Maja Beutler

Maja Beutler ( born December 8, 1936 in Bern ) is a Swiss writer.

Life

Maja Beutler grew up in Bern. She worked as a translator after she had completed the Dolmetscherschule Zurich. She also completed several study visits to France, England and Italy. 1976 Maja Beutler joined with the story collection Flushing missing on the map to the public. 1983/84 she worked as a house writer at the Stadttheater Bern and worked also for years as a freelancer for Swiss Radio DRS. It is one of the few Swiss playwrights in Germany. Today she lives in Bern.

Awards

  • Book Prize of the City of Bern ( 1976/1980/1984 )
  • Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation (1983 )
  • Welti Award for Drama (1985 )
  • Literature Prize of the City of Bern (1988 )

Works

Epik

  • Flushing missing on the map. Stories. Clock Tower, Gümligen 1976, ISBN 3-7296-0051-6
  • Gain a foothold. Novel. Clock Tower, Gümligen 1980, ISBN 3-7296-0111-3
  • The word trap. Novel. Benziger, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-545-36364-3
  • The portrait of Doña Quixote. Narratives. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-312-00144-7
  • The hour as we learn to fly. Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-312-00198-6
  • Black snow. Tales & The album of the Signora. Clock Tower, Oberhofen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7296-0782-8
  • I live for a long time now. Text 1973 to 2013. Zytglogge, Oberhofen, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7296-0870-2

Collected Radio texts in book form

  • Wärchtig. Texts to the new day. Clock Tower, Gümligen 1985
  • Both. Texts to the new day. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1991
  • Tagwärts. New radio texts in German and Swiss German. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1996

Dramas

  • The Blue Law, premiere 1979
  • The dream ballet libretto, first performance 1980
  • The Marmelspiel, premiere 1985
  • Lady Macbeth 's hands no longer washes, premiere 1994

Radio features

  • I have dared. Walter Mehring, as he writes and lives, 1978
  • There is no turning back. Commemorative show for Walter Mehring, 1981
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