Werner Sutermeister
Werner Sutermeister is a Swiss writer well known for his spoonerisms.Life
Werner Sutermeister was a son of Ernestine Moehrlen and Otto Sutermeister. attended Gymnasium Kirchenfeld in Berne. He then studied history, German philology and philosophy in Basel, Leipzig and Berne. In 1891 he became a teacher for secondary schools. 1894 he promoted with a dissertation about Klemens von Metternich’s relationship to Switzerland between 1840 and 1848.
For six years he worked as a teacher at the girls' school of Berne. In the spring of 1900 he was elected to the Gymnasium of Berne, where he taught History and German for 37 years. He also directed the orchestra of the Gymnasium.
Sutermeister also wrote for the Bernese daily newspaper Der Bund:
