Gertrud Leutenegger
{{Short description|German-speaking Swiss poet, novelist, playwright and theatre director}}
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Gertrud Leutenegger (born 1948) is a German-speaking Swiss poet, novelist, playwright and theatre director.Böttcher, Kurt, et al., eds., Lexikon deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller 20. Jahrhundert. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1993, p. 476. {{ISBN|3-487-09611-0}}
Life
Gertrud Leutenegger was born and grew up in Schwyz, Switzerland, where her father was a book editor. She later lived in both the Italian-speaking and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. After completing her secondary education she initially undertook teacher training and became a Kindergarten teacher. She also worked in a psychiatric clinic for a time and was as a custodian at the Nietzsche House in Sils Maria.{{Cite web|url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Gertrud+Leutenegger/0/16526.html|title=Gertrud Leutenegger – Munzinger Biographie|last=Ravensburg|first=Munzinger-Archiv GmbH|website=www.munzinger.de|language=de|access-date=6 March 2017}}
Leutenegger's interest in theatre led to drama studies at the Zürich University of the Arts from 1976 to 1979 where she studied director's theatre (Regietheater). She worked as assistant producer to Jürgen Flimm, a noted exponent of Regietheater, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, in 1978. In the same year, she was awarded the prestigious Jury Prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her early literary work. Many other prizes and distinctions followed.{{Cite web|url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/lv/prj/uae/zgl/leu/bio/deindex.htm|title=Übersetzen als Kulturaustausch – Leutenegger, Gertrud – Biografie – Goethe-Institut|website=www.goethe.de|language=de|access-date=6 March 2017}}
After short spells in Florence and Berlin, Leutenegger lived for a long time in Japan. She now lives in Zürich. In 2010 she was elected to the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt.
Work
Leutenegger first came to prominence as a poet, later bringing her poetic vision to her novels, the first of which, Vorabend, was published in 1975. Her work is noted for its subjective vision, use of myth and fairy tale, dreams and poetry. There is also a strong element of political engagement, for example in the 1985 novel Kontinent which deals with issues of environmental damage.
Leutenegger's most recently published work was the novel Panischer Frühling. This tells the story of a woman stranded in London when the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 brought all air-traffic to a sudden halt. This was shortlisted for both the Swiss Book Prize and the German Book Prize in 2014 and was awarded the Roswitha Prize in the same year.{{Cite web|url=http://www.suhrkamp.de/news/gertrud_leutenegger_erhaelt_roswitha-preis_2265.html|title=Newsmeldung – Suhrkamp Insel|website=www.suhrkamp.de|access-date=6 March 2017}}
Selected awards
- 1978 Jury Prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- 1979 Droste-Preis
- 1986 Schweizerischen Schillerstiftung Prize
- 1999 Innerschweizer Kulturpreis
- 2009 Schillerpreis der Zürcher Kantonalbank: for Matutin
- 2014 Shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize: for Panischer Frühling{{Cite web|url=http://www.suhrkamp.de/news/gertrud_leutenegger_und_heinz_helle_auf_der_shortlist_des_schweizer_buchpreises_2248.html|title=Newsmeldung – Suhrkamp Insel|website=www.suhrkamp.de|access-date=6 March 2017}}
- 2014 Shortlisted for the German Book Prize for Panischer Frühling{{Cite web|url=http://www.suhrkamp.de/news/shortlist_des_deutschen_buchpreises_2243.html|title=Newsmeldung – Suhrkamp Insel|website=www.suhrkamp.de|access-date=6 March 2017}}
- 2014 Roswitha-Preis awarded by the town of Bad Gandersheim for Panischer Frühling
Works
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |title=Vorabend: Roman |publisher=Suhrkamp |publication-place=Frankfurt am Main |date=1980 |isbn=3-518-37142-8 |oclc=8151033 |language=de}}
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 |title=Ninive: Roman |publisher=Suhrkamp |publication-place=Frankfurt am Main |date=1977 |isbn=3-518-03536-3 |oclc=3190000}}
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 |title=Lebewohl, gute Reise : ein dramatisches Poem |publisher=Suhrkamp |publication-place=Frankfurt am Main |date=1980 |isbn=3-518-11001-2 |oclc=6981931 |language=de}}
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 |title=Wie in Salomons Garten: Gedichte |publisher=Eremiten-Presse |publication-place=Düsseldorf |date=1981 |isbn=3-87365-162-9 |oclc=7864812 |language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Leutenegger | first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 | title=Gouverneur | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=1981 | isbn=3-518-03534-7 | oclc=8054393 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Leutenegger | first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 | title=Komm ins Schiff | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=1989 | isbn=3-518-38199-7 | oclc=23749546 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Leutenegger | first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 | title=Kontinent | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=1991 | isbn=978-3-518-38369-8 | oclc=75209771 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Leutenegger | first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 | title=Das verlorene Monument | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=1985 | isbn=3-518-11315-1 | oclc=12634105 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Leutenegger | first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 | title=Meduse | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=1988 | isbn=3-518-02273-3 | oclc=19554286 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Leutenegger | first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 | title=Acheron | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=1994 | isbn=3-518-40577-2 | oclc=30336330 | language=de}}
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 |last2=Bättig |first2=Ester |title=Sphärenklang: Dramatisches Poem |publisher=Eremiten-Presse |publication-place=Düsseldorf |date=1999 |isbn=3-87365-306-0 |oclc=47803788 |language=de}}
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 |title=Pomona: Roman |publisher=Suhrkamp |publication-place=Frankfurt am Main |date=2004 |isbn=3-518-41603-0 |oclc=54476127 |language=de}}
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 |title=Gleich nach dem Gotthard kommt der Mailänder Dom: Geschichten und andere Prosa |publisher=Suhrkamp |publication-place=Frankfurt am Main |date=2006 |isbn=3-518-41834-3 |oclc=71747465 |language=de}}
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 |title=Matutin: Roman |publisher=Suhrkamp |publication-place=Frankfurt am Main |date=2008 |isbn=978-3-518-42029-4 |oclc=254923499 |language=de}}
- {{cite book |last=Leutenegger |first=Gertrud |author-mask=2 |title=Das Klavier auf dem Schillerstein: Prosa |publication-place=Wädenswil am Zürichsee |date=2017 |isbn=978-3-03850-035-3 |oclc=1005074043 |language=de}}
Literature
- {{cite book | last=Kotte | first=Andreas | last2=Gojan | first2=Simone | last3=Aguet | first3=Joël. | author4=Universität Bern. Institut für Theaterwissenschaft | title=Theaterlexikon der Schweiz = Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse = Dizionario teatrale svizzero = Lexicon da teater svizzer | publisher=Chronos | publication-place=Zürich | date=2005 | isbn=3-0340-0715-9 | oclc=717929669 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Albrecht | first=Günter | last2=Böttcher | first2=Kurt | title=Lexikon deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller : von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart | publisher=Bibliographisches Institut | publication-place=Leipzig | date=1987–1993 | isbn=3-323-00103-6 | oclc=17926466 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Felka | first=Rike | title=Das geschriebene Bild : über Gertrud Leutenegger | publisher=Passagen Verlag | publication-place=Wien | date=1996 | isbn=3-85165-212-6 | oclc=35620691 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Kondrič Horvat | first=Vesna | title=Der eigenen Utopie nachspüren : zur Prosa der deutschsprachigen Autorinnen in der Schweiz zwischen 1970 und 1990, dargestellt am Werk Gertrud Leuteneggers und Hanna Johansens | publisher=P. Lang | publication-place=Bern | date=2002 | isbn=3-906768-97-X | oclc=50486946 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Leeder | first=Diana | title=Momentary peace : an examination of the catholic references in the works of Gertrud Leutenegger | publisher=Peter Lang | publication-place=Bern | date=2011 | isbn=978-3-0351-0226-0 | oclc=811387222}}
- {{cite book | last=Pormeister | first=Eve | title=Grenzgängerinnen : Gertrud Leutenegger und die schreibende Nonne Silja Walter aus der Schweiz | publisher=SAXA | publication-place=Berlin | date=2010 | isbn=978-3-939060-26-0 | oclc=698127627 | language=de}}
- {{cite book | last=Zinggeler | first=Margrit Verena | title=Literary freedom and social constraints in the works of Swiss writer Gertrud Leutenegger | publisher=Rodopi | publication-place=Amsterdam | date=1995 | isbn=90-5183-763-1 | oclc=32456724}}
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