On the death of Peter Bichsel: Master of the form of possibility – The Observatorial

The Swiss author Peter Bichsel is dead.

He advised a Federal Councillor, wrote speeches, gave interviews, and he was always talking about Switzerland.

A great master of the small form: with Peter Bichsel an important writer and a critic of Switzerland died.

Peter Bichsel was a member of the literary »Group 47«, and his »Kürzestgeschichten« and columns for Swiss newspapers made him known. Now the author died at the age of 89.

He fell asleep peacefully according to his close environment. Bichsel was one of the most successful Swiss writers.

He was productive until the end: the Swiss author Peter Bichsel died on Saturday at the age of 89.