Christoph Geiser
Switzerland
Born in Basel in 1949, Christoph Geiser initially wanted to study theology but according to his own account, he wandered into sociology, interrupted his studies after a short time, then earned his living as a journalist. Since the 1980s, he has worked as a freelance writer in Bern and Berlin and primarily writes novels. His extensive body of work has won multiple awards.
Secession Verlag recently reissued Geiser’s collected works. For the first time his scattered writings, much of it almost entirely out of stock, has been gathered in one volume and provided with knowledgeable commentary, letting this “pioneer of queer Swiss literature” (Die Zeit) have his say again. This unique edition, planned to consist of twelve volumes, shows Christoph Geiser to be one of Switzerland’s most important contemporary authors. He himself has said in an interview with Aufklappen “… naturally it’s very gratifying to see this, it’s a life’s work. I never wrote individual books, I always understood my work as a whole, that’s one thing. Another is naturally that I meet myself again in it. […] Where have I come from and where is it going? Since the final volume isn’t even written yet, that’s what I still have to write: volume 13.”
Christoph Geiser’s Collected Works:
30th Leukerbad International Literary Festival:
