Hanspeter Born

Hanspeter Born (born November 15, 1938 in Bern ) is a Swiss journalist and book author.

Life

Hanspeter Born studied English at the University of Bern and graduated with a doctorate . From 1977 to 1982 he was Washington - correspondent of Radio DRS . From 1984 to 2009 he worked as a foreign editor for Weltwoche ; he continues to write for the newspaper. He was best known for his 16-part series of articles (1988/89) - followed by two books, the second of which was banned shortly after its publication - on Murder in Kehrsatz . In an article in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England , he argues that Shakespeare rewrote some scenes in Robert Greene's A Knack to Know a Knave , which provoked Greene's attack on Shakespeare in A Groatsworth of Wit .

Works (selection)

As an author

• For the correctness: Kurt Waldheim . Schneekluth, Munich 1987
• Murder in reverse. How a family tragedy turned into a judicial scandal . Weltwoche-ABC, Zurich 1989
• Accident in reverse. A hypothesis . Weltwoche-ABC, Zurich 1990
• Those were the days. Ferdi Kübler and the golden years of Swiss cycling. Weltwoche-ABC, Zurich 1990
• Le "Pédophile Argovien" or Comment fabriquer un monstre . Le glaive et la plume, Geneva 1996
• Statesman in the Storm, Pilet-Golaz and the year 1940 . münsterverlag, Basel 2020. ISBN 978-3-907146-72-9

As a co-author

• Klaus Bittermann (Ed.): Serbia must die. Truth and Lies in the Yugoslav Civil War. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-923118-14-7 .
• Peter Schnyder (Ed.): Hugo Koblet . The “Pédaleur de charme”. AS, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-909111-18-1 .
• Peter Schnyder (Ed.): Ferdy Kübler - «Ferdy National». AS, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-909111-25-4 .
• The missing cat (with Benoît Landais). Real time, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-905800-29-6 .

Web links

• Website from Hanspeter Born
• Literature by and about Hanspeter Born in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Hanspeter Born in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Hanspeter Born's author page on the Weltwoche website
• Roger Köppel : Internal: Hanspeter Born. In: Die Weltwoche , issue 33/2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Why Greene was angry at Shakespeare