Giorgio Orelli

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Giorgio Orelli (1994) at the Solothurn Literature Days

Giorgio Orelli (born May 25, 1921 in Airolo , Canton Ticino ; † November 10, 2013 in Ravecchia , Canton Ticino) was a Swiss writer , literary critic and translator .

Life

Giorgio Orelli was a cousin of the Ticino novelist and poet Giovanni Orelli . After studying in Friborg , Giorgio Orelli moved to Bellinzona , where he taught Italian literature until 1982 , first at the Scuola cantonale di commercio (cantonal commercial school), where the poet Pericle Patocchi also taught, and later at the Liceo cantonale ( Canton school).

Most of his works - mainly poetry and essays - have been translated into German. Orelli himself translated a selection of poems by Goethe in 1957 and poems by Andri Peer into Italian in 1975 .

For his 80th birthday in 2001 , Hans Ulrich Lehmann set poems to music under the title Partita di ritorno su poesie di Giorgio Orelli , a work for baritone, bass clarinet and violoncello. Other interpreters of Orelli's poems included a. Lucio Dalla .

In 2014, the village square in Prato Leventina was renamed “Piazza Giorgio Orelli”, and since 2018 the city of Bellinzona has been awarding the “Premio Giorgio Orelli - Città di Bellinzona” alternately to a poet or a literary critic.

Publications

Poems

  • Né bianco né viola. Collana di Lugano, Lugano 1944.
  • Prima dell'anno nuovo. Leins e Vescovi, Bellinzona 1952.
  • Poetry. Edizioni della Meridiana, Milan 1953.
  • Nel cerchio familiare. Scheiwiller, Milan 1960.
  • L'ora del tempo. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , Milan 1962.
  • 6 poetry. Scheiwiller, Milan 1964.
  • 5 poetry. With 5 screen prints by Madja Ruperti. San Nazzaro 1973.
  • Sinopia. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan 1977.
  • Spiracoli. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan 1989.
  • Il collo dell'anitra. Garzanti, Milan 2001.
  • Tutte le poesie. Arnoldo Mondadori "Oscar poesia", Milan 2015.

prose

  • Un giorno della vita. Lerici, Milan 1960.
  • Pomeriggio bellinzonese. In: Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli. Casagrande, Bellinzona 1978.

Essays

  • Accertamenti verbali. Bompiani, Milan 1978.
  • Quel ramo del Lago di Como. Casagrande, Bellinzona 1982 and 1990.
  • Accertamenti montaliani (via Eugenio Montale ). Il Mulino, Bologna 1984.
  • Il suono dei sospiri. Einaudi, Turin 1990.
  • Foscolo e la danzatrice. Pratiche, Parma 1992.
  • La qualità del senso. Dante , Ariosto e Leopardi . Casagrande, Bellinzona 2012.

Works (in German)

  • Second leg - Partita di ritorno. Poems in Italian and German. Selected and translated by Christoph Ferber . With a conversation between Giorgio Orelli and Alice Vollenweider and an afterword by Maria Antonietta Grignani. Limmat Verlag , Zurich 1998; 2nd corrected edition 1999, ISBN 3-85791-318-5 .
  • Tell the blackbirds - Ditelo ai merli. Poems in Italian and German. Selected and translated by Christoph Ferber. With an afterword and a conversation with Giorgio Orelli by Pietro De Marchi . Limmat, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85791-556-7 .
  • Un giorno della vita. Stories in Italian and in the German translation by Julia Dengg. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85791-704-2 .

Prices

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L'addio a Giorgio Orelli: "Torneremo a incontrarlo con riconoscenza". In: tio.ch from November 12, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Orelli, Giorgio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, literary critic and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Airolo , Canton Ticino
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2013
Place of death Ravecchia , Canton Ticino