Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichselis a popular Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Gruppe Olten...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 March 1935
CountrySwitzerland
writing language
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
doe dear-god drawers
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
writing said novel
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
departure world convinced
I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
teacher conception observers
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
strong kings heart
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
concerns infinitely observe painful visual
With me it always concerns the first sentence, which I must find. That is an infinitely painful business. I observe badly. I have no visual memory.
german high language lock locked themselves writers
Writers lock up themselves into their language. I locked up myself into my language situation, where only new high German is spoken.