Monique Schwitter
| Monique Schwitter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss / German |
| Occupation | Writer and actress |
| Known for | Novel Eins im Andern (2015) |
Monique Schwitter (born March 2, 1972 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer and actress.
Monique Schwitter studied stage direction and theater at the Mozarteum Salzburg from 1993 to 1997. Having graduated, she worked as an actress at top-level houses for five years, such as the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Schauspiel Frankfurt, and . She was then an ensemble member at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Throughout that period, she was a reciter, a dubbing actor and directed and produced several literary features about Peter Handke, Ernst Jandl, Raymond Queneau, and Sarah Kane. At the Deutsche Schauspielhaus she curated a literary salon and performed as a blues singer. In her acting career, she regularly was part of numerous theater festivals, such as Mülheimer Theatertagen (1999), "Reich und Berühmt" in Berlin (2001), "Theater der Welt" in Stuttgart (2005), Vienna Festival (2006), Salzburg Festival (2006), "Theaterformen" in Hannover (2007) und Berliner Theatertreffen (2008).
Starting 2002, she contributed prose and short stories in various literary magazines. After the editor had become interested in her work, she published much of her early work in the Austrian literary magazine Manuskripte. Her first collection of short stories, Wenn's schneit beim Krokodil, was published in 2005 and was awarded the Robert-Walser Preis (2006) and a prize by the Deutsche Schillerstiftung. In 2008, the theater Lucerne comissed the piece Himmels-W, which premiered there on April 3, 2008. In the same year, she was invited to participate in the Max-Frisch-Symposium at the University Brussels. Her debut novel Ohren haben keine Lider was also released in 2008 and was translated into Chinese in 2010 for the Expo in Shanghai. Her second volume of short stories, Goldfish Memory (Ger.: Goldfischgedächtnis), was launched in 2011. In 2010, Monique Schwitter decided to end her acting career, in order to pursue writing full-time.
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