Erwin Jaeckle

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Portrait of Erwin Jaeckle, undated

Erwin Jaeckle (born August 12, 1909 in Zurich , † October 2, 1997 ibid) was a Swiss writer , journalist and politician .

Life

Jaeckle studied philosophy and German literature and received his doctorate in 1937 from the University of Zurich on Rudolf Pannwitz . He first worked as an editor at Atlantis Verlag and married in 1941. From 1943 to 1971 he was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Die Tat , and from 1962 to 1977 editor of the cultural supplement Literary Tat . He belonged to the core of the Zurich “Friday Round” - a literary circle that existed from 1942 to 1965 - together with Ernst Howald , Eduard Korrodi , Walther Meier , Max Rychner and Emil Staiger .

In 1937 he became a member of the newly founded state ring of the independents , for which he was in the municipal council of Zurich from 1942 to 1950 (1945 as its president) and from 1947 to 1962 in the national council .

Awards

Works

Prose works

  • The fate drift . Rohr, Zurich 1979
  • Written on the nail . Calatra, Lahnstein 1986
  • The Dalmatian night of love . Calatra, Lahnstein 1995
  • Our daily bread and other stories . Calatra, Lahnstein 1995

Volumes of poetry

  • The wine press of the heart . Atlantis, Zurich 1943
  • Shadowless . Speer, Zurich 1947
  • Poems from all winds . Atlantis, Zurich 1956
  • Happiness in glass . Atlantis, Zurich 1957
  • But the honey smells of thyme . Atlantis, Zurich 1961
  • Heavenly laughter . Atlantis, Zurich 1962
  • In the grid of the hours . Tschudy, St. Gallen 1963
  • The ox ride . Atlantis, Zurich 1967
  • Message from the fish . Atlantis, Zurich 1969
  • The root of the tongue . Private print, Zurich 1971
  • Einckgedichte . Classen, Zurich 1974
  • The growing poem . Arcade-Presse, Zurich 1976
  • The fullness of renunciation . Calatra, Lahnstein 1991
  • The everyday mirror writing . Self-published, Zurich 1992
  • The seven silver. Collected poems . 3 volumes. Calatra, Lahnstein 1994
  • The unthinkable trace. Accompanying poems of the Siebensilber . Calatra, Lahnstein 1995

Essays / non-fiction books

  • Rudolf Pannwitz. Representation of his worldview . Ellermann, Hamburg 1937
  • From the spirit of the big letters . Private print, Halle 1937
  • Guarantors of the human . Atlantis, Zurich 1945
  • The phenomenology of life . Speer, Zurich 1951
  • Small school of speech and silence . Vineta, Basel 1951
  • ABC from Lake Zurich . Atlantis, Zurich 1956
  • The Swiss Air Force in the Cold War of Interests . LdU, Zurich 1958
  • Phenomenology of space . Speer, Zurich 1959
  • The golden lull. About the wordless art of sailing . Arche, Zurich 1959
  • Circle of poetry . Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1967
  • The Zurich literature shock. Report . Langen-Müller, Munich 1968
  • The rune of fate in oracle, dream and trance . Arben-Presse, Arbon 1969
  • Signature of glory. Nature in the poem . Atlantis, Zurich 1970
  • The Easter Church . Klett, Stuttgart 1970
  • Evolution of poetry . Klett, Stuttgart 1972
  • Poet and drug . Benziger, Zurich 1973
  • The Zurich Friday Round. Contributions to the history of literature . Rohr, Zurich 1975
  • Rudolf Pannwitz and Albert Verwey in correspondence . Rohr, Zurich 1976
  • My Alemannic story . 2 volumes. Rohr, Zurich 1976
  • Builder of the Invisible Church. Lessing - Adam Müller - Carus . Klett, Stuttgart 1977
  • Shadow path . Memories, Volume 1. Rohr, Zurich 1978
  • The colors of the plant . Klett, Stuttgart 1979
  • No man's land of the thirties . Memories, Volume 2. Rohr, Zurich 1979
  • On the threshold of world ages . Novalis, Schaffhausen 1981
  • From the visible mind. Natural philosophy . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1984
  • Certificates for the Friday round . Rohr, Zurich 1984
  • Ernst Jünger's diary of the century . Calatra, Lahnstein 1986
  • Paracelsus and the exodus of the elementals . Calatra, Lahnstein 1987
  • The idea of ​​Europe . Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main 1988
  • Memories of "Die Tat" 1943–1971 . Rohr, Zurich 1989
  • The Johannine message. Confusing riddle - happy miracle . Calatra, Lahnstein 1989
  • The complementary teachings of transcendental epistemology and the theory of evolution that constitutes knowledge. A suggestion . Calatra, Lahnstein 1990
  • Guided by my pansophy . Calatra, Lahnstein 1992
  • The alga that invented death. Natural history meditations . Calatra, Lahnstein 1992
  • The lifeline. A strange biography . Good, Stäfa 1993
  • Guarantors of the West. New contributions to the "European Idea" . Calatra, Lahnstein 1993
  • The witch's uniqueness of the mirror. An essay . Calatra, Lahnstein 1997
  • My Tao Tê King . Novalis, Schaffhausen 1999, ISBN 3-907160-59-2

As editor

  • Rudolf Pannwitz: Lebenshilfe (with Hans Trüb). Niehans, Zurich 1938
  • Public art works in Zurich . Atlantis, Zurich 1939
  • Thoughts of Jean Paul . Atlantis, Zurich 1940
  • Paracelsus . His world view in words of the work . Atlantis, Zurich 1943
  • Rudolf Pannwitz: Lost and Forgotten . A selection with an epilogue for the 100th birthday. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983
  • Big Swiss. A hundred portraits (with Eduard Stäuble ). Gut, Stäfa 1990, ISBN 3-85717-064-6

literature

  • Georg Schneider: Erwin Jaeckle - portrait of a poet and essayist . In: Welt und Wort 27, October 1972, Issue 10, ISSN  0043-2571 , pp. 505-554.
  • Willem Enzinck, Eduard Stäuble : Erwin Jaeckle in portrait and self-portrait . Calatra Press Enzinck, Lahnstein 1994, ISBN 3-88138-114-7 .
  • Andreas Mauz: "We are gradually growing too". Rudolf Pannwitz and Erwin Jaeckle in correspondence . In: QUARTO. Journal of the Swiss Literature Archives 19, 2004, ISSN  1023-6341 , pp. 62–84.
  • Andreas Mauz: "... that you [...] take over the mediation between the creator of a new world and your old country". Rudolf Pannwitz and Erwin Jaeckle in correspondence, along with comments on Pannwitz 'performance and Jaeckle's emphatic reception . In: Gabriella Rovagnati (ed.): “The spirit is the king of the elements”. The poet and philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz . Bücken & Sulzer, Overath 2006, ISBN 3-936405-31-X , pp. 43–84.
  • Pirmin Meier : Learn the life and live the learning. Outlook on the author, publicist and private scholar Erwin Jaeckle (1909 - 1997) on his 100th birthday . Foundation for Occidental Ethics and Culture, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-033-02135-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jaeckle, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1997
Place of death Zurich