Hansjörg Schneider

Hansjörg Schneider was born in 1938 in Switzerland. After completing his dissertation in German literature he worked as a teacher, journalist and at the theatre. He is one of the most performed playwrights in the German language and his Hunkeler stories are regularly on the Swiss best-seller list. Hansjörg Schneider has received numerous prizes, among them the ›Friedrich Glauser Prize‹ in 2005. He lives in Basel and in the Black Forest.

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»Hunkeler is, of course, very reminiscent of Simenon’s Inspector Maigret and above all of Friedrich Glauser’s Officer Studer. But in this in-love-with-life pessimist, this loner who just cannot bring himself to give up on society he has created a truly original character.«NZZ am Sonntag

»Hansjörg Schneider is a talented and conscientious storyteller, who does not lecture readers, unless through their proper gift for empathy and perception, which he is able to activate in such wonderful ways.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»Hansjörg Schneider has created a wonderful protagonist: rugged, awkward and likeable.« Hamburger Abendblatt

»Hansjörg Schneider’s crime stories will have you hooked. As soon as a murderer is caught, you are already longing for the next one to appear.« Tages-Anzeiger