Biography
Shelley Kästner (*1961) trained as an actress and voice-over artist in Zurich, Munich and New York and has appeared in countless international film, television and theatre productions. In 1999 she completed her Master’s degree in psychology at the University of Zurich and has since worked full-time as a neuropsychologist. Her play «Antisemitismus oder Die Lust, gemein zu sein» premiered at the Neumarkttheater Zurich in 1997. In 2018, Elster & Salis Verlag published «Jewish Roulette. Vom jüdischen Erzbischof bis zum atheistischen Orthodoxen», with which she was invited to the Solothurn Literature Days in 2019. At the time, the programme committee praised, among other things, “the literary craft, the linguistic precision as well as the aesthetics of the text”. «Verleugnung» is her debut novel. Shelley Kästner lives and works in Zurich.
