Alter Ego

Simon Froehling: Lange Nächte Tag

Translation:

Author who holds a dual citizenship – Australian and Swiss – was born in 1978 in the town of Brugg in the Aargau canton. Having graduated from secondary school in Brisbane Australia he started to work as a teacher of English in the United Kingdom. Following a year spent in Cairo he became an external economic editor in Zürich where he also settled down. From October 2004 he also spends much time in Berlin, primarily in the former Union of Swiss Writers. He soon discovered though that the language of German literature (hochdeutsch) is not a language to his liking and therefore took the first opportunity to write a text to the theatre project This is not a Love Song in his mother tongue. In recent years Froehling has become successful primarily as a playwright – his play Feindmaterie received an award of the audience during the literature days of St. Gallen.