Vorabend

Gertrud Leutenegger, born in 1948, grew up in Schwyz. In 1976, she began studying directing at the Zurich School of Drama and was a directing assistant in Hamburg in 1978. Poetry was her first published work. With "Vorabend" (1975) and "Ninive" (1977), she presented highly regarded novels. In 1978, she received the Klagenfurt Jury Prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, and in 1979, the Meersburg Dorste Prize for female writers. When Gertrud Leutenegger's first prose works were published in 1975, the Generalanzeiger Bonn wrote: "One of the outstanding merits of this book is that it addresses the incidental, long unnoticed details in a way whose strange beauty either disturbs the reader or certainly astonishes them. The calm confidence with which this storyteller employs her linguistic means.".