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2 unusual facts about Niklaus Meienberg


Niklaus Meienberg

The Austrian writer Erich Hackl thinks, Meienberg killed himself, because he wasn’t anymore able to bear the course of the world.

Niklaus Meienberg's literary remains are conserved in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern, that amongst others also conserves the literary remains of famous names like Albert Einstein, Hermann Hesse, Patricia Highsmith and Adolf Muschg.


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In its early years, the magazine featured articles by writers including Niklaus Meienberg, Peter Bichsel and Laure Wyss, and, as a bastion of journalistic enlightenment in the 1970s, it heavily defined cultural and political discourse in Switzerland.


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