Hansjörg Schneider

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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.

»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

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