Giovanni Orelli

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Giovanni Orelli (born October 30, 1928 in Bedretto , Canton Ticino ; † December 3, 2016 in Lugano ) was a Swiss writer whose work includes prose and poetry .

Life

Orelli was the cousin of his fellow Ticino writer Giorgio Orelli . He studied at the University of Zurich and then in Milan at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, where he obtained a degree in medieval and humanistic philology from Giuseppe Billanovich . In Lugano he worked as a high school teacher for Italian literature from 1963 to 1992 . He also worked for radio and television in Italian-speaking Switzerland . For the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland he was a member of the Ticino cantonal parliament for one legislative period .

His archive is located in the Swiss Literature Archive in Bern .

In 2012 Orelli received the Grand Schiller Prize together with Peter Bichsel .

Works

in German
  • The long winter. A story from the Ticino mountains. Translated by Charlotte Birnbaum. Rascher, Zurich 1966 (original title: L'anno della valanga, 1965); New edition, with a foreword by Alice Vollenweider . Limmat, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85791-435-1 .
  • A festival in the village. Narrative. Translated by Renate Tietze. Benziger, Zurich 1974 (original title: La festa del ringraziamento , 1972), ISBN 3-545-36202-7 .
  • Monopoly. Novel. Translated by Elke Büsser-Schwenn. Ammann, Zurich 1986; New edition: Limmat, Zurich 2013 (original title: Il gioco del Monopoly , 1980), ISBN 978-3-85791-725-7
  • with Maren Heyne : Gresso, 999 m sm. A mountain village in transition. Epilog by Dieter Bachmann (translated by Donata Berra Schwendimann). Zytglogge, Gümligen 1991, ISBN 3-7296-0383-3 (texts in Italian and German).
  • The four literatures of Switzerland. With Iso Camartin , Roger Francillon, Doris Jakubec. Published by Pro Helvetia . Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-908102-20-0 .
  • From the beautiful horizon - E mentre a Belo Horizonte. Poems in Italian and German. Translated by Christoph Ferber . Limmat, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85791-436-X .
  • Walacek's dream. Novel. Translated by Maja Pflug . Limmat, Zurich 2008 (original title: Il sogno di Walacek. Einaudi, Turin 1991), ISBN 978-3-85791-562-8 .
  • Gionata Lerolieff's glasses. Translated by Maja Pflug. Weidle, Bonn 2014 (original title: Gli occhiali di Gionata Lerolieff. Donzelli, Rome 2000), ISBN 978-3-938803-62-2 .
Poems (in Italian)
  • Sant'Antoni dai padü: poetry in dialetto leventinese. All'Insegna del Pesce d'oro, Scheiwiller, Milano 1986.
  • Concertino per rane. Casagrande, Bellinzona 1990 (2ª ed. 1993).
  • Né timo né maggiorana. Marcos y Marcos, Milano 1995.
  • L'albero di Lutero. Marcos y Marcos, Milan 1998.
  • Quartine per Francesco. Con una nota di Pietro De Marchi, Interlinea, Novara 2004.
  • Un eterno imperfetto. Garzanti, Milano 2006.
  • Un labirinto. ADV alla chiara fonte. Lugano 2015, ISBN 978-88-7922-117-7 .

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Marchand: Giovanni Orelli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 5, 2016 , accessed January 21, 2020 .
  • Various authors: Un insonne della letteratura. Compagni di via in memoria di Giovanni Orelli (1928-2016). In Il Cantonetto , LXV, No. 2, Fontana Print SA, Lugano dicembre 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrud Leutenegger : The piano on the Schillerstein. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 9, 2012, accessed on December 4, 2016 (essayistic characterization of Orelli).
personal data
SURNAME Orelli, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedretto , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 2016
Place of death Lugano