author
Ulrich Kiebler
1864–1929
A Swiss gardener and agricultural teacher, he wrote with warmth and close observation about rural life in Graubünden. His best-known work captures the people, labor, and everyday feeling of the Swiss countryside.
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Aus Berg und Tal: Charakterbilder aus dem schweizer. Bauernleben
by Ulrich Kiebler
About the author
Born in 1864, Ulrich Kiebler was a Swiss writer connected to agriculture as well as literature. Contemporary catalog and book records identify him as a gardener and a teacher at the agricultural school Plantahof in Graubünden, a background that clearly shaped the subjects he chose to write about.
He is best known for Aus Berg und Tal: Charakterbilder aus dem schweizer. Bauernleben, published in Chur in 1905. The book presents vivid sketches of Swiss peasant life, and its appeal comes from how closely it seems to observe work, landscape, and local character rather than treating country life as a distant ideal.
Kiebler died in 1929. Though not widely known today, his writing remains valuable for readers interested in older Swiss regional literature and in firsthand, literary portraits of rural society.