Matthias Zschokke (29 October 1954

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) 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 Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. 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

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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 The Prix Femina is a French List of literary awards, literary prize awarded each year by an exclusively female jury. The prize, which was established in 1904, is awarded to French-language works written in prose or Verse (poetry), verse by male ...

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

References

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