Franz Rueb

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Franz Rueb (born October 15, 1933 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist , dramaturge and book author.

Life

Franz Rueb spent his childhood in children's homes . He completed his training as a typographer , worked as a German corrector in French-speaking Switzerland and in France for various farmers, farmers and wine producers. He then wrote articles for newspapers as a freelancer, and after a few years became an editor for Vorwärts , a communist Swiss party newspaper. From 1967 to 1969 he was a figurehead in the 1968 movement in Zurich and at the same time sat for the Labor Party in the Zurich Cantonal Council .

In 1970 he went with Peter Stein as a dramaturge for four years at the West Berlin Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer . Back in Switzerland, he first settled on a farm outside Zurich, fathered a son ( Gustav Rueb ) and worked as a freelance journalist. He wrote articles on cultural history for newspapers and magazines, mainly in the early modern period, i.e. in the 16th and 17th centuries.

His first book was commissioned by a publisher: a biography of the Swiss cabaret artist and folk actor Alfred Rasser . He then wrote a book and a radio play about the German humanist Ulrich von Hutten and curated a corresponding exhibition in Zurich, then in Böblingen . This brought Rueb the contract to curate an exhibition in Stuttgart on the history of the state of Baden-Württemberg , which was organized and responsible for 1991/1992 by the Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg and the House of History in Stuttgart. The next subject that preoccupied him was Paracelsus , the miracle doctor of the 16th century. He wrote an extensive monograph on Paracelsus and wrote essays and articles, a radio play and a radio feature about him.

In the 1990s, Rueb studied the history of the witch hunt . This resulted in the book Hexenbrände in 1996 , and in 1997 Hexenflug and Teufelsritt . Mucking out followed in 2005 , a historical novel about the last Zurich witch trial in 1701.

In August 2009 the autobiographical book Rübezahl played left outside . In it Rueb processes and tells about his childhood in homes and his political role in the 1968 movement. In 2016 Rueb published a biography of the Zurich reformer Zwingli .

Works

  • Alfred Rasser. A monograph. Publishing cooperative, Zurich 1975.
  • Ulrich von Hutten. A radical intellectual in the 16th century. Wagenbach, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-8031-2076-4 .
  • The black panther. A true story. With drawings by Cornelia Ziegler. SJW, Zurich 1982 (= SJW , volume 1708).
  • The limping blacksmith god Vulcano. Ulrich von Hutten 1488–1523. Ammann, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-250-10104-4 .
  • Paracelsus myth . Quintessenz, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-86128-276-3 .
  • Witch fires. The Swiss story of the devil's madness. Weltwoche-ABC, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85504-158-X .
  • Witches flight and devil ride. Witches pictures from four centuries. Innaron, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-9520850-7-3 .
  • Leonard Steckel - actor and director. Innaron, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-906527-04-2 .
  • 48 variations on Bach . Reclam, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-379-01695-0 (= RUB , volume 1695).
  • Mucking out. A witch hunt novel. Edition 8, Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-85990-086-8 .
  • Rübezahl played outside left. Memories of a political. Edition 8, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85990-150-6 .
  • Zwingli. Resistant spirit with political instinct. Here and Now, Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-03919-391-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Tobler: The figurehead of the Swiss '68. ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tages-Anzeiger , October 24, 2009, accessed July 15, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tagesanzeiger.ch
  2. ↑ NZZ , accessed on September 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Delf Bucher: An unbeliever believes in Zwingli. In: Reformiert.info, July 16, 2016, accessed on January 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ Christoph Bopp: Zwingli was certainly not a Zwinglian In: Aargauer Zeitung, Kultur, August 24, 2016, accessed on January 3, 2017.
  5. ↑ Niklaus Peter: Huldrych Zwingli. He was not a cultured banause In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, features section, November 30, 2016, accessed on January 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Rueb, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, dramaturge and book author
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich