Franz Wurm (writer)

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Franz Wurm (born March 16, 1926 in Prague ; died September 29, 2010 in Ascona ) was a Czechoslovak- Swiss poet , writer and translator from French ( René Char ), Czech ( Vladimír Holan ) and English ( Moshé Feldenkrais , Richard Dove ).

Life

In 1939 he was sent to relatives in England by his parents and thus saved from Hitler's racial madness. He attended school there, Cheltenham College, and studied German and Romance languages ​​at Queen's College at Oxford University from 1943 to 1947 . His parents died in or during the evacuation of Auschwitz.

In 1949 he moved to Zurich . Since 1960 he was friends with Paul Celan . He was also friends with HG Adler , Samuel Beckett , Michael Hamburger , René Char and many other writers. He also maintained contacts with composers such as Bernd Alois Zimmermann . From 1966 to 1969 he was head of the cultural program at Radio DRS in Zurich. From 1969 to 1971 he lived in Prague, then returned to Zurich to take up residence in Tel Aviv for six months in 1974 . After his return, he founded the Feldenkrais Institute together with Moshé Feldenkrais in Zurich , which he then headed. His drama Among Others was successfully staged at the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 1991 to 1992. He spent the last years of his life withdrawn in Ascona.

Works (selection)

  • Registration , 1959 (poems)
  • Anker und Unruh , 1964 (poems)
  • Dog Days , 1986 (poems)
  • In this case , 1989 (poems)
  • Dirzulande , 1990 (poems)
  • Fifty-three poems , 1996
  • King on the roof. An omission , 1997
  • Echo of Time , 2000 (poems)
  • Blue Oranges , 2005 (essay)

literature

  • Martin Dreyfus: Wurm, Franz. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 553f.

Web links

  • Entry on Franz Wurm on buchstart.ch

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Celan and Franz Wurm: Correspondence. Edited by Barbara Wiedemann in connection with Franz Wurm. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main, 2003 ISBN 3-518-45515-X
  2. ↑ Compare the work-related correspondence in the Bernd Alois Zimmermann archive of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Wurm, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2010
Place of death Ascona