That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Peter Bichsel's estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. After finishing school he became an elementary school teacher a job which he held until 1968. Peter Bichsel (born March 24 1935) is a popular Swiss-German writer and journalist representing modern German literature.

This theme has helped make Peter Bichsel a symbol of German literary work today. Conversely we have every opportunity to prevent our lives from being boring. One of his first and most well-known works is And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman.