Thomas Hürlimann

Thomas Hürlimann was born on 21 December 1950 in Zug, son of Hans Hürlimann, a future federal councillor. After the abbey school of Einsiedeln, he studied philosophy in Zurich and then at the Free University of Berlin, without finishing. From 1978 to 1980 he was assistant director and dramaturg at the Schiller-Theater in Berlin, then lived by his pen, and returned to Switzerland in 1985. He taught at the Leipzig literature institute and received the Thomas Mann Prize and then, in 2019, the Gottfried Keller Prize.

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• TheatreGroßvater und HalbbruderThomas Hürlimann · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature