Alfred Huggenberger

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Alfred Huggenberger (born December 26, 1867 in Bewangen near Bertschikon ; † February 14, 1960 in Diessenhofen ), pseudonym Dr. Hans Meyerlein, was a Swiss writer . With his numerous swans , stories and poems in the standard German language as well as in his Eastern Swiss dialect, he became known beyond Switzerland.

Life

Alfred Huggenberger was born the son of a farmer in the canton of Zurich near the border with the canton of Thurgau . At the age of 29 he took over his parents' farm, which burned down in 1904 due to arson. Together with his wife Bertha and their daughter, Huggenberger moved to neighboring Gerlikon in Thurgau in 1908 , where he took over a smaller farm that gave him more time for his literary work.

Alfred Huggenberger began writing at an early age. He made his literary breakthrough beyond the Swiss border in 1907 with the book Hinterm Pflug, supported by well-known authors such as Hermann Hesse , Josef Hofmiller and Ludwig Thoma . During the Nazi era , he was captured by the Nazis for propagating blood-and-soil literature . His oeuvre comprises over 100 volumes of prose and poetry - some in Standard German , some in Swiss German - as well as numerous plays. During his lifetime, along with Heinrich Federer , Jakob Christoph Heer and Ernst Zahn, he was one of the most famous Swiss writers from home. His estate is kept and indexed in the Thurgau State Archives .

Huggenberger worked in agriculture until old age; he died at the age of 92 in the former St. Katharinental monastery and was buried in the cemetery in Gachnang .

In Gerlikon, Frauenfeld , Weinfelden and Räterschen , streets are named after him. The scientifically sound biography compiled on behalf of the Thurgau government by a group of authors under the direction of Germanist Rea Brändle and the historian Mario König critically mentions Huggenberger's “pro-German attitude” and the proximity of his ideas “to the folkish”.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Equestrian poetry, 1890.
  • Songs and Ballads, 1896.
  • Behind the plow. Verses of a Peasant, 1907.
  • The farmers from Steig. Roman, 1913.
  • Fellow villagers . New stories, 1914.
  • Bollme is angry with the nurse. Play, premiered in 1914 by the Zurich Dramatic Society .
  • The story of Heinrich Lentz. Roman, 1916.
  • Farming country. Stories, 1919.
  • The wedding feast, 1921.
  • The women of Siebenacker. Roman, 1925.
  • The meadow of fate. Roman, 1937.
  • The Call of Home, 1948.
  • The friendly year. Stories, 1954.
  • Alfred Huggenberger tells his life. Edited by Dino Larese . Huber, Frauenfeld 1958.
posthumous issues
  • Commemorative edition for the 100th birthday. Edited by Hans Brauchli. 4 volumes, Mühlemann, Weinfelden 1967.
  • Village and field. Poems and stories. Theaterverlag Elgg, Belp 1992, ISBN 3-909120-10-5 .
  • Poems - stories - rascals. A selection from his work on the 50th anniversary of his death. Edited by the Alfred Huggenberger Society. Theaterverlag Elgg, Belp 2010, ISBN 978-3-909120-19-2 ( digital version (PDF file, 1.9 MB.)).

Some of his poems were also set to music.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Kägi: Alfred Huggenberger In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch, 14th year, 1938, pp. 24–30 ( e-periodica ; accessed on March 15, 2020).
  2. ↑ Andreas Tobler: The hunger for recognition made him blind to the victims. In: Tages-Anzeiger , December 11, 2013, Culture, p. 23.
  3. ^ Dramatischer Verein Zürich in the Theater Lexikon der Schweiz , accessed on November 18, 2016
  4. ↑ Details on the history and content on a website of the Canton of Thurgau and the Cultural Foundation of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on June 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Huggenberger, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dr. Hans Meyerlein (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Beware
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1960
Place of death Diessenhofen