Adolf Saager

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Adolf Saager

Adolf Saager (born April 20, 1879 in Stuttgart , † August 31, 1949 in Massagno ) was a Swiss journalist and writer . He also published under the pseudonym AS Edger .

Life

After graduating from the royal high school in Stuttgart, Adolf Saager attended the Technical University there from 1898 to 1901, where he passed the association examination, then studied natural sciences in Munich and Geneva and did his doctorate in Heidelberg. From 1907 he lived as a freelance writer and editor of the magazine Zeit im Bild in Munich. Here he founded in 1911 together with Karl Wilhelm Bührer the " International Institute for the Organization of Intellectual Work Die Brücke ", largely supported by Wilhelm Ostwald . Saager left Germany in 1914, lived briefly in his home town of Menziken and then settled in Ticino. He wrote for the National-Zeitung , translated a. a. Ignazio Silone and Felice Filippini and wrote biographies on Henry Ford , Count Zeppelin , Mussolini and Giuseppe Mazzini .

"You, dear friend, belong to those true Europeans who are now needed to lay the eternal foundations of spirit and truth for the League of Nations , without which this institution would be like a house on sand."

- From a letter from Rainis to Adolf Saager dated September 12, 1919

The big theme of Saager's novels was the reconciliation of nations. Between 1939 and 1945 he was silent, bitter about the Swiss press censorship , and saved a number of political refugees from deportation. In 1945 he unsuccessfully called for the contacts between the Swiss Writers' Association (SSV) and the Nazi regime to be clarified.

Works (selection)

  • The world of matter. A common understanding of chemistry . Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1907
  • Three times a hundred thousand devils! The funniest anecdote book . (Library of Anecdotes, Vol. 10). Published by Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1909
  • The mystery of Kaspar Hauser . Published by Fr.Seybold's Buchhandlung, Ansbach 1911
  • Blücher anecdotes. A character picture of Marshal Forward . Published by Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1913
  • The fruit of the world war . Publishing house by Robert Lutz, Stuttgart [2. Edition] 1915
  • Zeppelin. The man, the fighter, the winner . Lutz, Stuttgart 1915
  • Our enemy the war . Müller, Munich 1918
  • Humanity. Future novel of the spirit of the League of Nations . Salvatore publishing house, Lugano 1923
  • Henry Ford. Will - Work. A character image . Hallwag, Bern 1924
  • The conspirators' nest in Ticino . Humorous detective novel (published under the pseudonym AS Edger). Orell Füssli, Zurich 1925
  • Reconciliation . Novel. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1925
  • Mussolini without a myth. From rebel to despot . Hess & Co, Vienna 1931
  • Mazzini. An idealist's tragedy . Europa-Verlag, Zurich 1935

As editor

  • From the life of a Viennese Phäaken 1781-1862. The memoirs of I. F. Castelli , re-edited by Adolf Saager (memoir library, IV. Series, eighth volume). Verlag von Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1912 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Blücher's letters to his wife . Published by Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1912
  • Wilhelm Ritter Gründorf von Zebegény : Memoirs of an Austrian General Staff 1832-1866 . Published by Robert Lutz, Stuttgart 1913
  • Wenzel Krimer : Memories of an old Lützow hunter 1795–1819 (2 vols.). Verlag von Robert Lutz, Stuttgart undated [approx. 1913]
  • Mr. Pepi Huber's war experiences . Georg Müller, Munich a. Berlin 1916
  • Luther anecdotes. Pictures of life - anecdotes - key messages . Publishing house by Robert Lutz, Stuttgart o. J.

As translator

  • Helen Keller : Letters from when I was growing up . Publishing house by Robert Lutz, Stuttgart undated [1918]
  • Egidio Reale : The Origins of Modern Italy . Translated and with an afterword by Adolf Saager. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1944
  • Ignazio Silone: bread and wine . Novel. Oprecht [& Helbling], Zurich 1936

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from: CV , in: About derivatives of phenoxazines. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the High Natural Sciences and Mathematics Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg , Stuttgart 1902, p. [48] ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Quoted from: Observers: Vai tā bija mana drauga nāves stunda? Pie Raiņa drauga Kastaņolā in the daily newspaper Jaunākās Ziņas № 232 of October 13, 1934, p. 7, digitized (PDF, 21.3 MB) from the LNB . Translated from the Latvian by Matthias Knoll .
personal data
SURNAME Saager, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edger, AS (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1949
Place of death Massagno