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Ernst Zahn (around 1900), etching by Johann Lindner

Ernst Zahn (born January 24, 1867 in Zurich ; † February 12, 1952 in Meggen LU ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Ernst Zahn was born the son of a hotelier from Bavaria . He grew up in Zurich in his father's restaurant in the Baugarten and, after years of apprenticeship in England and Italy, took over his father's business in Göschenen in 1887 . At the same time he became a member of the municipal council and later a member of the Uri district administrator . In 1893 he married Lina Fäh.

In 1913 he was elected President of the Swiss Writers' Association (SSV). He had to resign from this office the following year as a result of his enthusiastic support for the German Reich in the outbreak of the First World War . In 1916 he gave up his hotelier profession and then lived as a freelance writer in Meggen , where he had a house built called Stilles Ufer , and in Zurich.

As a native poet, however, he had his greatest success in Germany, especially with the depiction of the impressive alpine world. This is how his novel Frau Sixta was made into a film .

After the Second World War , Zahn was largely forgotten. He found his final resting place in the Enzenbühl cemetery in Zurich .

On January 24, 1937, the community made Meggen Ernst Zahn an honorary citizen. A bust of him is on the Meggener Seeacherplatz.

Works (selection)

stories

  • Heart struggles. A story from the Swiss mountains.
    Schröter, Zurich 1893.
  • Echo! Novellas and sketches. Keller, Lucerne 1895.
  • People. New stories. DVA, Stuttgart 1900.
  • Half of the shadow. Three stories. DVA, Stuttgart 1904.
  • Everyday heroes. A book of novels. DVA, Stuttgart 1906.
  • One day there must be peace again! Stories and verses. DVA,
    Stuttgart 1916.
  • Verena Stadler. Narrative. Hillger, Berlin 1917.
  • Night. A story. Huber, Frauenfeld 1917.
  • The blasphemer. Narrative. Huber, Frauenfeld 1917.
  • Mountain country. Four seals. DVA, Stuttgart 1917.
  • The second Life. A story. DVA, Stuttgart 1918.
  • Lotte Esslinger's will and way. Narrative. DVA, Stuttgart 1919.
  • Blancheflur. A story. DVA, Stuttgart 1923.
  • The cross. Narrative. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1933.
  • Struggles. Narrative. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • Hill tribe. Three novels. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • Firn wind. New stories. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • They come and go! A book by people. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • What breaks life. Stories. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • The sinking day. Stories. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • The light. Six little novels. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • The princess's bus ride. A Christmas fairy tale in 4 acts. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • New mountain novels. Publishing house Huber & Co, Frauenfeld.
  • The yodel boy. Publishing house Huber & Co, Frauenfeld.
  • Swiss. Dürr & Weber, Leipzig-Gaschwitz.

Novels

  • Erni Behaim. A Swiss novel from the 15th century. DVA, Stuttgart 1898.
  • Albin Indergand. Huber, Frauenfeld 1901.
  • The Clari-Marie. DVA, Stuttgart 1905.
  • Lukas Hochstrasser's house. DVA, Stuttgart 1907.
  • Lonliness. DVA, Stuttgart 1910.
  • The women of Tannò. Huber, Frauenfeld 1911.
  • The pharmacist from Klein-Weltwil. DVA, Stuttgart 1913.
  • Severin Imboden's love. Huber, Frauenfeld 1916.
  • Jonas Truttmann. DVA, Stuttgart 1921.
  • Goddess threads. DVA, Stuttgart (<1926).
  • Mrs. Sixta. A novel from the mountains. DVA, Stuttgart 1925.
  • The wedding of Gaudenz Orell. DVA, Stuttgart, 1926.
  • Board game of life. DVA, Stuttgart 1928.
  • Violence over them. DVA, Stuttgart 1929.
  • The ferryman Adrian Risch. DVA, Stuttgart 1932.
  • The way up. DVA, Stuttgart 1935.
  • The millennial road. DVA, Stuttgart 1939.

Poems and plays

  • Poems. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • Mountain country. Four seals. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • Johannes A Pro. DVA, Stuttgart.

youth

  • Tales from the mountains for the young. Selected from his works. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • Youth day. A book for the youth. DVA, Stuttgart.
  • Four stories from the “Heroes of Everyday Life”. Selected for the youth by the Nuremberg youth protection agency. DVA, Stuttgart.

literature

  • Ernst Kammerhoff: Ernst Zahn. Its poetry and its interpretation. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1917.
  • Karl Kohl: Ernst Zahn as a poet and a person. Kemper, Heidelberg-Waibstadt 1947.
  • Ernst Zahn on his 70th birthday. In: The Bern Week in Words and Images , Vol. 27, 1937, pp. 136-137. ( e-periodica )

Web links

Commons : Ernst Zahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mrs. Sixta. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Table of contents of the work Lukas Hochstrasser's house at 116. – 165. Thousandth People's Edition, C. Bertelsmann Verlag Gütersloh, 1935.
  3. ^ Honorary citizen of the municipality of Meggen , website of the municipality of Meggen.
personal data
SURNAME Zahn, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1952
Place of death Meggen LU