Ulrich Schmid studied English Literature, History, and Political Science at Zurich University and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. His dissertation was about the financing of electoral campaigns in the USA and in Switzerland. From 1983 to 1987 he was a journalist for Swiss news agency SDA. He became a foreign correspondent for Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1987, with postings in Moscow, Washington, Beijing, Prague, and Berlin.
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ASCHEMENSCHEN Novel |
ASH PEOPLE Three people meet in the Chinese province of Xinjiang at the edge of the desert: Erla, an exalted woman from Switzerland, Gert, a dark and unsympathetic German, and the Chinese industrialist Xin. When Erla falls in love with the richest man in the area and the daughter of that man disappears, Gert, whose role as a development worker for the Stasi in Ethiopia during the Mengitsu regime remains dubious, is the prime suspect. And when one of his former torture victims appears in China, the day of reckoning has come. |
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DER ZAR VON BROOKLYN Novel
Poland: Muza (2001); |
THE CZAR OF BROOKLYN This first novel takes place in Moscow and Brighton Beach, Brooklyn NY, during the mid-90s. Young journalist Alexander Michailowitch Zwetkow, called Sacha by his friends, is commssioned by the magazine Sputnik to travel to New York to write about Russian immigrants to the city. Encounters, love affairs and crimes ensue. For far too long, the protagonist understands almost nothing of what happens to him in this almost ambleresque story, but emerges as a transformed person in the end. Ulrich Schmid's novel impresses with the authenticity of its characters and their different mentalities and its locations. An English translation is available. "A clever crime novel and a closely observed portrait of post-sovjet society." (Der Spiegel) |