Background
Dean was born in Menziken to a Swiss mother and an Indian physician from Trinidad.
Dean was born in Menziken to a Swiss mother and an Indian physician from Trinidad.
In 1986, he finished his studies with a licentiate work about Hans Henny Jahnn’s novel "Perrudja", and graduated summa cum laude.
In 1976, he obtained his university entrance diploma at grammar school in Aarau. In 1977, he began studying German, philosophy, and ethnology at Universität Basel. He traveled extensively and lived abroad for many years, in places such as South America, Portugal, France, Greece and Italy.
From 1990 to 1998, he taught at the Schule für Gestaltung (School for Design) in Basel.
In 1999, he started teaching German and philosophy at the grammar school in Muttenz. Dean lives and works as a free writer and publicist in Basel.