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Art is neither decoration nor a mere commodity, it is raison d'être, nourishment, generates steam, brings us to the boiling point and distils ideas. With Virginia Ariu, Peter Fischli, Lisa Hoever, Fabian Marti, Annina Matter, Ivan Mitrovic and Emanuel Rossetti.
New Exhibition
Carl Seelig's Walks with Robert Walser: This new exhibition of the Robert Walser Centre, which opens on 3 September, revolves around Carl Seelig and Robert Walser.
Literature search
The Robert Walser Archive’s database lists primary as well as secondary literature about Robert Walser; it serves as both the Robert Walser’s bibliography and the Center’s main library catalogue. All resources can be consulted and studied in the reading room of the Robert Walser Centre.
The Centre
The Robert Walser Centre is a competence centre for Robert Walser and Carl Seelig. To safeguard, inventory, research and communicate its holdings, it maintains the Robert Walser Archive as well as a research library and a temporary exhibition.
Audio Guide zum Robert Walser-Zentrum
Ein kurzer Audio Guide zum Robert Walser-Zentrum mit den wesentlichsten Informationen zu unserem Haus, unseren Tätigkeiten und zu Robert Walser.
Friends
For us Robert Walser is a wonderful source of inspiration. We are grateful for the activities of the Robert Walser Center, which is dedicated to the preservation of Walser’s legacy and the dissemination of his work from ever new perspectives.
About Robert Walser
Robert Walser (1878–1956) is considered one of the most mysterious writers of his time. Born in Biel, Switzerland, he left school at the age of fourteen to serve an apprenticeship at a local bank. Walser’s early poems were first published in 1898.
Das Grab von Karl und Trude Walser
Das Grab von Karl und Trude Walser findet sich auf dem Schosshaldenfreidhof in Bern. Das Ehrengrab
The Archive
The Robert Walser Archive has been collecting, indexing and publishing the author's work for more than 40 years. It has a unique collection of manuscripts, biographical materials and academic literature.
The Society
The Robert Walser Society has set itself the goal of promoting research into and dissemination of Robert Walser's work. It does this out of the conviction that Robert Walser is one of the most interesting German-language authors of the modern age.
Berner Ausgabe
The Bern edition, published by Suhrkamp-Verlag, is designed as a reading and study edition. It makes Walser's work accessible in a text-philologically impeccable form, and includes epilogues and commentaries based on the latest research.
Publications
The Robert Walser Centre pursues book projects and editions in cooperation with various publishers and partners at home and abroad. Some of these projects are freely accessible online.
Kritische Ausgabe
The Robert Walser Centre and its Berner Ausgabe work closely together with the Kritische Robert Walser-Ausgabe compiled at the Universities of Basel and Zurich and are on friendly terms.
Robert Walser-Preis
Since 2018, the Robert Walser Centre has been a partner of the Robert Walser Prize, the only bilingual literary prize in Switzerland. Every two years, prose debuts in German and French are awarded by the Foundation Robert Walser Biel/Bienne. The next award ceremony will take place in autumn 2024.
»Tiefer Winter«
Vier Videos auf der Basis von Gedichten Robert Walsers; vertont von Balz Trümpy, in Bilder gesetzt von Matthias Günter, gespielt von Nana Hiwatari und Yuki Kasai, gesprochen von Stefan Kurt. Eine Ko-Produktion von Nana Hiwatari, Matthias Günter und dem Robert Walser-Zentrum.