Robert Walser

Robert Walser was born on 15 April 1878 in Biel, the son of a bookbinder and merchant. After an apprenticeship at the Bernese Cantonal Bank, he was a clerk in Stuttgart and in many other posts, then trained in domestic service. He lived in Berlin from 1905 to 1913, partly with his brother, the painter Karl Walser, then in Biel and Bern. Admitted in 1929 to the Waldau clinic and transferred in 1933 to Herisau, he stopped writing; his pencil drafts were deciphered after his death. He was found dead in a field of snow near Herisau on 25 December 1956.

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• NovelJakob von GuntenRobert Walser · 1909Literature