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
departure world convinced
I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
country
The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.
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.
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.
teacher conception observers
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
literature shirts
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
people want strange
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
writing said novel
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
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 language
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.