Lukas Bärfuss

Lukas Bärfuss, born in 1971 in Thun (Switzerland), is a playwright and novelist, essayist and dramaturge. His plays are performed worldwide, and his novels have been translated into twenty languages. In 2003 he received the prize for best young playwright for DIE SEXUELLEN NEUROSEN UNSERER ELTERN (The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents) and in 2005 he received the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis for DER BUS. He received numerous awards, including the Berliner Literaturpreis (2013), the Schweizer Buchpreis (for KOALA, 2014), the Nicolas Born Prize (2015). With HAGARD, he was shortlisted for the Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse in 2017. In 2019, Lukas Bärfuss was awarded the Georg Büchner Preis. Most recently the following plays premiered: 2018 DER ELEFANTENGEIST at Nationaltheater Mannheim, 2020 JULIEN – ROT UND SCHWARZ at Theater Basel, and 2021 LUTHER at Nibelungenfestspiele Worms. 2019 saw the publication of MALINOIS. ERZÄHLUNGEN, 2021 the essay collection DIE KRONE DER SCHÖPFUNG. Lukas Bärfuss is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung and lives in Zurich.