Lukas
Bärfuss Author

Lukas Bärfuss, born in Thun in 1971, is a playwright, novelist, essayist and dramaturge. His plays are performed worldwide and his novels have been translated into twenty languages. In 2003, he was named best newcomer playwright for ‹Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern› (The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents) and received the Mülheim Playwright Prize in 2005 for ‹Der Bus›. He has received numerous prizes, including the Berlin Literature Prize in 2013, the Swiss Book Prize for ‹Koala› in 2014 and the Nicolas Born Prize in 2015. He was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017 with ‹Hagard›. In 2019, he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize. Lukas Bärfuss regularly writes for the stage: ‹Der Elefantengeist› premiered at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in 2018, ‹Julien – Rot und Schwarz› at Theater Basel in 2020 and ‹Luther› at the Nibelungenfestspiele Worms in 2021. 2019 saw the publication of ‹Malinois. Erzählungen› was published in 2019, the essay collection ‹Die Krone der Schöpfung› in 2021, his autobiographical essay ‹Vaters Kiste› in 2022 and his last novel ‹Die Krume Brot› in 2023. He has written a new version of Calderón de la Barca's mystery play for the Einsiedeln World Theater, which could only be premiered in the summer of 2024. Lukas Bärfuss is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and lives in Zurich. He has now written his own dramatization of his novel ‹Die Krume Brot› for the Basel company.