Resident

Florian Bissig
From 12 April to 27 April 2021

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Florian Bissig was born in 1979 and studied in Zurich, Berlin, and Austin. Graduating with a degree in philosophy, he went on to earn a PhD in English philology with a study of S.T. Coleridge (Coleridge and Communication, published by Trier in 2015). He works as a freelance journalist and critic in the areas of literature, music and the humanities for various Swiss publications. He is the author of a short critical anthology of Swiss poetry (Mauerlängs durch die Nacht, Limbus Verlag), which was published by Limbus Verlag in 2018. He is currently translating Coleridge’s verse into German while writing a biography of the English poet.