Eduard Korrodi

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Eduard Korrodi (born November 20, 1885 in Zurich ; † September 4, 1955 there ) was a Swiss journalist , essayist and literary critic .

Life

Eduard Korrodi, son of a teacher, attended schools in Zurich and at the college Maria Hilf in Schwyz . He completed his German studies at the University of Zurich in 1912 ; he did his doctorate with Adolf Frey on Conrad Ferdinand Meyer .

He worked as a grammar school teacher, from 1914 to 1950 as head of the features section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), where he earned the reputation of a Swiss “pope of literature ”. As such, he initially called for a farewell to the “ Seldwyler spirit”, but increasingly criticized all authors who broke new formal and literary paths or who he identified politically to the left of his line. His attacks were directed against Jakob Bührer , Walter Muschg or Albin Zollinger . Max Frisch , who was "discovered" by him, later called him the " Federal Literary Court ". In 1920 he annoyed Hermann Hesse with the " exposure " of the Demian pseudonym Emil Sinclair . In 1936 he provoked a reply from Thomas Mann with an article on German exile literature . In an open letter to Eduard Korrodi , which appeared in the NZZ on February 3, Mann defended the writers in exile criticized by Korrodi and for the first time since 1933 took a public position against National Socialist Germany.

His work as a critic was dealt with in a dissertation in 1989 .

Works

  • Enrica by Handel-Mazzetti . The personality and its poetic work . Alphonsus, Münster 1909.
  • CF Meyer Studies. Hermann Haessel , Leipzig 1912.
  • Poetic Zurich. Miniatures from the 18th century. (with Robert Faesi ). Reading circle Hottingen, Zurich 1913.
  • Swiss literary letters. Huber, Frauenfeld 1918.
  • Young Switzerland. (as editor) Rascher, Zurich 1919.
  • Gottfried Keller . A German lyric poet. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1920.
  • Swiss poetry of the present. Haessel, Leipzig 1924.
  • Switzerland's spiritual heritage. Writings from Albrecht von Haller to Jacob Burckhardt . (as editor). Rentsch, Erlenbach 1929; 2. completely redesigned A. ibid. 1943.
  • Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Hans Rudolf Schmid: The book of Switzerland. East and south. Series: What is not in “Baedeker” (Vol. XV), (as editor), Piper Verlag, Munich 1932.
  • German-Swiss friendship. Letters from two centuries . Niehans, Zurich 1934
  • Swiss Biedermeier. Selected stories by David Hess and Rodolphe Toepffer . (as editor). Atlantis, Zurich 1936.
  • A conversation with Goethe . (as editor). Manesse, Zurich 1944; Reprinted 1985.
  • "Home sweet home to my loved ones". A picture of the life of the poet Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis . Tschudy, St. Gallen 1950.
  • Precious German poetry. A contemplative breviary. (with Hans Huber). Huber, Bern 1950.
  • Experienced literature. VOB, Olten 1952
  • Essays on Swiss literature. Edited by Heinz Weder. Huber, Bern 1962.
  • Selected features. (with detailed bibliography), ed. by Helen Münch-Küng. Chronos, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-0340-0818-X .

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SURNAME Korrodi, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, essayist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1955
Place of death Zurich