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Full-length portrait of Robert Walser in profile. He is looking into the distance to the right. Black and white. Walser is wearing a suit and a hat. In the crook of his left arm he carries an umbrella. Around his head the title of the exhibition is arranged as a circle.

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.
Stencil of Robert Walser with yellow and orange rays. In de right corner on the bottom is written: I heartsymbol RW 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unser Youtube-Kanal

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

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.

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.

Walking with Carl Seelig and Robert Walser

We have mapped a selection from Carl Seelig's book Walks with Walser. An invitation to explore the region around Herisau on the screen as well as by walking!

Einladung zu Robert Walsers Geburtstag!

Gaststätten waren Robert Walser heilig – Orte der Begegnung, wo man sich trifft, Orte, um sich zu stärken, zu beobachten oder sich einzumischen. Deshalb treffen wir uns an seinem Geburtstag, dem 15. April, mit Gleichgesinnten in einem Café, einer Kneipe oder einem Restaurant, um auf ihn anzustoßen.