Gertrud Wilker

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Gertrud Wilker (born March 18, 1924 in Solothurn ; † September 25, 1984 in Herrenschwanden near Bern ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Gertrud Wilker was born in Solothurn in 1924 as the daughter of the chief customs officer Max Hürsch. She grew up in Bern, where she also attended schools and took her school-leaving exams in 1946 . She married the student (and later mathematics professor) Peter Wilker , with whom she had two children (born 1956 and 1961), and studied German, art history and psychology in Bern, Paris and Zurich.

She taught German at the New Business School in Bern for five years before moving to the USA with her husband and two children for two years in 1962. She processed this time literarily in Collages USA. A report from 1968. In 1980 she chose a woman-loving woman as the main character for her novel "Nachleben", which is the first time in the history of fiction literature in German-speaking Switzerland that the subject of lesbian love was designed by an author.

In 1978 her life had taken a decisive turn: an incurable disease was diagnosed, operations followed and she was struggling with severe depression. In this situation she began to deal intensively with life and death. In the last years of her life she turned to Jewish mysticism. She died in 1984 at home in Herrenschwanden.

Awards

  • 1959 Prize in the drama competition of the Atelier-Theater Bern
  • 1968 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
  • 1971 Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
  • 1971 Book Prize of the City of Bern
  • 1973 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
  • 1978 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
  • 1981 Book Prize of the City of Bern
  • 1982 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern

Works

Original editions

  • Content and form in the German sonnet from Goethe to Rilke . Dissertation Bern 1952
  • The kite / a conversation . Two stories. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1959
  • Elegy to the future . Novel. Flamberg, Zurich 1966
    • reissued as wolf shadow . A family novel. Huber, Frauenfeld 1980
  • Four poems . Rhythmic arrangement of the poems by Bruno Pfäffli. Flamberg, Zurich 1966
  • Collages USA . A report. Flamberg, Zurich 1968
  • Make a father out of words. What is described - what is told - what is shown . Flamberg, Zurich 1970
  • Old storage with a small fire . Novel. Flamberg, Zurich 1971
  • Iota . Novel. Flamberg, Zurich 1973
  • Winter village . Stories. Huber, Frauenfeld 1977, ISBN 3-7193-0566-X .
  • Look at my own kind . 28 women stories. Huber, Frauenfeld 1979, ISBN 3-7193-0628-3 .
  • Afterlife . Novel. Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7193-0689-5 .
  • Findings for later . Poems. Huber, Frauenfeld 1981, ISBN 3-7193-0808-1 .
  • Twelve views of Fujiama . Hallwag, Bern 1985
  • Elegy to the future . A reader. Compiled by Beatrice Eichmann-Leutenegger and Charles Linsmayer . Huber, Frauenfeld 1990, ISBN 978-3-7193-1022-6 (selection, with first publications from the estate).

As editor

Radio

literature

  • Benita Cantieni : Swiss writer personally , Huber, Frauenfeld 1983, pp. 143–159, ISBN 3-7193-0883-9
  • Christa Grötzinger Strupler: "But is it possible to revive life afterwards with words?" To the short prose work Gertrud Wilkers. Selected texts from the publications and the estate . Peter Lang (Texts and Studies on Literature in German-speaking Switzerland 10), Bern 2004, ISBN 978-3-03910-385-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Madeleine Marti: "Deposited messages. The representation of lesbian women in German-language literature since 1945", M&P Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1991 (p. 279 ff., Chapter on Gertrud Wilker)


personal data
SURNAME Wilker, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hürsch, Gertrud (single name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1984
Place of death Herrenschwanden