Erwin Jaeckle
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
- 1958 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
- 1974 Literature Prize of the City of Zurich
- 1977 Lake Constance Literature Prize from the city of Überlingen
- 1985 Paracelsusring of the city of Villach
- 1985 Cog Literature Prize of the City of Minden
- 1986 Mozart Prize from the Goethe Foundation Basel
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 .
Web links
- Publications by and about Erwin Jaeckle in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Erwin Jaeckle's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Erwin Jaeckle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Erwin Jaeckle in the German Digital Library
- Katja Hürlimann: Jaeckle, Erwin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Estate at the Archives for Contemporary History (PDF)
personal data | |
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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 |