Schubiger, Jurg

Born in Zurich in the family of the publisher, raised in Winterthur . He studied at a commercial school, worked as a student in a cardboard factory, as a carpenter, as an auxiliary worker in a construction site, as a gardener in Southern France, and as a copywriter in an advertising agency in Zurich. In 1957-1959, he independently prepared and passed an exam for a certificate of maturity. He studied German studies, psychology and philosophy at the University of Zurich and received a PhD in 1969, defending a dissertation on F. Kafka 's story “Metamorphoses”. In 1969-1979 he worked in a pedagogical publishing house and at the same time studied group psychotherapy . Since 1979 he worked as a private psychotherapist and at the same time conducted literary work.

In the work of Schubiger, mythology and everyday reality, fairy tales and philosophical reflections are wonderfully intertwined. Schubiger’s short stories written for children are in many ways similar to classic tales, many of which are animals or objects. His works for children include poems , short stories, comics and short stories, but he also has novels. About the works of Schubiger, they say that he writes about the adult world, looking at him from the world of childhood. The main characters of Schubiger’s books are children who discover the world; it would seem that then the same inquisitive children should be the main readers, but Schubiger’s books attract many adults as well, because of their philosophical depth and life wisdom hiding behind deliberate simplicity. ^[five]

In 1960 he married, he had two sons. He lived until his death in Zurich with his second wife, Renata Benninger, he had seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

• 1996: German Prize for Children's Literature
• 1996: Swiss Prize for Books for Children and Youth for the book Als die Welt noch jung war
• 1997: “Silver Feather” for the book Als die Welt noch jung war
• 2003: Schiller Prize of the Bank of the Canton of Zurich for the book Haller und Helen
• 2004: "Lux" for the book Seltsame Abenteuer des Don Quijote
• 2005: Swiss Prize for Books for Children and Youth for the book Die Geschichte von Wilhelm Tell
• 2008: H.K. Andersen Prize
• 2009: Zolliker Art Award for Die kleine Liebe
• 2010: Suite for Der Wind hat Geburtstag .

Works for children

• Dieser Hund heißt Himmel . Tag- und Nachtgeschichten. Beltz und Gelberg, Weinheim 1978, ISBN 3-407-80541-1
• Das Löwengebrüll . Märchen, Geschichten. Beltz und Gelberg, Weinheim 1988, ISBN 3-407-80190-4
• Als die Welt noch jung war . Beltz und Gelberg, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-407-79653-6 ; Taschenbuch ebd. 2000, ISBN 3-407-78393-0
  • When the world was new: stories Annick Press Ltd., 1996, ISBN 978-1-55037-500-8
• Mutter, Vater, ich und sie . Erzählung. Beltz und Gelberg, Weinheim 1997, ISBN 3-407-79748-6 ; Taschenbuch ebd. 2001, ISBN 3-407-78479-1
• Wo ist das Meer? Geschichten. Beltz und Gelberg, Weinheim 2000, ISBN 3-407-79806-7 ; Taschenbuch ebd. 2003, ISBN 3-407-78554-2
• Seltsame Abenteuer des Don Quijote . Aufbau, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-351-04046-6
• Die Geschichte von Wilhelm Tell. Nagel & Kimche, München 2003, ISBN 3-312-00942-1 ; DTV, München 2006, ISBN 3-423-62268-7
• Aller Anfang (with Franz Hohler). Beltz und Gelberg, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 3-407-79914-4
• Der weiße und der schwarze Bär . Hammer, Wuppertal 2007, ISBN 978-3-7795-0078-0
• Zebra, Zecke, Zauberwort (with Isabel Pin). Hammer, Wuppertal 2009, ISBN 978-3-7795-0226-5 ;
• Der Wind hat Geburtstag . Hammer, Wuppertal 2010, ISBN 978-3-7795-0282-1
• De Strubelpeter . Mundartfassung. Elfundzehn, Eglisau 2010, ISBN 978-3-905769-20-3

Prose

• Barbara . Erzählung. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1956
• Guten Morgen . Eine Erzählung. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1958
• Die vorgezeigten Dinge . Geschichten. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1972, ISBN 3-7296-0010-9
• Haus der Nonna. Eine Kindheit in Tessin (with Joli Schubiger-Cedraschi). Huber, Frauenfeld 1980; überarbeitete Neuausgabe: Limmat, Zürich 1996, ISBN 3-85791-270-7
• Unerwartet grün . Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-472-86564-4
• Hin- und Hergeschichten (with Franz Hohler). Nagel & Kimche, Zürich 1986, ISBN 3-312-00118-8 ; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-29258-1
• Hinterlassene Schuhe . Novel Nagel & Kimche, Zürich 1989, ISBN 3-312-00142-0
• Haller und Helen . Novel Haymon, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-85218-396-0
• Das Ausland Hammer, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-87294-929-2
• Du stehst in meinen Leben herum. Journal zu zweit (mit Renate Schubiger). Zytglogge, Oberhofen 2004, ISBN 3-7296-0681-6
• Die kleine Liebe . Novel Haymon, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-85218-558-3

• Jurg Schubiger on the website of the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature. M. I. Rudomino
• Schweizer Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller der Gegenwart - Jürg Schubiger (German)