Charles Lewinsky
| Charles Lewinsky | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 14, 1946 Zürich, Switzerland |
| Residence | Zürich |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Television screenwriter, playwright and writer |
| Years active | since 1965 |
| Notable work | Fascht e Familie |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Lewinsky |
| Awards | Charles Lewinsky#Awards |
| Website | Official website (German) |
Charles Lewinsky (14 April 1946) is a Swiss screenwriter and playwright (among others Fascht e Familie), as well as a writer of novels and non-fiction, born and living in Zürich.
Born and raised in Zürich, Canton of Zürich in Switzerland, Charles Lewinsky studied German and theater science in Berlin and Zurich, and worked as an assistant director of Fritz Kortner. In 1965/67 he was assistant director and dramaturg at the Stadttheater Luzern, in 1967/70 dramaturge and personal assistant to the director at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, in 1970/71 dramaturge at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, and in 1972/75 dramaturg and director at the Staatstheater Kassel. Charles Lewinsky is married with Ruth Lewinsky née Halpern, a Swiss writer who also was born in Zürich.
In 1975 Lewinsky became the editor and head of the "word - entertainment" department of the present Swiss national television SRF. Since 1980 he has worked as a freelance writer, especially for television. Lewinsky claims to have written about 1,000 television shows for broadcasters in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, about 30 radioplays and the lyrics for about 500 songs.
For SRF Charles Lewinsky wrote the successful Swiss German language sitcom Fascht e Familie that premiered between 1994 and 1999 on the Swiss national television channel SRF 1, starring among others Trudi Roth, Walter Andreas Müller, Martin Schenkel, Hanna Scheuring, Andreas Matti and Sandra Moser. First aired on 4 November 1994, Fascht e Familie is still very popular in the Swiss German culture, and from time to time re-broadcast in the Swiss German television. In 1997 the RTL-Group in Germany asked for an adoption for the German television, and so the dialogues were synchronized in the Swiss Standard German language, but the Swiss German oriented humour did not fit the audience's gusto in Germany, and even in Austria, and so just 40 episodes have been broadcast between January and October 1997 as Fast ’ne Familie on Super RTL.
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