Elisabeth Gerter

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Elisabeth Gerter (1895–1955) Socially critical writer, poet, politician, grave in the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Elisabeth Gerter (1895–1955) Socially critical writer, poet, politician, grave in the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Elisabeth Gerter ( pseudonym for Elisabeth Aegerter ; born June 15, 1895 in Gossau / Canton St. Gallen as Elisabeth Hartmann ; † August 28, 1955 in Riehen / Canton Basel-Stadt ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Elisabeth Hartmann was the daughter of a postman and grew up the seventh of ten siblings. After attending school in 1913, she worked as a housemaid and nanny in a Milan household for a year. From 1914 to 1918 she trained as a nurse at the Red Cross in Zurich ; She then worked as a private carer in various places in Switzerland and abroad. In 1921 she married the watchmaker Karl August Müller, with whom she a. a. lived in Biel , Brussels and Basel . At times she worked as a helper in the watch industry .

After the divorce of her first marriage in 1930, she married the Basel painter and communist functionary Karl Aegerter in 1932 . She joined the Communist Party and was involved in trade union work; later she and her husband switched to the Social Democratic Party . After she had already written occasional journalistic work by 1934 , Karl Aegerter encouraged his wife to write her first novel , which appeared under the pseudonym "Elisabeth Gerter" and in which the author processed her experiences as a nurse. Even for their second narrative work, the socially critical industrial novel Die Sticker , no Swiss publisher was found , so that, like the following works by Gert, it was self-published by the couple (under the fictitious name "Rengger-Verlag").

After 1945 Elisabeth Gerter became increasingly active as a journalist ; she was also involved in the Swiss women's suffrage movement and in the Swiss Writers' Association . She died of a brain tumor after a long period of suffering .

Elisabeth Gerter wrote novels, short stories and radio plays . After her death, she was largely forgotten, but is now regarded as an important socially critical and feminist author of Swiss literature in the first half of the twentieth century.

Works

  • Sister Lisa. The wrong path of a woman . Gutenberg Book Guild , Zurich 1934
  • The stickers. Novel . Rengger, Aarau 1938
  • The strange sound. Novel . Rengger, Aarau 1944 (extended second version by sister Lisa )
  • The silver gate. Novella . Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1945
  • The big question. Novellas . Rengger, Aarau 1953
  • Because they know about light. Novel . Rengger, Aarau 1955
  • Leonie, the last pit horse. Story from a Belgian coal mine . SJW (Volume 515), Zurich 1955
  • The blessing. Poems, aphorisms . Rengger, Aarau 1955
  • Diina. Animal stories . Rengger, Aarau 1957
  • The door of fate. Novellas . Rengger, Aarau 1957
  • The circle of external and internal things. Novel . Rengger, Aarau 1962
  • The golden lie. Narratives . Unionsverlag, Zurich 1981

literature

  • In memory of the poet Elisabeth Gerter . Published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of death with the assistance of Karl Aegerter. Rengger, Aarau 1965
  • Sandra Meier et al. (Ed.): Not the world that I meant. Elisabeth Gerter - Life and Work . Efef, Wettingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-905561-70-8

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personal data
SURNAME Gerter, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Elisabeth (maiden name); Aegerter, Elisabeth (real name after marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Gossau
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1955
Place of death Riehen