Lorenz Langenegger

Lorenz Langenegger, born in 1980, lives in Vienna and Zurich. He studied Theatre and Political Science in Bern where he wrote his first plays for the theatre. Since 2004, he has had several commissioned plays. In 2005, Lorenz Langenegger participated in the Swiss Masterclass MC6 and in 2006 in the Young Authors’ Programme Dramenprozessor. Here the play Nah und hoch hinaus was written which had its world premiere at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in March 2008. He won the drama competition of the Schaubühne Berlin with Rakows Dom in 2006. In the summer of 2007, he took part in the International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre in London.
In the spring of 2009, he published his first novel Hier im Regen with which he participated in the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis in the summer of the same year. In 2012, he was invited to the Authors’ Workshop of the Burgtheatre Vienna with his play Wo wir sind. With the same play, he also participated in the Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2013. In 2017, he took part in the Heidelberger Stückemarkt again with his play Nord West 59 which will have its world premiere in December 2017 at the Theater Regensburg. His second and third novels were published in 2014 (Bei 30 Grad im Schatten) and and 2016 (Dorffrieden).

Awards:
2009 Literature Prize of the Canton Bern for Hier im Regen
2009 Franz Tumler Literature Prize for Hier im Regen
2012 Prize of the Swiss Authors’ Association (SSA) for Wo wir sind