Arthur Honegger (writer)

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Arthur Honegger (1981)

Arthur "Turi" Honegger (born September 27, 1924 in St. Gallen ; † August 15, 2017 in Nesslau ) was a Swiss journalist , writer and politician ( SP ).

Life

Arthur Honegger was officially taken away as an illegitimate child because of the minor mother and given to a foster family in the Zurich Oberland . At the age of 14 he came to a home, later as a contract child with a farmer and finally to the Uitikon labor education center near Zurich . After his release, he made his way through various professions: farmhand, riding boy, miner, milker, worker in the machine industry, workshop clerk.

In 1960 he became secretary of the Social Democratic Party of the canton of Thurgau and editor of the Thurgauer Arbeiterzeitung . His breakthrough as a journalist came as an editor at the tabloid Blick from 1962 to 1969, where he worked as a reporter for the Middle East during the Six Day War and during the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt . In 1970 he moved to Diners Club Magazin as editor-in-chief .

In 1974 his first book, The Ready Makers , appeared about his childhood and youth. From 1991 to 1996 he was a member of the St. Gallen Cantonal Council . Honegger had been married since 1949, had three children and lived in Krummenau in Toggenburg .

Honegger wrote mostly autobiographical texts from areas that he knew from within: contract children, poverty, local politics, the working class. The novel When they come tomorrow was filmed in 1981 for GDR television with the title The Uninvited Guest , directed by Peter Wekwerth . In 2004 the film Turi by Lotty Wohlwend and Renato Müller was released, based on the novel The Ready Makers and Honegger's Life After Education.

He died on August 15, 2017 at the age of 92 in Nesslau.

Awards

Works

Novels

  • The finishers. Benziger, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-545-36229-9 .
  • Friday or the fear of payday. Benziger, Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-545-36251-5 .
  • When they come tomorrow. Huber, Frauenfeld 1977.
  • The school caretaker. Huber, Frauenfeld 1978.
  • The former. Huber, Frauenfeld 1979.
  • The National Council. Huber, Frauenfeld 1980.
  • Snow King. Huber, Frauenfeld 1980.
  • Nightmares. Huber, Frauenfeld 1981.
  • Wegmacher. Huber, Frauenfeld 1982.
  • The Snow King and other stories from Toggenburg. Huber, Frauenfeld 1982.
  • The way of Thomas J. Huber, Frauenfeld 1983.
  • A patch of earth. Huber, Frauenfeld 1984.
  • The monument. Huber, Frauenfeld 1985.
  • Dobermans are not irritated. Huber, Frauenfeld 1988.
  • Poverty. Huber, Frauenfeld 1994.
  • Berni's world. Huber, Frauenfeld 1996.
  • The strange cunt or the election to the great council. Huber, Frauenfeld 1992.
  • Twins. Huber, Frauenfeld 2000.
  • Buhler. Huber, Frauenfeld 2002.
  • Gotti. Huber, Frauenfeld 2006.
  • Menacing days. Huber, Frauenfeld 2009, ISBN 3-719-31527-4

Reports and other things

  • Stolen souls. Contract children in Switzerland. (with Lotty Wohlwend). Huber, Frauenfeld 2004.
  • The red Huber. Reports. Huber, Frauenfeld 2007.

Theatrical performances

  • Mountain life , first performed: Wetzikon 1954.
  • Alpine summer , premiered: Unterwasser 1984.
  • The hereditary family , premiered: Krummenau 1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fridolin Rast :: With the word against injustice, not with the fist In: Schweiz am Sonntag of June 14, 2015 (PDF).
  2. ^ Nesslau Online: News: Arthur Honegger obituary. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Honegger, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honegger, Turi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, journalist and politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 2017
Place of death Nesslau , Switzerland