. Ammann Verlag, Zürich, 1999 Ein neuer Nachbar. Erzählungen. Ammann, Zürich 2002, Maurice mit Huhn. Roman. Ammann, Zürich 2006, paperback edition: Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, Auf Reisen. Erzählung. Ammann, Zürich 2008, Lieber Niels. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, Der Mann mit den zwei Augen. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, Die strengen Frauen von Rosa Salva. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, Die Wolken waren groß und weiß und zogen da oben hin. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, Ein Sommer mit Proust. Wallstein, Göttingen, 2017,
Theatre 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 Edvige Scimitt, 1985 Der wilde Mann, 1988 Erhöhte Waldbrandgefahr, 1996
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Swiss writer (born 1954)
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Matthias Zschokke was born on 29 October 1954 in Bern.
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Matthias Zschokke is a film director, screenwriter, writer, playwright, author and actor.
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