Adelheid Duvanel

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Adelheid Duvanel (1936–1996) writer and painter. Celebrity burial ground in the Hörnli cemetery
Grave, cemetery on the Hörnli

Adelheid Duvanel (born April 23, 1936 in Basel ; † July 8, 1996 there ) was a Swiss writer and painter .

Life

Adelheid Duvanel, eldest daughter of the criminal court president Georg Feigenwinter (1904–1997) and Elisabeth Lichtenhahn, spent her childhood and youth in Pratteln and Liestal . She completed the arts and crafts school as well as an apprenticeship as a textile draftsman. After completing her training, she worked as an office worker and as an employee in an opinion research institute . Adelheid Duvanel was married to Joseph Edward Duvanel from 1962 to 1981 . Since 1962 she lived in Basel, apart from a longer stay with her husband and daughter in Formentera . She published her earlier texts in the Basler Nachrichten under the pseudonym "Judith Januar" before they were published posthumously in book form in 1997 and 2004 . Like her former husband in 1986, she committed suicide on the night of July 7th to 8th, 1996. She was the sister of the journalist Felix Feigenwinter (* 1939) and the sister-in-law of the journalist Gunild Feigenwinter (* 1940).

Artistic creation

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Adelheid Duvanel is often compared to Robert Walser and Regina Ullmann , but her work was and is largely unknown to the public. In addition to a few poems, she mainly wrote prose miniatures. These deal with people on the fringes of society, with failed existences. However, all these figures always retain their dignity. Duvanel's prose miniatures are often told from the perspective of women or children. The language has a daydreaming, sometimes even surrealistic character and is strongly condensed. So the writer Johanna Lier about Duvanel's work. Duvanel also left behind an extensive oeuvre of drawings. Part of it is in the museum in the warehouse in St. Gallen .

Awards

Works

  • Strange stories from Basel. (with Felix Feigenwinter and Gunild Regine Winter ). Moon book, Basel 1978.
  • Walls thin as skin. Good writings (GS 453), Basel 1979.
  • Wind stories. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1980.
  • The glasses museum. Stories. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1982.
  • Anna and me. Stories. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1985.
  • The missing house. Stories. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1988.
  • Grace period. Stories. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • The pen pal. Stories. Luchterhand, Munich 1995.
  • The last day of spring. Stories, ed. v. Klaus Siblewski . Afterword by Peter von Matt . Luchterhand, Munich 1997.
  • By my mother's hat. Stories. Afterword by Peter von Matt. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2004.

literature

  • Gudrun S. Krayfuss : Scheherezadel. A Basel author is discovered. Reflections on the life and work of Adelheid Duvanel. Isishaus, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-906427-01-3 .
  • Susanne Hofer: «... some meaning that nobody understands». The children's figures in Adelheid Duvanel's work. Licentiate thesis, University of Bern 1998.
  • Walls thin as skin. Drawings and paintings by the Swiss writer Adelheid Duvanel. Catalog for the exhibition of the Foundation for Swiss Naive Art and Art Brut. Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen 2009, ISBN 978-3-033-02125-9 .
  • Saskia Fischer : The right to remain silent. About the story "Kavalier" by Adelheid Duvanel. In: Federwelt - Journal for Authors, No. 64, June / July 2007, ISSN 1439-8362.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://habenlexikon.bl.ch/Georg_Feigenwinter
  2. ↑ Johanna Lier in: WOZ (WochenZeitung) from January 20, 2005, https://www.woz.ch/0503/adelheid-duvanel/sprachkosmos
personal data
SURNAME Duvanel, Adelheid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feigenwinter, Adelheid (maiden name); January, Judith (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1996
Place of death Basel