• The Centre
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      • Wir Ungestalten
      • Lika Nüssli. Für die Katz
      • Simone Fattal. Walk I, II, III
      • Götterliebling, Augenpoet, Erfolgsmensch. Karl Walser im Robert Walser-Zentrum
      • Bureau Bollito
      • Carl Seelig's Walks with Robert Walser
      • Pamela Rosenkranz »Healer Scrolls«
      • Walser's Letters
      • Thomas Schütte at the Robert Walser-Centre
      • “Robert Walser Model”, Thomas Hirschhorn, 2018
      • Tilo Steireif’s Der Räuber nach dem Roman von Robert Walser – an exhibition of 112 watercolors
      • Robert Walser's Microscripts
      • Robert Frank: Ferne Nähe/Distant Closeness
      • Markus Zürcher: »Büroausstellung«
      • Robert Walser's lifetime books
    • Publications
      • The Bernese edition
        • Vol. 1-3 | Briefe
        • Vol. 4 | Fritz Kocher's Aufsätze
        • Bd. 5 Geschwister Tanner
        • Vol. 6 | Der Gehülfe
        • Bd. 7 Jakob von Gunten
        • Bd. 9 | Aufsätze
        • Bd. 11 | Kleine Dichtungen
        • Vol. 12 | Prosastücke
        • Vol. 13 | Kleine Prosa
        • Vol. 14 | Der Spaziergang
        • Bd. 16 | Komödie
        • Bd. 17 | Seeland
        • Bd. 18 | Die Rose
        • Bd. 19-25 | Feuilletons
      • Schriften des Robert Walser-Zentrums
        • Vol. 1 | Lifetime Books
        • Vol. 2 | On the Gold Scale
        • Vol. 3 | Distant Closeness
        • Vol. 4 | Volunteering
        • Vol. 5 | Das Robert Walser-Modell / The Robert Walser Model
        • Vol. 6 | Hermann Walser, Geographer
        • Vol. 7 | Mr. Feuilleton: Josef Viktor Widmann
      • Robert Walser Studies
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      • Further publications
    • Projects
      • Übersetzerstammtisch
      • Deep Winter
      • Kurzfilme
      • Walking with Carl Seelig and Robert Walser
        • #1: Herisau – St. Gallen
        • #2: St. Gallen – Speicher – Trogen – Gäbris
        • #3: Rehetobel – Heiden – Thal – Buechberg – Buechen – Rorschacherberg – Rorschach
        • #5: Herisau – Lichtensteig
        • #17: Herisau – Winkeln – Bruggen – St. Gallen
        • #40: Herisau – Solitüde – St. Gallen
        • #45 Walsers last walk
      • Karl and Robert Walser – Places of Work and Life
      • Augenblicke
        • Volume 1
          • Walking, talking
          • Blink of an eye
          • Focus on detail
        • Volume 2
          • Chit-Chat
          • Snow
          • Skin in the Game
      • Robert Walser-Sculpture
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    • A Chronology
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      • Adolf (Sr.) Walser
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      • Oscar Walser
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        • Josef Viktor Widmanns Grab
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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.

Robert Walser-Newsletter

Here you will find exciting information on Robert Walser and exclusive insights into the Robert Walser Centre as well as information on upcoming Robert Walser events. The newsletter is published at least five times a year at irregular intervals (in German).

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.

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.

New Exhibition

Karl Walser was highly successful during his lifetime: whether as an illustrator for leading book publishers, as a stage designer for Max Reinhardt in Berlin, as a designer of murals in the City-Bad in Zurich or in Bern's town hall and municipal theatre - he achieved mastery in all disciplines.

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.

 Picture: Gelgia Caviezel

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.

Audio Guide to the Robert Walser Center

A short audio guide to the Robert Walser Center with the most important information about our house, our activities and Robert Walser (only in German).

Unser Youtube-Kanal

Here we show contributions that are about Robert Walser and the activities of the Robert Walser Center—organized by playlists.

The grave of Karl and Hedwig Walser

Together with the Schosshalden Cemetery, the Robert Walser Center cares for the grave of the artist Karl Walser, who died in 1943, and his wife Hedwig, who died in 1987.

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.

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