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Alexander Ziegler (8 March 1944 in Zürich – 11 August 1987 in Zürich) was a Swiss author and actor . Ziegler studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Wien (1960/1961). He was an actor in Spring Awakening, a play by Frank Wedekind, in 1964.
Alexander Ziegler may refer to: Alexander Ziegler (German writer) (1822–1887), German writer and economist. Alexander Ziegler (Swiss writer) (1944–1987), Swiss writer and actor.
Ziegler studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Wien (1960/1961). He was an actor in Spring Awakening, a play by Frank Wedekind, in 1964. He was also an actor in the American television series Boys and Girls, created by Fred Mallow.
- Johann David Wyss
- Robert Walser
- Johanna Spyri
- Hermann Hesse
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Joel Dicker
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Melinda Nadj Abonji
- Germaine de Staël
- Thomas Mann
Swiss native Johann David Wyss was born in 1743 in Bern and died in his hometown in 1818. He is best known for the classic novel The Swiss Family Robinson. First published in German in 1812, it was translated and published in English in 1814. It tells the adventures of a Swiss family of immigrants traveling to Australia whose ship goes off course a...
Sometimes writers are more successful posthumously than during their lifetime. That is the case for Robert Walser who was born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland in 1878 and died in Herisau, Switzerland on Christmas day in 1956. Before writing, Walser worked various jobs including a bank clerk, inventor’s assistant, and a butler in a castle. From 1899 unt...
The awe-inspiring Swiss countryside and traditional rural life provide the backdrop of Johanna Spyri’s famous novel Heidi and other notable children’s stories. Spyri, nee Johanna Louise Heusser in 1827 in Hirzel spent summers as a child near Chur in Graubünden, an area known for its dramatic scenery. The area would later serve as the setting for He...
Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Germany in 1877 and moved to Montagnola near Lake Lugano in 1919 where he later received Swiss citizenship. Growing up, he aspired to be a poet while apprenticing in a Calw tower clock factory and later in a book store in Tübingen. At age 22, Hesse published his first book, a collection of poetry. He continued workin...
Native Swiss Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in Konofingen, a municipality in the canton of Bern in 1921. His father, a Protestant pastor, moved the family to Bern in 1935. Friedrich had begun his studies in German literature and philosophy at the University of Zurich and transferred to the University of Bern. He dropped his academic career in 1943 t...
Swiss novelist Joel Dicker was born in Geneva in 1985. He attended Geneva schools and enrolled at the Cours Florent in Paris at age 19. He studied for one year before returning to Geneva to attend law school at the University of Geneva. He received a Master of Law degree in 2010. Dicker’s very successful career includes the Geneva Writers’ prize fo...
The French-speaking writer and world-renowned philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712. It is said that his writings on politics, education, and economics inspired the French Revolution. Rousseau was also a composer, and his works were admired by composers such as Mozart. But it was Rousseau’s philosophy and writings that were t...
Hungarian-Swiss writer Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in 1968 in the Hungarian region of Yugoslavia which is present-day Serbia. At the age of five, she joined her refugee parents in Switzerland. Today, she is also an active musician and performance artist. Upon finishing her studies at the University of Zurich, Melinda wrote a debut novel titled Fly...
Most commonly known as Madame de Staël, Germaine de Staël was born in Paris in 1766 to a prominent Swiss banker and statesman and a Swiss governance owner of one the most popular salons in Paris. During political turmoil, her family took up residence in 1784 at Château Coppet, an estate on Lake Geneva. Germaine’s parents wanted her educated accordi...
Born in 1875 in Lübeck, Germany, Thomas man was a novelist, essayist, social critic, and philanthropist. A member of the Hanseatic Mann family dynasty, he wrote about his family’s social class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. His brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann. Three more of his siblings also became German writers. Thomas Mann fled t...
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Alexander Ziegler (8 March 1944 – in Zürich; 11 August 1987 in Zürich) was a Swiss author and actor. Ziegler studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Wien (1960/1961). He was an actor in Spring Awakening, a play by Frank Wedekind, in 1964. He was also an actor in the American television series Boys and Girls, created by Fred Mallow.
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Jan 26, 1984 · Last Friday, he met for an hour with a gay Swiss writer named Alexander Ziegler, who was flown to Bonn for interrogation by the Defense Ministry.
