Charles Tschopp

Charles Tschopp (born June 7, 1899 in Rheinfelden , † May 29, 1982 in Aarau ) was a Swiss writer .

He studied natural sciences at the ETH Zurich from 1920 to 1925 and, after completing his doctorate, initially worked as a district teacher , then from 1936 to 1967 as a teacher of mathematics and natural history at the Aarau Teachers' Seminar (today's New Cantonal School Aarau ). In addition to short stories and poems , he mainly wrote aphorisms and glosses , for example for the Nebelspalter . He also wrote a textbook about his home canton Aargau .

Quotes

Charles Tschopp on his first aphorism:

“Many years ago, after a conversation, I found it a shame that our brilliant thoughts should simply be forgotten again. So I bought a thick notebook, carefully numbered its 128 pages, wrote it down just as carefully: Diary No. 1 ... Beginning on ..., put it in a brown envelope, decorated this cover with all the calligraphic finesse, showed the work on a Sunday morning- Diligent of the wife, who had to admire it properly, and ... for the time being postponed the writing of the thoughts until tomorrow, then to the day after tomorrow ... But on the third day I tried to write the thoughts down; I have to say that for the sake of the truth, not the punchline. But they ran away from me, and in the end only the sentence remained: 'Whoever tries to write down his thoughts often feels like the waking dreamer: A moment ago his hands were digging in gold; now he finds it empty. ' So I had learned one of those many lessons of humility that life brings us again and again ... and at the same time I wrote my first aphorism. "

(From: Kaleidoscope of Everyday Life )

Aphorisms from the kaleidoscope of everyday life :

"Every thought is an exaggeration ... this one too."

"Good thoughts are those that you, my reader, come up with even better ones."

According to these key words, the collection of aphorisms is understood as an impetus for thought movement.

Works

• Aphorisms (1938)
• A hot summer . Novella (1940)
• The Life Candidate (1942)
• Poems (1942)
• Your poem . Novella (1943)
• About people and things . Glosses (1945)
• New Aphorisms (1947)
• Poems (1952)
• Sliver (1955)
• From my mother's letters (1957)
• Of mass and weight (1960)
• Aargau. A geography (1962)
• The Master Thief (1964)
• Four Aargau Novellas (1964)
• Everyday Kaleidoscope , Gute Schriften Verlag, Basel 1967
• Glosses and Pictures (1977)
• From the drum to the double bass and other stories (1978)

Web links

• Charles Tschopp website with new aphorisms