Albin Zollinger

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Albin Zollinger (born January 24, 1895 in Zurich ; † November 7, 1941 in Zurich) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Albin Zollinger was the son of a precision mechanic. He grew up in Rüti ZH and Argentina , where his parents tried in vain to start a new life. He attended the Küsnacht teachers' seminar and after many job changes in Oerlikon, he got a permanent job, which he kept until his death. His first novel was published in 1921 .

Everything Zollinger wrote - novels, short stories , poems , essays, articles, reviews , letters - arose alongside his work as a teacher, active service , public engagement in the Swiss Writers' Association , and his work as editor-in-chief, initially for the Bernese cultural magazine " Die Zeit " , then in the weekly newspaper “ Die Nation ” and despite family crises and depressions. His marriage ended in divorce after a few years.

He preferred to write in coffee houses in Zurich, where he always took the tram from Oerlikon after school. In the 1930s, this was primarily the Café Terrasse , where he often met the literature professor Fritz Ernst , the literary critic Bernhard Diebold , his friend Traugott Vogel and Rudolf Jakob Humm . He was also friends with Ludwig Hohl .

Three weeks before his death at the age of only 46, Zollinger met the young writer Max Frisch on the pan handle , who recorded this encounter in his diary 1946–1949  .

Zollinger is buried in a grave of honor in the Nordheim cemetery. His estate is administered by the Zurich Central Library . There has been an Albin-Zollinger-Platz in Oerlikon since 1980.

Fonts

Works

  • The King's Gardens. Novel, 1921
  • Half the man. Roman, 1929
  • Poems. 1933
  • Star early. Poems, 1936
  • The silence of autumn. Poems, 1939
  • House of life. Poems, 1939
  • The great unrest. Roman, 1939
  • Pan handle. The story of a sculptor. Roman, 1940
  • Bohnenblust or Die Erzieher. Roman, 1941
  • The Fröschlacher Cuckoo. The life and deeds of a city in twenty adventures. 1941

literature

  • Isabelle Chopin: Albin Zollinger. Entre politique et poésie (1933–1939). (= Contacts; Série 3, Etudes et documents 50). Lang, Bern a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-906758-15-X .
  • Maria Adèle Hafner: The figure of the teacher in Albin Zollinger's novels “Pfannenstiel” and “Bohnenblust” and in E. Y. Meyer's novel “Die Rückfahrt”. Bokos, Zurich 1995.
  • Thorbjörn Lengborn: Writer and Society in Switzerland. A study on the treatment of social problems at Zollinger, Frisch and Dürrenmatt. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7610-9259-8 .
  • Beatrice von Matt: Die Lyrik Albin Zollinger , Zurich 1964 (also Univ., Diss., Zurich).
  • Ingrid Scheffler: Albin Zollinger, Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt as publicists and their relationship to the media. (= Contributions to literature and literary studies of the 20th century; 7.) Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-8204-9134-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Zollinger, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1941
Place of death Zurich