Background
Allemann was born in 1948 in Schlieren, near Zurich, but grew up in Bonn and Berlin.
Allemann was born in 1948 in Schlieren, near Zurich, but grew up in Bonn and Berlin.
He studied German and English at the University of Marburg and sociology and social psychology at the University of Hanover.
From 1975 to 1976 he was editor of the magazine Theater heute. From 1986 to 2005 he was literary editor on the arts section of the Basler Zeitung newspaper in Basel.