Biography
Martina Clavadetscher was born in Zug in 1979, grew up in Brunnen and studied German literature, linguistics and philosophy at the University of Fribourg. Her first play, Drei Frauen, premiered at the Luzerner Theater in 2006, where she was also house playwright in the 2013/14 season. Umständliche Rettung won her the Essen playwrights' prize in 2016, and in the same year she was nominated for the Heidelberger Stückemarkt; further plays such as Der letzte Europäer in Zurich and Frau Ada denkt Unerhörtes in Leipzig followed. As a prose writer she was shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize with Knochenlieder and won it in 2021 for Die Erfindung des Ungehorsams. In 2026 she received a Swiss Literature Award for the novel Die Schrecken der anderen. The Burgtheater Wien premieres her play Furien in 2027.
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