Adolf Muschg

Adolf Muschg was born on 13 May 1934 in Zollikon, the son of a schoolteacher; his half-brother was the literary historian Walter Muschg. He studied German and English literature and philosophy in Zurich and Cambridge, and in 1959 defended a thesis on Ernst Barlach. After teaching in Tokyo, Göttingen, Cornell and Geneva, he was professor of German literature at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich from 1970 to 1999. A co-founder of the Olten Group, a Socialist candidate for the Council of States in 1975, he presided over the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 2003 to 2005.

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• NovelDer Rote RitterAdolf Muschg · 1993not translated into EnglishLiterature