Albert Ehrismann

Albert Ehrismann (born September 20, 1908 in Zurich ; † February 10, 1998 ibid) was a Swiss poet , playwright and narrator.

Life

Ehrismann, the son of the magazine Albert Ehrismann and the seamstress Emma Suter, came from humble circumstances. He initially worked as an accountant, but then began writing around 1929 when he became unemployed. The socially committed Ehrismann refused to do military service and was sentenced to prison in 1932. In 1934 he was one of the co-founders of the Cabaret Cornichon . After the war, Ehrismann wrote very successfully for the magazine Nebelspalter for years , and also earned his living by writing commissioned poems for the advertising industry. In 1978 he received the Literature Prize of the City of Zurich.

He found his final resting place in the communal grave at the Manegg cemetery in Zurich .

power

Ehrismann, who also wrote plays and short stories, was primarily a poet. In contrast to most of his contemporaries, he devoted himself to socially critical issues from the city's milieu . Despite the large number of verses he has created, his poems always seem original and fresh. He achieved notoriety and popularity through the years of weekly publication of Ehrismann's poems in the Nebelspalter . As an anthology of his works put it in the title, Ehrismann was both a “pessimist and a moralist”.

Prices

1940: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize

Works

• Smiles on the asphalt (poems). Orell Füssli, Zurich 1930.
• sailors and captains (poems). Oprecht and Helbling, Zurich 1932.
• Front of the work speaks: choirs . Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, Bern 1935.
• The dissatisfied. Lesson. Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, Bern 1935.
• Chant rumantsch. Old and new songs of the Rhaeto-Romanic for mixed choir (adaptations). Helbling, Zurich 1939.
• The new Columbus. A dramatic story . Oprecht, Zurich 1939.
• Stars from below (poems). Oprecht, Zurich 1939.
• That night (poems). Bühl-Verlag, Herrliberg-Zurich 1946.
• Columbus returns. A dramatic legend . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1948.
• The hourglass (poems). Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1948.
• The last letter (stories). Classen, Zurich 1948.
• The year of grapes (poems). : Swiss Schiller Foundation, Zurich 1950.
• Equinoxes (poems). Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1952.
• My little Spittelbuch (poems). Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1953.
• An ordinary day (poems). Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1954.
• The cherries ring (poems). Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1956.
• The Heavenly Mail. Christmas and New Year poems . Arche, Zurich 1956.
• No, the night is not the end (poems). Oprecht, Zurich 1958.
• The wonderful bread tree. Poetic walking booklet . Artemis, Zurich 1958.
• Ferris wheel of the stars (poems). Artemis, Zurich 1960.
• We have wings today (poems). Artemis, Zurich 1962.
• Message from the wool weavers (poems). Artemis, Zurich 1964.
• Return of the animals on holy night. Christmas and New Year poems . Arche, Zurich 1965.
• The unholy three kings . 1966.
• Weathercock, old-fashioned (poems). Artemis, Zurich 1968.
• The poems of the pessimist and moralist Albert Ehrismann: A Chronicle . Nebelspalter-Verlag, Rorschach 1972.
• I am surprised that I am happy: 65 poems . Classen, Zurich 1973.
• A kind of balance sheet: 65 poems from 45 years . Good writings, Zurich 1973.
• Later eons later: a book of poems. Nebelspalter-Verlag, Rorschach 1975.
• Islands are not air webs (poems). Classen, Zurich 1977.
• Meltwater (poems). Nebelspalter-Verlag, Rorschach 1978.
• The third. A strange love story . Classen, Zurich 1988 (created 1929).
• Towards the end of the second millennium: PostScripts. Good writings, Zurich 1988.

literature

• Reto Caluori: Albert Ehrismann . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 521.

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Ehrismann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prize winners - Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Foundation. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .