Albert J. Welti

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Nine-year-old Albert Jakob in the father's family picture (1903)

Albert Jakob Welti (born October 11, 1894 in Zurich - Höngg ; † December 5, 1965 in Amriswil ) was a Swiss writer and painter .

Life

As the son of the painter Albert Welti , Albert Jakob Welti was also trained as an artist. He studied at the art academies of Düsseldorf , Munich , London and Madrid . At a young age he lost both parents: his mother first died in Munich in 1911, and his father died in Bern in 1912. A severe typhoid fever in the Balearic Islands at the beginning of the twenties brought the turning point from painting to writing.

When he returned to Switzerland, he chose Chêne-Bougeries near Geneva as his place of work. For the Dörflikirche at the Swiss National Exhibition in 1914 in Bern, Welti designed five mosaic panels that Gottfried Künzi made .

Maroto and his King , a historical drama, was written (1922), then Servet in Geneva (1930). At the national exhibition in Zurich in 1939, the dialect drama Steibruch premiered with great success and was later filmed. Albert J. Welti's first novel was not published until he was almost fifty: When Puritans Are Young (1941); it was followed by the second novel, Martha and the Nobody's Sons (1948), set in the politically and socially highly turbulent Geneva . He continued the critical questioning of the Swiss present in a series of extensive and idiosyncratic novels.

In a large number of essays and speeches, Welti took a stand on cultural, literary and political questions of his time. All these large and small works showed him as a commentator with a high degree of intellectual independence. The last work, Bild des Vater (1962), is a sensitive artist portrait that ultimately placed him on a par with his father. In addition to other novels and plays, this author has also written some short stories and radio plays, in which the dialect was often used.

Albert J. Welti was awarded several honors and individual work prizes (1931, 1942 and 1948) by the Swiss Schiller Foundation and in 1954 with the total work price for his dramatic work. From 1933–65 he was on the board of the Society of Swiss Dramatists, from 1946–51 he was its president.

Welti's estate is in the Swiss Literary Archives, Bern.

Albert J. Welti was a grandson of the transport company Jakob Albert Welti-Furrer , cousin of Arthur Welti , uncle of Philippe Welti and great- uncle 2nd degree of Sophie Hunger . He was married to Eva Hug, daughter of the music dealer Adolf Hug.

Works

A selection of the most important texts by Albert J. Welti:

  1. drama
    • Decay (ca.1920, unprinted)
    • Maroto and his King (1926; premiere April 12, 1926, Stadttheater Basel)
    • The contract with the devil (premiere April 3, 1929, Stadttheater St. Gallen)
    • Servet in Geneva (1930; premiere November 7, 1931, Stadttheater Bern)
    • Bluebeard (1933; premiered January 28, 1937, Schauspielhaus Zurich)
    • The Peace Child (1934)
    • Mordnacht (1937; premiered February 23, 1937 by the Freie Bühne Zürich in the Stadttheater Winterthur)
    • Steibruch (1939; premiered May 7, 1939, Landi Zurich 1939)
    • Summerfahrt (also: Miss Helvetia, 1941, premiere November 4, 1941 by Freie Bühne Zürich in the Schauspielhaus Zürich)
    • Advertisement 82793 (1942)
    • Superstition (1945, premiere October 27, 1945, Schaffhausen)
    • Prince Georg and Choking Humility (1947)
    • There Deficit or: Di misappropriated Abchürzig (1948)
    • Ramon Lull (1949; premiere November 28, 1951, Stadttheater St. Gallen)
    • But it wasn't easy for her (1950)
    • Job the Winner (1954; premiere March 3, 1955, Schauspielhaus Zurich)
    • Züriputsch (1961; created 1938)
  2. Festival
    • Distelschnauz (also: Schpiil ums Füür , UA Bern 1928)
    • Huusreuki (Festival for the 300th anniversary of the Zunft zur Waag Zurich, 1937)
    • Here is Schaffhausen! (1939; WP July 29, 1939, Landi Zurich 1939)
    • Ragazer Brunnenspiel (1939; premiered June 8, 1968 in Bad Ragaz)
    • Helping forces (1945; premiere June 2, 1945, Winterthur)
    • The Passport (1948)
    • Hans Büezer and the Muses (1948; Premiere July 8, 1948, Switzerland. Festival of the Workers' Choirs Geneva 1948)
    • Schaffhausen National Game (Premiere August 13, 1951, Schaffhausen).
  3. prose
    • When Puritans are young (Roman, Zurich 1941)
    • The Saint of Tenedo (story, Zurich 1943)
    • Martha and the Nobody Sons (Roman, Zurich 1948)
    • The cool virgin Hannyvonne (Roman, Zurich 1954)
    • The dagger of Lucretia (Roman, Zurich 1958)
    • Picture of the father (biography, Zurich 1962)
  4. Radio plays
    • Ludwig XIV. Or Büro SOS (radio play, Studio Zurich 1941)
    • Steibruch (radio play version in five episodes, Studio Zurich, February 3, 1942)
    • The milkweed industry (radio play, Studio Bern 1943)
    • Mordnacht (radio play, Studio Zurich, December 19, 1950)
    • Servet in Geneva (radio play, Studio Bern October 15, 1953)
    • The House of the Changing Moon (listening series, Studio Bern December 17, 1956)
  5. art

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Expo archive: Dörflikirche, Swiss National Exhibition 1914. Accessed on September 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Expo Archive: Dörfli church letter from Albert J. Welti (1957). Retrieved September 25, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Welti, Albert J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welti, Albert Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich - Höngg
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1965
Place of death Amriswil