Anna Richli

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Anna Richli (born October 9, 1884 in Willisau , † December 18, 1954 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss writer from the canton of Lucerne .

Life

Anna Richli came from Ruswil and was the daughter of the court substitute Sebastian Richli and Berta Richli-Peyer. She grew up with foster parents in Lucerne. From 1894 to 1901 she attended school at the Menzingen Institute and in 1902, at the age of 18, she was awarded the teaching certificate. She was first employed as a primary school teacher in Schärlig , a part of the municipality of Marbach in Entlebuch . Her first literary work, the novella Im Schulhaus auf der Alp , which she wrote as a competition entry , tells of this time . From 1905 she worked as a teacher at the municipal girls' school in Lucerne.

After making small contributions to newspapers and calendars, Anna Richli has been writing short stories , short stories and historical novels since the First World War . In 1916 she published a selection of texts in the anthology Höhen Leuchten , including the novella Rosen von San Pons , which received particular attention. The story turn of the century takes place in the era of the French Revolution . For the anniversary celebration of the Lucerne Men's Choir on July 1, 1923, Richli wrote the commemorative publication Der Göttin Gaben . The larger works deal with the life stories of historical personalities, mainly women, who were involved in a social area. In the volume In the Coat of Love from 1922, Richli tells the story of Vittoria de Bastianelli, who came from a family in Venice and whose life is linked to the history of Plurs in the province of Sondrio . The story takes place before the city was destroyed by a landslide in 1618. Richli's work was translated into Italian by Gian Primo Falappi in 2013 and published by the Associazione italo-svizzera per gli scavi di Piuro .

Richli dedicated other biographies to Maria Theresia Scherer (1825–1888), the first General Superior of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross in Ingenbohl , and Salesia Strickler (1834–1898), nun and general superior of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in Menzingen, and Adolph Kolping (1813 –1865), the founder of the Kolping Society. Anna Richli's writings are shaped by an interest in Catholic women's education and are part of the popular religiously influenced Swiss literature of the 1920s. The writer presented her works in public readings, including in front of the Solothurn Pottery Society , which regularly invited women to Solothurn as speakers in the 1920s .

Anna Richli was a member of the "Club Hrotsvit", in whose magazine she repeatedly published articles. She was friends with the Lucerne writer Agnes von Segesser , the president of this association.

Inge Sprenger-Viol (* 1951) portrayed Anna Richli in her 1986 book Strange Women.

Works

  • Altitude lights. Novellas and sketches. Regensburg / Rome 1916.
  • They wrestle in the depths…. Stories. Association for the Distribution of Good Writings, Zurich 1919.
  • The Way of the Cross of Magnus Segnewald and other short stories. Vienna 1919.
  • Shadows in the light. Lucerne 1920.
  • In the cloak of love. Regensburg 1922.
  • Maria Theresia Scherer . In: Schweizer Frauen der Tat 1659–1827. Zurich 1924.
  • Mrs. Salesia Strickler . In: Schweizer Frauen der Tat 1831–1854. Zurich 1928, pages 64–80.
  • Mine is the day. Lucerne / Leipzig 1927.
  • Turn of the century. Lucerne / Leipzig 1929.
  • Adolf Kolping the journeyman's father December 8, 1813 to December 4, 1865. Freiburg 1929, Konstanz 1930.
  • In the anteroom of the future. A young man's novel. Freiburg 1931.
  • Blood revenge. Novella. Munich 1932.
  • Otto Wikardt's way. Novel. Lucerne 1935.
  • Ms. Monika's protective wall. Narrative. Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 1936.
  • The ship's wife and the gold embroiderer. Basel 1937.
  • The unpredictable. Stories. Basel 1942.
  • Katharina Morel, 1790–1876. 1943.
  • The blank face. An anabaptist story . Basel 1944.
  • At the strike of time. Miniatures. Einsiedeln / Cologne 1946.
  • The prisoner of her fate. Novel. Lucerne 1946.

Archives

literature

  • Inge Sprenger Viol: Strange women. Lucerne 1986, pp. 107-114.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Novella svizzera sulla tragica fine di Piuro in: labregaglie.ch
  2. ↑ In addition: Esther Vorburger-Bossart: "What needs of the time is ..." Identities in Catholic women's education. The central Swiss teaching nurses institutes Baldegg, Cham, Ingenbohl and Menzingen 1900–1980. Friborg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7278-1641-3 .
  3. ^ Klaus Pezold (ed.): Swiss literary history. German-language literature in the 20th century. Leipzig 2007.
  4. ↑ Inge Sprenger Viol: A life against misery and injustice. Path and work of Sister Maria Theresia Scherer. Freiburg im Breisgau 1995.
  5. ↑ See: Dominik Riedo: Luzern. Literary traces. A reader. Lucerne 2011. Therein pp. 143–145: Anna Richli: Jahrhundertwende.
personal data
SURNAME Richli, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Willisau
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1954
Place of death Lucerne