Max Huwyler

Max Huwyler (born December 6, 1931 in Zug ) is a Swiss author.

Life

Max Huwyler was a secondary school teacher in the Canton of Zurich . Together with the secondary school teacher Walter Flückiger from Thalwil, he wrote the language teaching aid World of Words, used in secondary school, in three volumes, which was published in several editions from 1983 onwards. His work also includes texts for children, plays for the school stage, radio plays, poems and children's books. Huwyler also works with musicians at readings. He also translated pieces by Elias Canetti and Günter Grass into Swiss German .

Max Huwyler was awarded the Swiss Youth Book Prize in 1993 , the Swiss Schiller Foundation Prize in 1996 and the Canton of Zug Recognition Prize, and the Central Switzerland Media Prize of the Swiss Radio DRS in 2004 and the Zonser Radio Play Prize . In 2018 he received the honorary award of the 3rd Culture Sash Zug.

Works

• 2010: The zebra is the zebra. With illustrations by Jürg Obrist. Atlantis-Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-7152-0581-6 .
• 2011: Sometimes survive. Poems. Martin Wallimann Verlag, Alpnach, ISBN 978-3-905969-07-8
• 2018: Jacob's emigration. Zug stories and idylls . edition bücherlese, Lucerne, ISBN 978-3-906907-14-7 .

literature

• Franziska Meister: Huwyler, Max. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Huwyler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Association for children and young people's books in Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ autillus.ch
2. ↑ Media award on the SRG Zentralschweiz website ( memento of the original from June 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Zug Online: News: Kulturschärpe: Award for children's circus Grissini and Max Huwyler. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .