«Thanks that you are listening to me
instead of reading the news.
Time is money,
 and my words do weight less
than the dust on your sill.»

A poem from «Ohrenblicke», (Ear Flickers) © 1991



  
   
The Writer
 

«The author transforms language into perfumes and sounds, into impressions and landscapes, with intense and stunning pictures.»
Literary commission of the City of Berne, on handing over the literary award

...for me the most authentic children program today. «Slumberland» is close to kids, paedagogically perfectly adapted to their world. Musically with best notes! A. Tschanz, Swiss Tour DAS ZELT 2007
 

«Out of his sensitive poems speaks a brilliant writer who is leading us through the wide dimensions of thinking and feeling.»
twm, BUND

«Distant islands are as much his domain as the realm of the word or the empire of the inner self!"
B.Häusler, BERNER BäR
 

«Is here in this literature a new romanticism being created? Is it a turning away from a super technical world, a going back to the roots?»
Der Beobachter

Critics, media articles and photos
 

 
 
The Musician

 
Since 1979 Roland Zoss has been singing about the longings of a generation for emotional warmth and open-mindedness about the world. As a sensitive singer and gifted lyricist he often glides ahead of time on the wings of poetry.

Roland Zoss is a singing poet and soft rebel who goes his very own way, creating gentle songs that open the doors to your soul. He is a man moving between the cultures of Europe and the world, between words and sounds, between children and grown-ups.

His poetry and music thrills many not only in Switzerland, but also in Germany, Australia and the USA.

After his success with two highly acclaimed recordings and books for KIDS:"Xenegugeli"; "Muku-Tiki-Mu" (World Childrens music), "Gueschi", "Slumberland". Roland Zoss just released a lovely Album trilogy about Swiss mythologies and the tiny mouse Jimmy-Flitz.
The cheeky mouse flyies as musical ambassador for kids on board SWISS International Airlines.


 
The Biography

Born in 1951 in the sign of «Leo» in Berne, Switzerland

1975-82: Study of Anthropology, Languages (German, French, Italian), Music and Painting at the Universities of Avignon, France, and Berne, Switzerland.

Took long trips to Latin America, Australia, India, and the Mediterranean.

1987-2004 teaches languages, literature and rock music at a vocational school as well as at the Academy of Booksellers in Berne.

2005 start as an independent singer and author for kids

 Roland Zoss belongs
with Herbert Grönemeyer
and Konstantin Wecker

to the great german songpoets!
Rolf Zuckowski
producer/composer, Hamburg


 

All CDs and books you can find in the Bibliography.
 

 

Want to hear a song in MP3?
"Bleib hier"  - love song
"Xenegugeli"- children's song.
"Eseli Elia" - raï-pop song
"JimmyFlitz" - mouse rock

Swiss lullabys:
Train to slumberland
Lila-lula
(feat. Shirley Grimes)

Songs from the trilogy of the mouse «Jimmy-Flitz»
Swiss trilogy main theme





Get the songs of Roland Zoss (some in english feat. Michael Mish) on iTunes or EMusic!

 

 
Public Performances in Switzerland
 

Performances for Kids


 

 

 

Visit some of my writing collegues in the Swiss Writers Union.
 
Visit my singing and rocking friends at Sound Service, Gümligen