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Friedrich Glauser (4 February 1896 in Vienna – 8 December 1938 in Nervi) was a German-language Swiss writer.

Biography

Glauser was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel Gourrama, written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his own experiences at the French Foreign Legion.

The evening before his wedding day, he suffered a stroke caused by cerebral infarction, and died two days later.

A year after his death, the 1939 film Thumbprint was released featuring Glauser's character Sergeant Studer, which became a commercial success.

Friedrich Glauser's literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Since 1987, the annual Glauser Prize [de] has been one of the best-known German-language crime writing awards.

Stories

The Sergeant Studer detective novels are set in the Switzerland and Europe of the 1930s, and make frequent reference to current European history, such as the Weimar Republic hyperinflation and the banking scams and scandals that marked that period. Today's readers may be surprised that no attention is given to a prominent politician of that era, Adolf Hitler.

The novels were written in standard German with a sprinkling of Helvetisms. The translations by Bitter Lemon Press make note of shifts in language register.

Jakob Studer is a sergeant in the constabulary of the Canton of Bern. He is old for his rank, having had to start over again in a new police force after being fired from his original force. The firing is mentioned in each novel as being politically motivated, because Studer refused to back off from a full investigation of a banking scandal in which he eventually caught the real criminals, well-connected top people in the banking industry, rather than making do with a few minor players. Other minor characters, notably his cheerful wife and a local attorney with whom Studer plays billiards, play small roles within the books, sometim

Friedrich Glauser (1896-1938) was a Swiss author who wrote in German. He was born in Vienna, the son auf a Swiss father and an Austrian mother. Twice expelled from school, he quit his studies early and his father had put him under tutelage. From 1921 to 1923 he served in the Foreign Legion in North Africa after which he worked as a labourer in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Diagnosed a schizophrenic, addicted to morphine and convicted for forging prescriptions he spent a part of his later years in jails and asylums. He died 1938 on the eve of his marriage in Genua, Italy.

"Actually I was only contented when in jail or in an asylum" --- Friedrich Glauser

Glauser wrote six detective stories, five of them featuring Sergeant Jacob Studer of Bern police. The novels are modelled on the Commissaire Maigret stories by Georges Simenon, as the author freely admitted. Not the criminal case as such is the main issue but the people and the atmosphere in which they move. Both Maigret and Studer are petit-bourgeois, in both cases the whole personality does the investigation, not just the intellect and both are very different from their authors . But while the action of the Maigrets takes place mostly in Metropolitan France, Studer operates in Swiss villages, where investigations seem to be much more difficult:

Glauser had a certain success in the 1930s, one novel being even made into a film. But his rang was only fully appreciated in the 1960s. Today he is recognized as the most important Golden Age writer in the German language. After him Germany's most prestigious crime fiction award is called the Glauser prize. Thankfully the Studer novels have been translated into English recent

Friedrich Glauser (4 February 1896  – 8 December 1938) was a German-language Swiss writer. He was born in Vienna, the son of a Swiss father and an Austrian mother. Twice expelled from school, he quit his studies early and his father put him under tutelage. From 1921 to 1923 he served in the Foreign Legion in North Africa after which he worked as a labourer in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Diagnosed a schizophrenic, addicted to morphine and convicted for forging prescriptions he spent a part of his later years in jails and asylums. The evening before his wedding day, he suffered a stroke caused by cerebral infarction, and died two days later in Nervi near Genoa. Friedrich Glauser’s literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Since 1987, the annual Glauser Prize has been one of the best-known German-language crime writing awards.

Glauser wrote six detective stories, five of them featuring Sergeant Jacob Studer of Bern police. The novels are modelled on the Commissaire Maigret stories by Georges Simenon, as the author freely admitted. Not the criminal case as such is the main issue but the people and the atmosphere in which they move. Both Maigret and Studer are petit-bourgeois, in both cases the whole personality does the investigation, not just the intellect and both are very different from their authors .

In 1939, a year after Glauser’s death, the film of ‘Thumbprint’, the first Sergeant Studer mystery, was greeted with critical acclaim and commercial success. Studer became more famous than his creator, the mark of true success for a fictional detective.

Friedrich Glauser’s Detective Stories: Besides Der Tee der drei alten Damen (The Three Old Ladies’ Tea, 1941), –written between 1931 and 1934–were Glauser played with humour and irony with the cliché of the detective novel, he left us a series of crime stories featuring Sergeant Jacob Studer: Wachtmeister Studer, 1936; [English translation: Th