ArtistInfo

Urs Widmer

voc, 1938-2014 CH, Basel
Jazz and Spoken Word

Urs Widmer (May 21, 1938 – April 2, 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist and a short story writer.Widmer was born in Basel in 1938, and for many years lived in Zurich. Widmer studied German, French and history at the universities of Basel and Montpellier. After completing his PhD, he worked briefly as an editor at Suhrkamp Verlag, but left the publishing house during the Lektoren-Aufstand (‘Editors’ Revolt’) of 1968.In 2014, Roman Bucheli, Literary Editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, said that Widmer:

Genres

• Jazz
• Spoken Word