Clara Forrer

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Clara Forrer also Clara Holzmann-Forrer (born April 19, 1868 in Meilen , Canton Zurich , † February 17, 1950 in Zurich ) was a Swiss poet .

life and work

Clara Forrer was born in Obermeilen in the canton of Zurich in 1868 , the daughter of a businessman . After an early blow of fate and assumption of duties in the parental household, she turned to writing at an early age. A pastor , in whose confirmation class she had attended, noticed and encouraged her writing activity, so that in 1886, with his support, a first volume of her own poems was published. A second increased edition of this was published in 1893 under the title Poems by the Höhr & Fäsi publishing house in Zurich .

In 1889 Clara Forrer married the music dealer and singer Adolf Holzmann. She had three children with him, including the later painter and graphic artist Adolf Holzmann (1890–1968).

As a housewife and mother, Clara Forrer only occasionally found time for her literary inclination, so that another volume of poems under the title Blütenschnee: New Poems was not published until 1895. This volume was published by the Zurich publishing house Raustein.

A third volume of poetry, entitled New Poems , took another thirteen years to complete and was published in 1908 by Orell Füssli in Zurich.

In 1910, she published A Book for Children as the first volume in the Jungbrunnen series in the same publishing house, together with the painter and illustrator Ernst Georg Rüegg (1880–1948), who worked as a drawing teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts from 1916 to 1948 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Poems. Höhr & Fäsi, Zurich 1893.
  • Blossom snow: new poems. Raustein, Zurich 1895.
  • New poems. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1908.
  • A book for children (= fountain of youth. First volume). Orell Füssli, Zurich 1910 (with pictures by Ernst Georg Rüegg).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Clara Forrer In: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Volume 9: Fischer-Abendroth-Frieze. KG Saur Verlag , 2006, p. 240.
  2. Clara Forrer. In: Eduard Engel : History of German literature in the nineteenth century and the present. F. Tempsky, 1913, p. 453.