Adrien Turel

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Adrien Turel (born June 5, 1890 in Saint Petersburg , † June 29, 1957 in Zurich ) was a Swiss writer.

Life

Adrien Turel was born in 1890 as the son of Swiss-German parents in the capital of what was then the Russian Empire . From 1891 he grew up in a country estate near Lausanne , then from 1900 in Berlin . There he attended the Leibniz Gymnasium and studied German, Romance studies and history from 1912. In 1917, he learned about Magnus Hirschfeld and Heinrich Korber the psychoanalysis know, abandoned his studies and worked for two years as a teacher at the French school . Suspected as a Spartakist , he was imprisoned in Moabit for two months. He wrote articles for various newspapers and found a friend in Oskar Loerke who in 1919 published his first volume of essays at S. Fischer Verlag . In 1923 he married Margarethe Kallmeyer; the marriage - with a common daughter - was divorced in 1926.

From around 1927 to 1930 Turel lived with Adolf Moritz Steinschneider in Frankfurt am Main . From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the editorial team of the journal "Opponents" published by Franz Jung - a paper that endeavors to address young people from all denominations and political directions. In March 1932 Harro Schulze-Boysen was appointed editor of this magazine and tried to give the paper a new character. The ongoing "opponent" issues were accompanied by monthly discussion evenings, the participants of which were primarily young people who asked questions and wanted to hear answers. As a permanent collaborator and discussant, Turel, as a “cross-world thinker”, took part very often in these discussion groups. For the young coming from the Jewish youth movement, Turel was a main spiritual attraction of these evenings. He was a universal thinker, a generalist at home in many disciplines and gave his listeners unconventional food for thought. Many found dealing with him an enrichment. From July 1932, Harro Schulze-Boysen was the editor of the newly structured magazine, which was now called "Gegner" but primarily works with the previous network of the "Opponent Circle". After Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reich President on January 30, 1933, it had become immensely difficult to carry out normal press work and discussion groups on political issues. Concerned by the escalating violence of the SA and SS units, the supporters and interested parties of the “enemy” met in private rooms. In mid-February 1933, the political police became aware of the activities of the "enemy". The Berlin State Criminal Police Office then published a notice that the "circle of opponents" would be a radical communist association. This announcement led to an SS Sturm unit occupying the editorial offices at the end of April 1933 and arresting all those present. Including Harro Schulze-Boysen, Henry Erlanger and Adrien Turel. All three were mistreated and taken to a wild concentration camp that night. When the SS found out that Turel was a Swiss citizen, they released him. After this experience, he quickly tried to leave Germany again. At the end of 1934, after a six-month stay in Paris , he returned to Switzerland and from then on devoted himself as a freelance writer to formulating his idiosyncratic, utopian view of man and the world. During the war he also tried his hand at writing a novel: The smaller, science-fiction- like detective novel Die Greiselwerke was published in Zurich in 1942; the two more extensive works were only published posthumously by the "Adrien Turel Foundation" founded in 1958 by his second wife Lucie Turel-Welti. In 1952 Turel, who had been decried as a communist, joined the SP .

He found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery .

His estate is in the Zurich Central Library .

Works

Poetry

  • The day is approaching . Kentaur, Wolgast 1918
  • Christ's world passion . The forge, Berlin 1924
    • New edition as a world passion : Oprecht, Zurich 1940
  • From the mantle of the world . Stampfenbach, Zurich 1947
  • Seize today . Tschudy (Der Bogen, volume 36), St. Gallen 1954
  • Eros Demiurgos (poems and fragments). Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1959
  • World string man . Selected poems, ed. v. Hans Rudolf Hilty . Tschudy (Square Books 13), St. Gallen 1960

Prose works

  • The Greiselwerke . Detective novel. Oprecht, Zurich 1942
    • New edition by Charles Linsmayer , with an afterword by Martin Kraft: Ex Libris, Zurich 1981
  • Your work should be your home. The life of Marshal Moritz von Sachsen . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1942
  • The twelve months of Dr. Ludwig Stulter . Novel, completed in March 1942. Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1959
    • New edition: Edition Moderne, Zurich 1984
  • Journey of a termite to humans. A travel report? A utopia? A satyr? Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1960
    • New edition: Edition Moderne, Zurich 1983
  • Heroism and impotence of the Bailli de Suffren. Tragedy of a sea hero . Transcript, completed in 1952 (fragmentary). Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1961

Essay volumes and non-fiction books

  • Self redemption . Fischer, Berlin 1919
  • Rebirth of power from ability . Three masks, Munich 1921
  • No god but humanity! Insertion of the diagonal category of becoming into being and into work . Self-published, Frankfurt am Main 1929
  • Conquering the afterlife . Rowohlt, Berlin 1931
  • Right to revolution . Hoffmann, Berlin 1932
  • Technocracy, autarky, genetocracy . Hoffmann, Berlin 1934
  • Bachofen - Freud . For the emancipation of men from the realm of mothers . Huber, Bern 1939
  • Measurement system of historical values . Europe, Zurich 1944
  • From Altamira to Bikini. Humanity as a system of omnipotence . Stampfenbach, Zurich 1947
  • Russia and America's race to conquer the afterlife . Diana, Zurich 1950
  • General attack on the personality and its defense. In addition to a name register and an appendix: TERMS AND WORDS that can be read with benefit . Self-published, Zurich 1955
  • The third and final stage of the world revolution . Volksverlag, Elgg 1957
  • "... and nothing fell on a good country - but on arid land of prejudice". Attempt to bundle some of my scattered, printed or reviewed articles in a meaningful way . Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1958
  • William Shakespeare . On the unity and diversity of the great creators (fragment from 1939). Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1961
    • New edition: Edition Moderne, Zurich 1986

Autobiographical

  • Record of an unsuccessful life . Self-published, Zurich 1956
  • Balance II: Accountability report of an eternally unemployed . Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1959
  • Ecce superhomo. Man is wrong, he is not yet a man . A series of notes on an autobiography from the war year 1943, in chronological order. Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1960
  • Splitter (selection of excerpts from unprinted manuscripts, almost exclusively drafts for autobiography). Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1961
  • Story of our future. Ecce Superhomo Volume II. New assignments and new entanglements . Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1963

literature

  • François Bondy and others: About Adrien Turel . Adrien Turel Foundation, Zurich 1974
  • Bettina Bosch: Adrien Turel , in: Helvetian profiles. 47 writers from German-speaking Switzerland since 1800 . Edited by the Zurich Seminar for Literary Criticism with Werner Weber , pp. 265–271. Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1981
  • Hugo Eberhardt: Experiment Übermensch. Adrien Turel's literary work . Zurich 1984
  • Hugo Eberhardt, Wolfgang Bortlik (eds.): Adrien Turel. For the 100th birthday . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89401-179-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Coppi / Geertje Andresen, This death fits me, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 1999 p. 149f.
  2. ↑ Hans Coppi / Geertje Andresen, This death fits me, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 1999 p. 159ff.
personal data
SURNAME Turel, Adrien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1957
Place of death Zurich