Gertrud Leutenegger (born 1948) is a German-speaking Swiss poet, novelist, playwright and theatre director.
[1] Gertrud Leutenegger was born and grew up in Schwyz, Switzerland, where her father was a book editor.
She worked as assistant producer to Jürgen Flimm, a noted exponent of Regietheater, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, in 1978.
[1] There is also a strong element of political engagement, for example in the 1985 novel Kontinent which deals with issues of environmental damage.
This tells the story of a woman stranded in London when the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 brought all air-traffic to a sudden halt.