Peter Bichsel

Peter Bichsel was born on 24 March 1935 in Lucerne, the son of a master painter employed by the federal railways, and grew up in Olten. A graduate of the teacher training college in Solothurn in 1955, he was a schoolteacher until 1968, then lived by his pen and by his columns in the press. In 1956 he married the actress Therese Spörri. Personal adviser to Federal Councillor Willi Ritschard for six or seven years, he received the Great Schiller Prize in 2012. He died in Zuchwil on 15 March 2025, shortly before his ninetieth birthday.

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• Short storiesAnd Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the MilkmanEigentlich möchte Frau Blum den Milchmann kennenlernenPeter Bichsel · 1964Literature