Max Rychner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Rychner

Swiss writer (1897-1965)

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1897

Place of Birth: Lichtensteig, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1965

Profession: writer, poet, translator, journalist, literary critic, linguist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Max Rychner (8 April 1897 in Lichtensteig, Switzerland – 10 June 1965 in Zurich) - was a Swiss writer, journalist, translator, and literary critic, writing in German.
Hannah Arendt called him "[O]ne of the most educated and subtle figures in the intellectual life of the era"Rychner published several books of poetry, short stories, essays, and autobiographical prose, and translated some of the works of Paul Valéry into German.
For several decades, he was one of the most influential literary critics and reviewers writing in German.
He admired, promoted, and published the works of Robert Walser, and corresponded with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, Gottfried Benn, Ernst Robert Curtius, and others. He championed the young poet Paul Celan and published the memoirs of Walter Benjamin. In 1956, Rychner won the Gottfried Keller Award.