Peter Bichsel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Peter Bichsel

Swiss writer

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Lucerne, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Peter Bichsel

  • Peter Bichsel (born 24 March 1935) is a popular Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature.
  • He was a member of the Gruppe Olten. Bichsel was born 1935 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of manual labourers.
  • Shortly after he was born, the Bichsels moved to Olten, also in Switzerland.
  • After finishing school, he became an elementary school teacher, a job which he held until 1968.
  • From 1974 to 1981 he was the personal advisor and speech writer of Willy Ritschard, a member of the Swiss Federal Council.
  • Between 1972 and 1989 he made his mark as a "writer in residence" and a guest lecturer at American universities.
  • Bichsel has lived on the outskirts of Solothurn for several decades. He started publishing short lyric works in newspapers.
  • In 1960, he got his first success in prose as a private printer.
  • In the winter of 1963-1964 he took part in writing course in prose taught by Walter Höllerer. One of his first and most well-known works is And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman.
  • Just as successful, Children's Stories, intended for adults, is written in the form of droll tales for children.
  • Both books were translated from the German by English poet Michael Hamburger.
  • A theme of Bichsel's works for younger readers is the stubborn desire of children to take words literally and wreak havoc on the world of communicated ideas.
  • In the early 1970s and 1980s, Bichsel's journalistic work pushed his literary work mainly into the background.
  • Only Der Busant (1985) and Warten in Baden-Baden appeared again with the Bichsel style that was so familiar to German readers.
  • Peter Bichsel gave up being a professional teacher early in his lifetime, yet he has continued to teach his readers that the drudgery and banality of life is of our own making.
  • Conversely, we have every opportunity to prevent our lives from being boring.
  • This theme has helped make Peter Bichsel a symbol of German literary work today. In 1981, he was a member of the jury at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.Peter Bichsel's estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

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