Urs Widmer

Urs Widmer was born on 21 May 1938 in Basel, the son of the translator and critic Walter Widmer. He studied German and French literature and history in Basel and Montpellier, and obtained his doctorate there. A reader at Walter in Olten and then at Suhrkamp, he left the latter during the readers' revolt of 1968 and the following year co-founded a theatre publishing house run by its authors. He lived in Frankfurt until 1984 as a freelance writer, critic and teacher, then in Zurich, where he died on 2 April 2014.

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• TheatreTop DogsUrs Widmer · 1996not translated into EnglishLiterature