Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Matthias Zschokke
Matthias Zschokke © Opale
NOVELIST / CINEAST
Switzerland
BiographY
Matthias Zschokke, born in Berne in 1954, is a Swiss German novelist, dramaturge and filmmaker. After training as an actor at the Zurich Schauspielschule, he was hired by Peter Zadek at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Zschokke has lived and worked Berlin since 1980 and the city figures prominently in his work. He is the author of nine volumes of prose (novels, short stories), eight plays, and three films. His novel Maurice mit Huhn won the Schiller Prize in Germany and the Femina foreign novel prize. In 1995, the Brockhaus encyclopedia of literature summarized Zschokke's writing as follows: “In a comical, ironic fashion, Zschokke challenges society while transgressing every formal standard and limit of traditional narrative literature. Zschokke has also participated in filming for cinema and television in Germany.
