Jakob Flach

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Jakob Flach (born March 26, 1894 in Winterthur , Canton of Zurich ; † September 30, 1982 in Locarno , Canton of Ticino ) was a Swiss writer , puppeteer and painter .

Life

Jakob Flach was the son of a trade unionist and social democratic politician who was involved in the cooperative movement . He spent his youth in Winterthur and was an active member of the Wandervogel movement from 1910 to 1919 . He began studying botany and geology at the ETH Zurich , which he broke off in 1917; afterwards he studied pedagogy at the University of Zurich and received the patent as a primary school teacher in 1919 , but did not practice the teaching profession. He moved to Arcegno in Ticino , where he worked as a painter and writer. In addition, he undertook extensive trips and hikes in Europe, the Middle East , India and Africa. Flach was connected to the artists of Monte Verità ; he was u. a. friends with Hermann Hesse .

After he had been the caretaker of Emil Ludwig's villa in 1921/22 , Flach lived in an old mill near Arcegno from 1925 . From 1928 he worked as a director at the Swiss Marionette Theater in Zurich. In 1937 he was a co-founder of the "Asconeser Artists' Marionette Theater", which he directed for 24 years and for which he wrote a large number of puppet shows . In 1959 he was a co-founder of the Swiss Association for Puppetry (SVfP). Flach also made a name for himself as a manufacturer of marionettes .

Jakob Flax's literary work includes, in addition to puppet shows, novels, short stories and the cookbook Minestra . He was from the Canton of Zurich and in 1959 by the city of Winterthur with a Ehrengabe excellent.

Works

  • Those unable to attend , Freiburg i.Br. 1929
  • Minestra , Frauenfeld [u. a.] 1937
  • Vita vagorum , Frauenfeld 1945
  • Nordic summer , Zurich 1946
  • We are building a puppet theater , SJW No. 410, Zurich 1951
  • Bridal trip without end , Frauenfeld 1959
  • Ascona yesterday and today , Zurich [u. a.] 1960
  • Black Africa for beginners. A trip through savannah, jungle and reserves. With some warnings , Zurich 1965
  • with Erich Behrendt : Ticino - sketches and impressions . Hamburg 1965
  • Country and people of a certain island , Arcegno, Ticino 1966
  • The Lords of the World , Arcegno 1967
  • In that village , Arcegno 1974
  • A guy named Ibrahim , Bern 1990
  • On the art of walking: prose pieces . Edited with an afterword by Magnus Wieland. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-0340-1286-7 .

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SURNAME Flat, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, puppeteer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur , Canton of Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1982
Place of death Locarno , Canton Ticino