Lifelong Bird Migration: Lebenslang Vogelzug

Born in 1947, the son of a printer and poet, Jurg Amann attended high school in Winterthur and studied German literature at the University of Zurich and the Freie Universität Berlin. For many years he worked as a journalist and editor in Berlin, then later in Zurich. Amann was a poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, dramatist and children’s author. His prodigious oeuvre spans well over 40 literary works. He won many awards, including the Ingeborg Bachmann and Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer prizes and two awards from the Swiss Schiller Foundation. He died in 2013.