Alexander Lozza

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Wooden sculpture for Father Alexander Lozza in Salouf (detail)
Salouf (GR) village square in front of the Capuchin Hospice
Capuchin Hospice in Salouf in the Canton of Graubünden (Switzerland). Father Alexander Lozza lived here

Alexander Lozza OFMcap (born June 27, 1880 in Marmorera , † February 13, 1953 in Tiefencastel ) was a Swiss Capuchin from the canton of Graubünden . He was a writer and wrote in Italian and Romansh .

Life

Alexander Lozza was the twelfth child of a family of mountain farmers from the Bündnerischen Marmorea . His parents Dorigo and Maria Lozza-Florinetti sent him to a convent school in Genoa when he was 15 years old . In 1900, at the age of 20, he joined the Capuchin Order. In 1906 he became a parish assistant in Vaz and later in Salouf . From 1908 to 1919 he served as pastor in Tomils. From 1919 to 1949 he was pastor in the parish of Salouf in Surses in Graubünden .

Alexander Lozza was strongly connected to his homeland on the Julier Pass. In 1953 he was also involved in the fight against the Marmorera dam , which built the power station of the city of Zurich EWZ. For this the old village had to be given up. Today it is only a short distance away in a higher position. In a poem he wrote about it at the time:

Wooden sculpture for Father Alexander Lozza in Salouf (detail)

You sacrifice
history, language and tradition to the great Moloch Zurich . Only the legend remains of the
actions and attitudes of our ancients
.

From 1919 to 1936 he was also the custodian of the nearby Ziteil pilgrimage church . The Marienheiligtum Ziteil lies at 2429 meters and is considered the highest place of pilgrimage in the Eastern Alps . He remained connected with Ziteil and Salouf all his life: he was buried in Salouf according to his wishes.

A wooden sculpture and a memorial plaque in front of the Capuchin hospice in German and Rhaeto-Romanic remind us today. The sculpture shows the Capuchin Father returning from the hunt with a deer on his back. The pictures in his estate in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern also testify to his passion for hunting .

Alexander Lozza was the uncle of Duri Loza (1920–2012), who was pastor in Salouf from 1949 to 2012 and was custodian of the Ziteil pilgrimage site from 1950 to 1999. Loza was involved as the editor of his uncle's works and also translated numerous hymns into Romansh.

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Memorial plaque for Father Alexander Lozza in Salouf in German and Rhaeto-Romanic.

Alexander Lozza wrote poetry in Italian during his training in Genoa. From 1930 he began to publish poems, short stories and religious plays in Rhaeto-Romanic. They first appeared in calendars and magazines. In 1951 his first anthology was published under the title Ziteil .

1954 followed by the band Poesias . Even if Lozza did not leave a very extensive body of work, he is considered an important writer in the Romansh-speaking world, and his poems can also be found in Romansh school books .

An adventure trail with 13 selected poems by Alexander Lozza in Romansh and German leads from Savognin to the village of Stierva . With the Parc Ela app you can also have the poems read aloud. A map provides information about the exact course of the route.

Catalog raisonné

  • Ziteil: Flours segls ours da la veia - flowers by the wayside. Poems, St. Gallen, Tschudy-Verlag, 1951 Ediziun e traducziuns en tudestg da Leza Uffer.
  • Poesias. Salouf, ed. Duri Loza, 1954.
  • Prose. Salouf, ed. Duri Loza, 1961.
  • Faust, Signorell: L'appariziun da Nossadonna a Ziteil, dramatisada an 5 acts, in: sep. Calender Surmiran 1980, red.
  • Duri Loza (ed.): Raquints an rumantsch da Murmarera, Salouf, Cumegn da Murmarera, 1980.
  • Duri Loza (ed.), Raquints an rumantsch da Murmarera, Salouf, Cumegn da Murmarera, 1980.

Further information can be found in the estate directory.

The pilgrimage game of Ziteil

One of the better known works by Alexander Lozza is his pilgrimage play L'appariziung da Nossadonna da Ziteil / The Appearance of the Madonna of Ziteil, which premiered in 1933. The pilgrimage game by Ziteil addresses the legend of the place of pilgrimage. In 1580 Our Lady is said to have appeared to a young woman and a shepherd boy. She warned that God would punish the people with drought and disease for their sins if they did not repent. Then a procession with 3000 believers is said to have taken place. The Ziteil pilgrimage church was built on the place where Mary appeared to the shepherd boy. The pilgrimage game premiered in Salouf in 1933. Further performances in the region are documented for 1949, 1951 and 1980.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürg Krummenacher: On the life of a mountain village after its fall. How the Bündner Marmorera sold itself to the city of Zurich - and how it deals with it. Ed .: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. No. 65 . Zurich March 18, 2006, p. 17 .
  2. ↑ Relasch Alexander Lozza. In: Swiss National Library / Swiss Literature Archive Bern. Retrieved July 28, 2020 (Romansh).
  3. ^ Pader Alexander Lozza. In: Worksheets for School. Retrieved July 28, 2020 (Romansh).
  4. ↑ Veia digl Pader adventure trail. Parc Ela, accessed on July 28, 2020 (German, Romansh).
  5. ↑ Parc Ela app. Parc Ela, accessed on July 28, 2020 (German, Romansh).
  6. ^ Veia digl Pader - Albula themed trail. Outdooractive, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Relasch Alexander Lozza (estate). In: Swiss Literary Archives. Swiss National Library, accessed on July 29, 2020 (Romansh, German).
  8. ↑ Ursina Guldemond-Netzer: Alexander Lozza. In: Theater Lexikon der Schweiz. Retrieved July 28, 2020 (German, Romansh).
  9. ↑ Ursina Guldemond-Netzer: Gieu da pelegrinadi da Ziteil. In: Swiss Theater Lexicon. Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Bern, accessed on July 28, 2020 (German, Romansh).
personal data
SURNAME Lozza, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Marmorera
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1953
Place of death Tiefencastel