Arthur Häny
Arthur Häny (born June 9, 1924 in Ennetbaden ; † July 16, 2019 ) was a Swiss writer and translator .
Life
Häny grew up in Aargau , studied German literature and classical philology at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate there in 1948 with a dissertation on Friedrich Hölderlin . From 1948 to 1989 he was the main teacher for German, then for German and Ancient Languages at grammar schools at the Cantonal School in Zurich . He was with the painter and children's book author Marieluise Häny, geb. Müller, married, had two children and lived in Zurich. He died in July 2019 at the age of 95.
Its literary production began in 1951 with the volume of poetry Pastorale . Further poetry and prose appeared in the following years, including the novels Das Fräulein mit dem Schöne Kind (2000) and Die Fahrt in die Glückseligkeit (2001). In 2003 a volume of collected poems (Being and Being) was published .
His annotated translations of the Song Edda (1987) and the Snorra Edda (1991) are valued for their shortness, which distinguishes them from the pathetically exaggerated translations of the 19th century. In his volume of essays The Poets and their Homeland (1978) he examined the relationship to homeland and the changing understanding of the fatherland among Swiss and German authors.
Awards
- 1951: Approval from the Canton of Zurich and the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1953: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
- 1968: Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
- 1970: Honorary gift from the City of Zurich
- 1973: Approval from the City of Zurich
Works
- Holderlin's titan myth. Dissertation Zurich 1948. Partial print 1947.
- Pastoral. Poems. Zurich 1951.
- The contemplation. Poems. St. Gallen 1953.
- The end of the poet. Little stories. St. Gallen 1953.
- The tower and the carpet. Fairy tale. Zurich 1955.
- In the twilight. Poems. Zurich 1957.
- The enchanted Saturday. Narrative. Zurich 1964.
- The three pines and I'll stay on Elba. With drawings by Marieluise Häny. 1966.
- The raven winter. Poems. Zurich 1968.
- In the sea of silence. Poems. Zurich & Stuttgart 1970.
- A bouquet of poppies. Poems. Zurich & Stuttgart 1973.
- The poets and their homeland. Studies on the homeland behavior of German-speaking authors in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays. Bern & Munich 1978.
- I am staying on Elba. Stories. Schaffhausen 1983.
- Small town built in the hair dryer. Miniatures. Stäfa 1994.
- Judgment and prejudice. Aphorisms and glosses. Vienna 1998.
- The young lady with the beautiful child. Novel. Egelsbach et al. 2000.
- The ride to bliss. Novel. Egelsbach et al. 2001.
- Being and being. Collected poems. Laupersdorf (Switzerland) 2004.
- I am going home. Zurich 2005.
- The inner light. Zurich 2009.
as translator:
- Edda. Songs of gods and heroes of the Germanic peoples. Zurich 1987.
- Snorri Sturluson : Prose Edda. Old Icelandic tales of gods. Zurich 1991.
as editor:
- German poet fairy tales from Goethe to Kafka. Zurich 1965. 5th edition 1996.
literature
- Pia Reinacher, Zygmunt Mielczarek: Häny, Arthur. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 4, p. 580.
- Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . 60th year de Gruyter, Berlin 1988.
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Häny in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death announcements for Arthur Häny in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung , accessed on July 20 of 2019.
- ↑ Arthur Häny. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 332.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Häny, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ennetbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th July 2019 |