Federico Hindermann

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Federico Hindermann (born July 27, 1921 in Biella , Piedmont , Italy ; † January 31, 2012 in Aarau ) was a Swiss Romance writer , journalist , poet , translator , editor and publishing director .

Life

Hindermann's father was Swiss, his mother Italian. He spent his childhood in Turin and his youth in Basel . He studied Romance studies and comparative literature in Basel and Zurich , at the same time he was an editor at the Basler “National-Zeitung” (today Basler Zeitung) from around 1940 to 1946, then was an editor at Atlantis-Verlag and employee of the magazine “Atlantis” (Länder , Völker, Reisen) from February 1947 to circa 1962; In 1947 he married the pediatrician Mathilde Kraft. For the trimester 1950/51 he was a German lecturer at Oxford, and received his doctorate in 1955 in Zurich with Pictures of Love Poetry: Contributions to a Historical Topic (Zurich 1963). From 1966 to 1969 he was a colleague of Gustav Siebenmann Professor of Romance Philology (French and Italian Literature) at the University of Erlangen . He then worked in Zurich as a translator and editor and from 1971 to 1986 as head of the Manesse publishing house .

Hindermann published poems in German and especially in Italian since 1941, the latter from 1978 to 1986 in Vanni Scheiwiller's Milan publishing house. He translated numerous authors from French and Italian into German.

Works (selection)

Release

  • Anecdotes from world literature , Zurich 1980
  • Children in World Literature , Zurich 1981
  • Cats in World Literature , Zurich 1982
  • Swiss narrator , Zurich 1985
  • Birds in World Literature , Zurich 1986
  • Italian storytellers , 2 vols., Zurich 1991
  • I'll tell you, beloved trees ... Texts from world literature , Zurich 1999

Poems

  • Quanto silenzio , Milano 1978
  • Docile contro , Milano 1980
  • Trottola , Milan 1983
  • Baratti , Milano 1984
  • Ai ferri corti , Milano 1985
  • Quest'episodio , Milano 1986
  • Quanto silenzio , Milano 1992
  • Perché dobbiam the, margherita? Bellinzona 2002
  • Poetry 1978–2001 , Verona 2002
  • Un pugno di mosche , Locarno 2003.
  • Bocca di leone , Locarno 2004.
  • Girandola di farfalle , Locarno 2006
  • Submissive on the other hand. Docile contro. Poems , selected and translated by Antonella Pilotto, with a foreword by Fabio Pusterla , Limmat Verlag , Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85791-563-5 .
  • Semper altrove. Poetry scelte 1971-2012 , selected by Matteo M. Pedroni, Marcos y Marcos, Milano 2018, ISBN 978-88-7168-813-8 .

Prices

1980: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize

literature

  • Alice Vollenweider : A lover of the penumbra. The poet Federico Hindermann turns eighty, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 27, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Hindermann, Federico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Romance philologist, journalist, poet, translator, editor and publishing director
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Biella , Piedmont , Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2012
Place of death Aarau