Emilie Locher-Werling

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Anna Emilie Locher-Werling (born March 13, 1870 in Riesbach , † August 5, 1963 in São Paulo ) was a Zurich dialect author. Sometimes she also wrote under the pseudonyms Lisi Meier, Anneli Witzig or Gritli Wüest .

Life

Emilie Locher-Werling was born in the then still independent municipality of Riesbach, now part of the city of Zurich. Her father was the master carpenter Wilhelm Werling. Since both parents died when Emilie was seven years old, she grew up with relatives. In 1892 she married the businessman Fritz Locher.

After training as a seamstress, she continued her education in language, literature and recitation courses and began to write. In 1902 she unexpectedly emerged as the winner in a writing competition organized by the Zurich Dramatic Association with the play Wie's ä chan gah (“How it can go”). The play was later performed at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. This was followed by numerous plays for clubs, festive occasions and family celebrations. The well-known folk actor Emil Hegetschweiler played in some productions . She was made an honorary member of the Zurich Dramatic Society.

As an employee of the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger newspaper , she edited the children's supplement for years. She was also the editor of the illustrated monthly newspaper Der Helfer, which first appeared in Zurich in 1933. In Zurich German she wrote for the theater productions of later stories and poems. Some of her poems were published in 1962 as dialect songs with sheet music by Edwin Kunz in 1962 in the Swiss Singbuch Unterstufe . The song she wrote, Abiglüte am Zürisee (“Abendläuten am Zürichsee ”), was set to music in 1947 by the Zolliker teacher and composer Jakob Spörri (1886–1965).

In 1941 Emilie Locher-Werling emigrated to Brazil with her daughter and granddaughter . Her son worked there as the director of a silk weaving mill, but died shortly after his mother's arrival of a tropical disease.

To mark her 80th birthday, the Zurich Dramatic Society and the “Bund Schwyzertütsch, Züri Group” organized a memorial event on March 15, 1950 in the Gottfried Keller school building on Zurich's Minervastrasse. The author sent manuscripts from Brazil, from which they were recited and songs she wrote were performed. The conclusion was a performance of her play The inner voice .

The Zurich writer Carl Seelig wrote about Emilie Locher-Werling: "The writer did not reach for the highest stars, but through her sympathetic philanthropy she became a motherly friend and a popular Zurich figure."

Emilie Locher-Werling died in São Paulo in 1963 at the age of 93.

Works (selection)

  • How's a cha gah! Theatre. 1905.
  • It Sächsilüüte . Theatre. 1908.
  • Wise Blueme. Züritüütschi poem. Poetry collection. 1913.
  • De Landvogt vo Gryfesee. Theatre. 1914.
  • 's Sunneschynli and' s Dummerli. Children's book. 1925.
  • Oeppis vom Osterhas, picture book. 1926.
  • I dr Morgesunne. Remember us dr Chindezyt. 1927.
  • S 'Klärli dreams it Märli. Children's book. 1928.
  • In the Abigrot. Züritüütschi poem. Poetry collection. 1929.
  • Story for chlyni Tierfründ. Children's book. 1933.
  • Animal show. Children's book. 1958.

literature

  • Ernst Bleuler: Emilie Locher-Werling on her 80th birthday. In: Schweizerische Lehrerinnenzeitung, 54, 1949–1950, issue 13, pp. 200 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Emilie Locher-Werling. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Carl Seelig : Greetings to an eighty year old. In: Tages-Anzeiger of March 13, 1950.
  • Doris Stump et al .: German-speaking women writers in Switzerland 1700–1945. A bibliography. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1994, p. 135.
  • Anna Stüssi: Locher-Werling, (Anna) Emilie. In: German Literature Lexicon . Biographical-bibliographical manual. Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. 3rd, completely revised edition. Volume 9: Kober - Lucidarius. Edited by Heinz Rupp and Carl Ludwig Lang. Francke, Bern / Munich 1984, Sp. 1557 f.

References

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swissbib
  2. ↑ Recording with children's choir
  3. ^ Ernst Bleuler: Emilie Locher-Werling on the 80th birthday. In: Schweizerische Lehrerinnenzeitung, 54, 1949–1950, issue 13.
  4. ↑ a b Carl Seelig: Greetings to an eighty year old. In: Tages-Anzeiger of March 13, 1950.
personal data
SURNAME Locher-Werling, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meier, Lise; Funny, Anneli; Wüest, Gritli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zurich dialect writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesbach
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1963
Place of death São Paulo