Adolf Muschg
Born	(1934-05-13)13 May 1934 (age 90) Zollikon, Switzerland
Occupation(s)	Writer, professor

Adolf Muschg (born 13 May 1934) is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of theGruppe Olten.

Adolf Muschg was born inZollikon, canton ofZürich, Switzerland. He studiedGerman studies,English studies and philosophy at the universities ofZürich andCambridge and earned his doctoral degree with a work aboutErnst Barlach.

Between 1959 and 1962, he worked as a teacher in Zürich. Different engagements as a teacher followed in (Göttingen), Japan and the US. From 1970 to 1999 Muschg was professor of German language and literature at theEidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich.

He wrote the foreword toFritz Zorn's controversial memoirsMars. The book pointed out the supposedly "cancer-causing" lifestyle of Zurich's wealthy gold coast and provoked a scandal in Switzerland; its author died of cancer before its release. Muschg was also provocative with works likeWenn Auschwitz in der Schweiz liegt ("If Auschwitz were in Switzerland"). His detractors^[who?] suggest that Muschg was writing without direct experience. A theme of his newer works is often love in old age.

Since 1976 he has been a member of theAcademy of Arts, Berlin; he is also a member of theAkademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur,Mainz and theDeutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung,Darmstadt. In 2003 he was elected president of the Berlin Academy but left the presidency in December 2005 because of disagreements with the academy's senate about public relations.

Muschg lives inMännedorf near Zürich. His estate is archived in theSwiss Literary Archives inBern.

• 1968Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
• 1974Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis
• 1984Zürich Literature Prize^[1]
• 1990Carl Zuckmayer Medal
• 1993Ricarda-Huch-Preis
• 1994Georg Büchner Prize
• 1995Vilenica International Literary Prize
• 2001Grimmelshausen-Preis
• 2017Prize of the Internationale Hermann-Hesse-Gesellschaft^[2][3]

• Gottfried Keller, biography, 1977
• Wenn Auschwitz in der Schweiz liegt, 1997

• Baiyun oder die Freundschaftsgesellschaft; Läufer und Brücken – eine unveröffentlichte Erzählung. Ausschnitte aus der Lesung in Hoser's Buchhandlung am 4. Oktober 1979 (Hoser's Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, ohne Nummer) (1 LP)ISBN 3-921414-05-9

• Judith Ricker-Abderhalden (ed.):Über Adolf Muschg. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979,ISBN 3-518-10686-4.
• Renate Voris:Adolf Muschg. C.H. Beck, Munich 1984.ISBN 3-406-30165-7.
• Manfred Dierks (ed.):Adolf Muschg. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1989,ISBN 3-518-38586-0.
• Andreas Dorschel: 'Tüchtig nach Hause geleuchtet', inSüddeutsche Zeitung, nr 103 (5 May 2004), p. 16.
• Rüdiger Schaper: 'Wer im Glashaus schwitzt. Akademie-Präsident Adolf Muschg gibt auf', in:Der Tagesspiegel, nr 19047 (16 December 2005), p. 25.
• (in French) Alexandre Mirlesse:En attendant l'Europe (Rencontre avec Adolf Muschg). La Contre Allée, Lille 2009,ISBN 978-2-917817-01-8.

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• Literary estate of Adolf Muschg in the archive database HelveticArchives of theSwiss National Library
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• Information by the ETH Zurich
• Brigitte Marschall (2005)."Adolf Muschg". In Andreas Kotte (ed.).Theaterlexikon der Schweiz / Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse / Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero / Lexicon da teater svizzer [Theater Dictionary of Switzerland] (in German). Vol. 2. Zürich: Chronos. pp. 1297–1298.ISBN 978-3-0340-0715-3.LCCN 2007423414.OCLC 62309181.
• Website of Adolf Muschg

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