Aline Valangin

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Aline Valangin , bourgeois Aline Rosenbaum-Ducommun (born February 9, 1889 in Vevey ; † August 7, 1986 in Ascona ) was a Swiss writer , pianist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Aline Valangin was the first daughter of Jules Ducommun (1859-1938), the son of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Élie Ducommun , and his wife Aline, née Merz (1867-1921). In 1893 the Vevey family moved to Bern . From 1904 Valangin trained as a pianist at the Lausanne Conservatory ; however, she was only able to do this for a short time due to a hand injury. She then worked for a few years in Alsace as a private piano teacher and translator.

In 1915 she moved to Zurich , became a student and analysand of CG Jung and soon began to work as a psychoanalyst herself.

From 1917 to 1940 she was married to Wladimir Rosenbaum (1894–1984), a Swiss lawyer and antiquarian of Russian-Jewish origin. Together with him she ran an artist salon in Zurich . To do this, she acquired the Palazzo La Barca in Comologno in the Onsernone Valley in 1929 . Both in Zurich and in Ticino, it temporarily offered refuge for emigrants, such as Ignazio Silone , Ernst Toller and Kurt Tucholsky . In her novel Village on the Border (written in 1946) she critically described the situation of a village on the Swiss border during the war in conflict with Swiss asylum policy; the book could not appear until 1982.

In 1933 she met the composer Wladimir Vogel (1896–1984) and moved with him in 1937, first to Brussels, then to Paris and finally in 1939 to Ticino. From 1954 to 1965 she was married to Vogel after the divorce from Wladimir Rosenbaum. Since 1954 she lived in Ascona, where she wrote poetry, made tapestries and died in 1986 very old .

Works

Original editions

  • Dictées. Poems. Éditions Sagesse, Paris 1936.
  • Stories from the valley. Girsberger, Zurich 1937.
  • L'Amande clandestine. Poems. Éditions GLM, Paris 1939.
  • Ticino novellas. Girsberger, Zurich 1939.
  • The Bargada. A chronicle. Gutenberg Book Guild , Zurich 1940.
  • Casa Conti. Novel. Hallwag, Bern 1941.
  • Victoire or The Last Rose. Novel. Steinberg, Zurich 1946.
  • Reflets. Poems. Écrivains réunis, Lyon 1956.
  • Space without refrain / Espace sans refrain. Poems. With three paper cuts by Hans Arp . Tschudy (The Square Books 23), St. Gallen 1961.
  • Dream Schalmei. Goddesses - Contemplation - The Stylite. Poems. Karlsruher Bote, Karlsruhe 1969.
  • Diary from Israel . Poems, Karlsruher Bote, Karlsruhe 1970.
  • Statement. Poems. Karlsruher Bote, Karlsruhe 1971.
  • Vers et reverse. Poems. Lativa, n.d. 1978.
  • The silver flute. Two psychological novels from Ticino. Sisyphus, Zurich 1980.
  • Village on the border. Limmat, Zurich 1982.

Newer editions

  • Stella. And other Ticino stories. Limmat, Zurich 2001.
  • Mother. Limmat, Zurich 2001.
  • The Bargada / village on the border. A chronicle. Limmat, Zurich 2002.
  • Space without refrain / Espace sans refrain. Selected poems / Poèmes choisis. Limmat, Zurich 2003.
  • Ticino stories. Limmat, Zurich 2018.

literature

  • Christine Rinderknecht in: Helvetic profiles. 47 writers from German-speaking Switzerland since 1800 . Edited by the Zurich Seminar for Literary Criticism with Werner Weber , Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1981, pp. 278–282.
  • Peter Kamber: story of two lives. Wladimir Rosenbaum and Aline Valangin. Limmat, Zurich 1990 (supplemented: 2000).
Fiction

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ticinARTE website with biographical information about WR Vogel
personal data
SURNAME Valangin, Aline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenbaum-Ducommun, Aline (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, pianist and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vevey
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1986
Place of death Ascona