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Verena Stössinger
 
Written by
Frode Helland
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Verena Stössinger is a Swiss author, journalist and teacher. She was born in Lucerne in 1951, studied Northern Languages, German Studies and Sociology in Basel and Aarhus after a few years of theatre in Berlin. She worked at the University of Basel, taught there occasionally in new Scandinavian literature, is a cultural journalist, and an editor.

Birth
25 November 1951
Regions
Lucern, Berlin, Basel, Århus, Binningen

In 1980 she made her literary debut with Ninakind. As the mother of type designer Nina Stössinger, Verena contributed an essay to our Nordvest Tour travelog, celebrating the release of Nina’s Nordvest typeface.

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I took the ferry to Nólsoy to meet with Emil Thomsen, an old publisher. I had arranged a visit, and I had been warned: he was less of a brainworker than a businessman; previously the Electrolux sales representative for these islands, he eventually acquired a printing press and started publishing literature both old and new. A sly fox with the memory of an aging elephant. Meanwhile, though, he was said to have gone deaf. So, after knocking on his front door a number of times, I decided just to enter the house.
 

Excerpt from Nordlandliebe, published 2009 by Verlag Martin Wallimann.

Literature

Agentur Altas. (n.d.). Stössinger Verena. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from agenturatlas.ch

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Helland, F., Bremnes, S., Stordal, H.I., Stössinger, V., Stössinger, N. & Litherland, C. (2016). Nordvest Tour [Travelog]. Monokrom Skriftforlag. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from monokrom.no

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Stössinger, V. (1980). Ninakind [Nina-child]. Zytglogge Verlag.

Stössinger, V. (2016a). A visit to Nólsoy. In Nordvest Tour [Travelog]. Monokrom Skriftforlag. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from monokrom.no

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Stössinger, N. (2016b). Nordvest [typeface]. Monokrom Skriftforlag.

A Visit to Nólsoy