"With the Biel/Bienne town map showing Robert Walser’s favourite places in my hand, I climb up to his "Greek temple" in the light of late November to look out across the houses and the lake to the distant places where he travelled. Autumn time is theatre time. Time for the stage in the old town, where he himself played a robber in Schiller’s "Die Räuber". In the Untergasse I feel as though I can see his two men studying the magnificent window displays in the glow of the butcher’s shop. Did somebody just say, "Tongue, one franc forty"?"
Samuel
Info
In the centre of Biel/Bienne and its nearby surroundings, nine places from Robert Walser’s life are combined into a literary walk that tells his life story: childhood, schooldays, attempts at acting, life as an author, homecoming, misfortune in love, walks, restlessness and farewell.
In the area surrounding Biel/Bienne, five literary walks follow the landscapes and locations from Robert Walser’s prose and recount certain passages from the text: to the "End der Welt", onto St. Peter’s Island, to the Bözingenberg and around the lake.
Difficulty
This hike is regarded as easy, but it is important to wear good walking shoes.
Good to know
The map "Robert Walser’s Biel/Bienne – A literary path and hiking network" is available in German and French from the Stadtbibliothek (public library) at Dufourstrasse 26 or the Tourist Office, Bahnhofplatz 12.
Tourism Biel Seeland
Bahnhofplatz 12
2501 Biel/Bienne
T. +41 (0) 32 329 84 84
www.biel-seeland.ch
