Prof. Dr. Adolf Muschg (*1934, Switzerland) is a writer. After studying German studies, English studies and philosophy in Zurich and Cambridge he gained his doctorate on Ernst Barlach. He taught as a grammar school teacher in Zurich, and finally as a university lecturer, including in Germany (University of Göttingen), Japan and the USA. From 1970 to 1999 he was professor of German language and literature at the Swiss Technical University Zurich. After a period spent in Japan his first, critically acclaimed, novel “Im Sommer des Hasen” appeared. There followed numerous literary and essay publications for which Adolf Muschg received many awards, including in 1994 the Georg Büchner Prize. His most well-known publications include Albissers Grund (1974), Literatur als Therapie (1981), Der Rote Ritter. Eine Geschichte von Parzival (1993), Wenn Auschwitz in der Schweiz liegt: fünf Reden eines Schweizers an seine und keine Nation (1997), Sutters Glück (2002) and Der Schein trügt nicht. Über Goethe (2004). Since 1976 he has been a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and was its president from 2003 to 2006.