Peter Eggenberger (Author)

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Peter Eggenberger (born January 14, 1939 in Walzenhausen ) is a Swiss author and journalist.

Live and act

Peter Eggenberger was born in Walzenhausen in 1939. He did an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in St. Gallen and Basel. From 1959 to 1964 he was a Foreign Legionnaire in North Africa. From 1966 he was trained as a teacher in the Kreuzlingen seminar, followed by a degree in speech therapy and corresponding work at the speech therapy school in St. Gallen in Eastern Switzerland. Eggenberger worked as a teacher , speech therapist , chemist , tour guide and foreign legionnaire .

He publishes short stories in Appenzeller German at Appenzeller Verlag and Weber Verlag (Heiden).

Initially exercising part-time, journalism became his main occupation in 1980. Eggenberger worked for various daily newspapers as well as the annual publications “Appenzeller Calendar” and “Our Rhine Valley”. He worked on the book "Chronicle of the Walzenhausen Community" (1986). He is also the author of various books with short stories in the so-called Kurzenberg dialect, the language of the Appenzell region about Lake Constance and the St. Gallen Rhine Valley.

Together with Peter Bär, Eggenberger is the initiator of the world's first joke trail , opened in 1993 , which put the Appenzell joke on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural assets . He appeared several times on radio and TV broadcasts. On behalf of the Ausserrhoder Cantonal Library , he processed the literary estate of Schiller Prize winner Jakob Hartmann alias "Chemifeger Bodemaa" (1876–1956). He wrote publications about the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz .

Publications

Books and CDs have been published by Appenzeller Verlag.

Humorous short stories
  • "S Gwönderbüechli" (1989)
  • "Frühener ond hütt" (1990)
  • "Ond to the Third" (1993)
  • "Lache isch gsond" (1996)
  • "Druss ond drii" (1999)
  • "Läse ond lache" (2003)
  • "Jechterondoo!" (2009)
  • "Vo Tökter ond Luusbuebe" (2011)
  • "Vo Wiertschafte ond Wiertshüüsler" (2014)
  • "Vo gschiide ond tomme Lüüt" (2016)
  • "D Hebamm vo Walzehuuse" (2020)
Detective novels
  • "Murder in the Foreign Legion" (2000)
  • "Death of a Miracle Healer" (2006)
CDs with short stories and dulcimer music by Hans Sturzenegger
  • "Lache ond schmöllele" (2000)
  • "Lose ond lache" (2006)
Illustrated book
  • "Rorschach-Heiden and Rheineck-Walzenhausen Railway". Appenzeller Volksfreund publishing house, 1992.

Award (honor)

  • Awarded the location marketing prize of the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden (2008)
  • Honorary citizen in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Wolfhalden community (2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief bio on the Appenzeller Verlag website
  2. ↑ http://www.walzenhausen.ch/gemeinde/lesetipps.htm
  3. ^ Tagblatt, Astrid Zysset / Jesko Calderara, November 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Eggenberger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Walzenhausen