Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

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Édouard Vallet : Portrait de CF Ramuz (1925)
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz on the 200 franc note

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (born September 24, 1878 in Lausanne , † May 23, 1947 in Pully ) was a Swiss writer , poet , essayist and national poet and is considered the most important representative of Swiss literature in the French language .

Life

Ramuz was born the son of a grocer and later a wine merchant. After the Collège classique he attended high school and in 1896 enrolled in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Lausanne . He made the decision to become a poet during a six-month stay in Karlsruhe . During his studies, he became a member of the Swiss Zofinger Association .

He first stayed in Paris around 1900 to continue his studies. After briefly teaching in Weimar with the Russian nobleman Moritz Prozor , he moved to Paris in 1904 to write a doctoral thesis on the poet Maurice de Guérin . However, he gave up this project and worked as a poet in Paris. It was there that he met his wife, the painter Cécile Cellier , whom he married in 1913. The daughter Marianne emerged from the marriage. In 1914 Ramuz left Paris and moved with his family back to Lausanne, Switzerland.

Act

Ramuz published numerous works and received many prizes for his work, including a. 1936 the Great Schiller Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation .

His work Histoire du soldat was set to music by Igor Stravinsky . In this set to music, a narrator reads and the actors dance and / or act. The novel Derborence , which is based on the events of the landslide in the Derborence basin in 1714, was filmed in 1985 by Francis Reusser under the same title. Farinet ou la fausse monnaie on the counterfeiter Joseph-Samuel Farinet served as a template for the film Farinet ou l'or dans la montagne by Max Haufler in 1938 , Si le soleil ne revenait pas 1987 for the film of the same name by Claude Goretta .

C.-F. Ramuz is depicted on the current eighth series of banknotes in the two hundred franc note .

After him the Grand Prix C.-F. Named Ramuz .

Works (in German)

Single issues

  • The story of the soldier . Read, played and danced in two parts. Free rework by Hans Reinhart . Reading circle Hottingen, Zurich 1924
    • L'histoire du soldat - The story of the soldier . With documents on the creation of the work and six illustrations. Using the free copy by Hans Reinhart (1921) based on the last version of the original French text (1946), newly translated into German by Hans Rudolf Hilty and Erich Holliger . Tschudy, St. Gallen 1962
  • A poet came and went . Novel. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1926
  • Separation of the races . Novel. German by Werner Johannes Guggenheim . Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1926
    • Reissued as: The Separation of Races . Novel. Translation by Hanno Helbling . People and World, Berlin 1985
  • The great horror in the mountains . Novel. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1927
    • New edition as: The great fear in the mountains . Novel. Translation by Hanno Helbling. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-312-00445-4
  • The change of Marie Grin . Novel. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1930
  • The beauty on earth . Novel. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1931
    • Reissued as: Beauty on Earth . Novel. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Hans Lukas the persecuted . A story from the Valais mountains. Association for the Distribution of Good Writings, Zurich 1932
  • Farinet or the wrong money . Novel. Piper, Munich 1933
    • New edition in translation by Hanno Helbling. Limmat, Zurich 1986; 2003, ISBN 3-85791-440-8
  • One hand . Narrative. Rascher, Zurich 1934
  • Rockslide on Derborence (other title: The rockslide ). Narrative. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1935
    • Reissued as: Derborence . Novel. Translated by Hanno Helbling. Limmat, Zurich 1987 and 2003 ISBN 3-85791-439-4
  • A fellow from Savoy . Novel. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1936
    • New edition as: The young Savoyarde . Suhrkamp ( BS 7), Berlin 1952
  • Need for size . Stauffacher, Zurich 1938
  • War in the Oberland . Swiss printing and publishing house, Zurich 1938
  • If the sun didn't come back . Novel. Humanitas, Zurich 1938
    • Reissued as: If the sun didn't come back . Novel. German by Werner Johannes Guggenheim. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1982
  • Paris. Notes from a Vaudois . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1939
  • Singing from the lands of the Rhone . Morgarten, Zurich 1940
  • Aline . Novel. Rascher, Zurich 1940
    • New edition: Huber, Frauenfeld 1983
    • New edition: Limmat, Zurich 2019
  • Discovery of the world . Gutenberg Book Guild , Zurich 1940
  • Aimé Pache. A painter from Vaud . Novel. Humanitas, Zurich 1941
  • The village in the mountains . Morgarten, Zurich 1942
    • New edition, Über Trude Fein : Huber, Frauenfeld 1984
  • Samuel Belet . Steinberg, Zurich 1942
  • The Vaud . Marguerat, Lausanne 1943
  • Valais . Translated and furnished by Titus Burckhardt . Graf, Basel 1943
  • Adam and Eve . Steinberg, Zurich 1943
  • Uprising in Vaud . Good writings (GS 213), Zurich 1945
  • Übers. Albert Baur: Father Antille and other short stories . Steinberg, Zurich 1948
    • exp. Reissued as: Pastoral and Other Stories . Diogenes, Zurich 1963
      • New edition: Pastorale . Translated by Peter Sidler. Limmat, Zurich 1994 ISBN 3-85791-211-1
  • Measure of man . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1949
  • Diary 1896–1942 . Steinberg, Zurich 1950
    • exp. New edition: Diary 1896–1947 . Huber, Frauenfeld 1982
  • Memories of Igor Stravinsky . Translated from Leonharda Gescher. Suhrkamp (BS 17), Berlin 1953
  • The rule of evil . Narrative. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1985
  • Visit of the poet . Limmat, Zurich 1987 ISBN 3-85791-122-0
  • Human measure - questions - need for size . Three essays. Translated by Elisabeth Brock-Sulzer . Limmat, Zurich 1990 ISBN 3-85791-167-0

Work editions

  • Collected Works . Edited by Albert Baur with the assistance of the author. 3 volumes. Rhine, Basel 1921
    • Volume 1: Atonement in the Fire . Poems and short stories
    • Volume 2: The Regiment of Evil . novel
    • Volume 3: Signs happen . novel
  • Works in six volumes , edited by Werner Günther. Huber, Frauenfeld 1972ff
    • Volume 1: Aline , 1972
    • Volume 2: Aimé Pache, a painter from Vaudois , 1976
    • Volume 3: The Reign of Evil , 1974
    • Volume 4: Beauty on Earth , 1973
    • Volume 5: The great Sonderbund War , 1978
    • Volume 6: Reason for Being , 1975

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz: Découverte du monde. Paris (= Oeuvres complètes. Volume 20). Slatkine, Geneva 1986, p. 143.
  2. ↑ Der Schweizer Baur (1877–1949) emerged as a translator from French and wrote for the national newspaper . Baur
personal data
SURNAME Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1947
Place of death Lausanne