Peter Heisch

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Peter Heisch (born November 10, 1935 in Offenburg ; † January 26, 2019 ) was a Swiss writer , satirist and proofreader .

Life

Heisch grew up in Offenburg in Baden. From 1949 to 1953 he completed an apprenticeship as a machine setter at the Offenburger Tageblatt . In 1958 he moved to Zurich and in 1959 to Schaffhausen , where he worked as a proofreader . From 1992 to 2000 he was chief proofreader of the “ Schaffhauser Nachrichten ”.

Heisch also worked as a columnist for the satirical magazine “ Nebelspalter ” (from 1958), “ Weltwoche ”, the Zürcher “ Tages-Anzeiger ” and his house paper “Schaffhauser Nachrichten”. From 2002 to 2006 he was a board member of the Swiss Association for the German Language (SVDS). Heisch was also active as a writer and published several books.

His son is the musician Michael Heisch (* 1963).

Fonts (selection)

  • Customs guide. Advice and consolation booklet at the border crossing . Rosgarten-Verlag, Konstanz 1964.
  • Rogues, smugglers, sinners. Whistling whistles from Lake Constance to the Upper Rhine . Rosgarten-Verlag, Konstanz 1969.
  • Positive all round. The book of good news . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-12317-7 .
  • Taken at your word. Side notes on the German language . Meier, Schaffhausen, ISBN 3-85801-141-X .
  • Word legumes. 83 Speech Contemplations . Friedrich Reinhardt, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7245-1615-6 .

literature

  • Volker Hanisch: Heisch, Peter . In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Volume 16, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-023162-5 , p. 132.
  • Johannes Wyss: Resignation of two long-standing SVDS board members. In: Sprachspiegel 72, 2016, p. 127 f. ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary on todeskundenportal.ch
personal data
SURNAME Hey, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, satirist and proofreader
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2019