Max Lüthi

Max Lüthi (born March 11, 1909 in Bern ; † June 20, 1991 in Zurich ) was a Swiss literary scholar and fairytale interpreter of the 20th century .

Life

Between 1928 and 1935 Lüthi studied German , history and English literature at the Universities of Bern , Lausanne , London and Berlin , where he passed the grammar school teacher examination in his final year . From 1936 he was the main teacher of German at the Höhere Töchterschule in Zurich . In Bern he received his doctorate in 1943 with the work Die Gabe im Märchen und der Sage . In 1968 the chair for European Folk Literature was created for him at the University of Zurich , where he worked until his retirement in 1979. In the same year he was appointed honorary professor. 1973 to 1984 he was editor of the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales .

Max Lüthi's scientific estate is in the Zurich University Archives .

Awards

• 1979: Grand Prize of the Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur eV Volkach
• 1988: European fairy tales price of tales Foundation Walter Kahn

Works (selection)

• The gift in fairy tales and in legend. A contribution to the understanding of the essence and the distinction between the two forms. Bern 1943.
• The European folk tale. Form and essence. A literary presentation. Bern 1947.
• Shakespeare's Dramas. Berlin 1957.
• Folk tales and folk tales. Two basic forms of narrative poetry. Bern / Munich 1961
• There was once. On the essence of the folk tale. Göttingen 1962 (Kleine Vandenhoeck series; 136/137).
• Fairy tale. Stuttgart 1962 (Metzler collection. Reality books for Germanists. Dept. E. Poetics; 16).
• Shakespeare. Poet of the real and the non-real. Bern 1964 (Dalp-Taschenbücher; 373).
• That's how they still live today. Reflections on folk tales. Göttingen 1969 (Kleine Vandenhoeck series; 294/295/296).
• Folk literature and high literature. Image of man, topic, striving for form. Munich [u. a.] 1970.
• The folk tale as poetry. Aesthetics and Anthropology. Düsseldorf 1975 (studies on folk tales; 1).
• About the essence of the fairy tale. Heilbronn 1989 (Troubadour; 1989.1).

literature

• Hermann Bausinger : Max Lüthi on his 70th birthday. In: Fabula . Vol. 20 (1979), pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1515 / fabl.1979.20.1.1 ( PDF ).
• Katalin Horn: Max Lüthi (1909–1991). In: Fabula. Vol. 33 (1992), H. 1/2, pp. 121-126, doi: 10.1515 / fabl.1992.33.1-2.121 ( PDF ).
• Rudolf Schenda : Lüthi, Max. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen . 8: 1307-1313 (1996).

Web links

• Works by and about Max Lüthi  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Lüthi's estate at the UZH archive