Auf dem hohen Seil

by Brigitte Schär

124 pages, Paperback

First published June 23, 2010

About the author

Brigitte Schär grew up in Meilen on Lake Zurich (daughter of a Swiss father and a German mother) and now lives in Zurich. She studied German Language and Literature, European folk literature and French Literature and completed a degree program for voice and speech. After her studies at the Master level, Brigitte Schär worked for several years as a German teacher and did studio voice recording work for the blind. At the same time, she began making more and more public appearances as both a singer and an artistic performer. Since 1988, she has been working as a freelance writer, singer and performer.

Brigitte Schär writes books for both adults and children and has been awarded numerous prizes. As a singer she has performed in a variety of countries (e.g. Sudan, Lebanon, the US), accompanied by international artists. While in Beirut in 1996, she recorded her CD “Vocal Flight to Beirut”, a work which traverses the boundaries between jazz, vocal improvisation, ethno, chanson, and pop.

As an artistic performer, Brigitte Schär has been involved in many multi-media projects (tours included) in the areas of dance, theater, video, and film. As both a writer and an artist, Ms. Schär seeks to create an original and extraordinary linking of her own literary work to her work as a performer. The result: theatrical “reading-performances” and “concert-readings” for both adults and children.

Today Brigitte Schär is invited as a solo-performer into the whole world. U.S.A, Canada, Sudan, Ecuador, Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Belarus, Taiwan, Lebanon, many countries of Europe.