Jürg Beeler
Biography
Jürg Beeler, born in Zurich in 1957, studied German, comparative literature and literary criticism in Geneva, Tübingen and Zurich. He wrote reviews, essays and travelogues for various newspapers (including NZZ). Since 1995 he has been working as a freelance writer. After lengthy stays in Spain, Italy and Germany, he has lived in Narbonne, southern France, since 2017.
In 1986 his first volume of poetry was published (Ammann Verlag, Zurich). Five novels followed, all published by Haymon (Innsbruck). Most recently he published The man who wrote Balzac's novels (2014, Dörlemann Zurich) and a book of poems In strange rooms (2017, Edition Wolfbach Zurich).
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The birds are returning
The experience of being a stranger, of being lost and of exile runs like a red thread through his poems. They are snapshots, often concrete situations, captured in short lines. Through the imagery specific to the poems, they point beyond themselves and are embedded in a larger poetic context.
