Franziska Stoecklin

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Franziska Stoecklin (born September 11, 1894 in Basel ; † September 1, 1931 there ) was a Swiss writer and artist.

Life

Stoecklin was the daughter of the Basel businessman Johann Niklaus Stoecklin (1859-1923) and his wife Genoveva Fanny Stoecklin-Müller (1859-1939). One of her brothers was the painter Niklaus Stöcklin .

After attending the trade school in Basel, she went into business for herself in 1913 and began an artistic bohemian life . The following year she traveled to Munich with her brother Niklaus and a friend, where she met Karl Wolfskehl , Johannes R. Becher , Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings, among others . After the outbreak of the First World War , she returned to Switzerland.

In 1920 she married Harry Betz, a bookseller's assistant from Zurich. The divorce took place in 1928. After the separation, suffering from a severe heart condition, she moved to Ticino , where she socialized with the Ball-Hennings couple and received literary support from Rainer Maria Rilke . In 1931 she died after spending a year in St. Claraspital in Basel.

In 1920 she published her first volume of poetry. This was followed by two volumes of lyrical prose and, in 1925, another volume of poetry The Singing Shell . The themes of her poetry are dream, love, death and nature, with love poetry dominating in the first volume, while the subject of death comes to the fore in the second volume. The following poem may serve as an example:

When the moon is big

When it gets evening I think of your smile,
Black Angel, that spoils my dreams.

In autumn we often sat on the benches by the river,
silent children, in the evening sun.

Then when your hand gently stroked my hair,
O how happy the soul was.

Since then, sad years have passed,
fears and madness, crumbling evenings.

When the moon is big, my pale shadow prays
dances lost in your room.

In addition to her poetic work, she was a painter, lithographer , wood cutter and embroiderer .

Exhibitions

  • 1916 Galerie Wolfsberg, Zurich (dancers, tightrope walkers)
  • 1919 Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 1928 Galerie Forter, Zurich (carnival pictures)

Works

  • Poems. Seldwyla, Bern 1920.
  • Lovers. Two novels. Seldwyla, Bern [1921].
  • Dream reality. Prose poems. Seldwyla [K. Hönn], Zurich 1923.
  • The singing clam. Poems. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1925.

Output:

  • Poetry and prose. Ed. by Beatrice Mall-Grob. Paul Haupt, Bern a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-258-04997-1 .

literature

  • Beatrice Mall-Grob: "The double sound". Thoughts on the life and work of Francisca Stoecklin. In: Francisca Stoecklin: Poetry and Prose. Ed. v. Beatrice Mall-Grob. Paul Haupt, Bern a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-258-04997-1 , pp. 195-211.
  • Olga Brand: Franziska Stoecklin In: Quiet work. Swiss poets. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1949, pp. 123–130.
  • Charles Linsmayer: Stoecklin, Franziska. In: Killy literary dictionary - authors and works of the German-speaking cultural area. Volume 11. De Gruyter, Berlin & New York 2011.
  • Stöcklin, Franziska . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 86 .
  • Stöcklin, Franziska . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 366 .
  • Beatrice Mall-Grob: Stoecklin, Francisca. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Poetry and prose. Ed. by Beatrice Mall-Grob. Paul Haupt, Bern a. a. 1994, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Stoecklin, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Betz-Stoecklin, Franziska (married name); Stöcklin, Francisca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1931
Place of death Basel