class A Swiss cultural property of national significance
Part of
Swiss National Library
Director
Irmgard Wirtz Eybl
Website
www.nb.admin.ch/snl/fr/home/portrait/als.html
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The Swiss Literary Archives (SLA - Schweizerische Literaturarchiv) in Bern collects literary estates in all four national languages of Switzerland (German, French, Italian and Romansh language). It is part of the Swiss National Library operated by the Federal Office of Culture within the Federal Department of Home Affairs.[1]
The archives were founded in 1991 and are located in the building of the Swiss National Library.[2] The foundation can be tracked back to the last will of the writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, who died in 1989. Dürrenmatt gave his literary remains to the state, but under the condition that the state establishes a national archive for literature.
Typewriters of authors in the Swiss Literary Archives
The Swiss Literary Archives today contain around 100 important literary estates and premortal-estates and about 120 partial estates and collections, including material from:
Peter Bichsel
Cla Biert
Hermann Burger
Erika Burkart
Blaise Cendrars
Alice Ceresa
Jacques Chessex
Gion Deplazes
Albert Einstein
Heinrich Federer
Anna Felder
Jean Gebser
Friedrich Glauser
Eveline Hasler
Hermann Hesse
Patricia Highsmith[3]
Ludwig Hohl
Urs Jaeggi
Walther Kauer
Peider Lansel
Hugo Loetscher
Lorenz Lotmar
Golo Mann
Grytzko Mascioni
Mani Matter
Mariella Mehr
Niklaus Meienberg
Adolf Muschg
Alberto Nessi
Paul Nizon
Giovanni Orelli
Erica Pedretti
Andri Peer
Josef Reinhart
Rainer Maria Rilke
Isolde Schaad
Hendri Spescha
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Carl Spitteler
Verena Stefan
Beat Sterchi
Walter Vogt
Otto F. Walter
Silja Walter
Jean Starobinski
Étienne Barilier
Georges Poulet
Georges Borgeaud
Roger Dragonetti
Agota Kristof
Maurice Chappaz
S. Corinna Bille
Gonzague de Reynold
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