Biography

Robert Walser was born on April 15, 1878 in Biel, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for Der Räuber, The Walk (2021) and The Year of Living Locked Up (2020). He died on December 25, 1956 in Herisau, Kanton Appenzell, Switzerland.

Befriended by Carl Seelig, whom eventually became his legal guardian when Walser's bouts of mental illness left him unable to properly care for himself.