Guido Looser
Guido Looser (born August 18, 1892 in Kappel , Canton St. Gallen , † November 15, 1937 in Oetwil , Canton Zurich ) was a Swiss writer .
Life
Guido Looser attended a grammar school in Zurich and then from 1912 studied history , German and geography at the universities in Zurich and Berlin ; In 1918 he earned his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on Theodor Mommsen . He then worked as a teacher at the Cantonal School in Zurich. From 1922 he increasingly suffered from depression , which led to longer hospital stays in Kreuzlingen and Oetwil . Looser committed suicide in 1937 in view of the impossibility of continuing to finance adequate hospital stays.
Guido Looser wrote novels , essays and poems . Much of his smaller prose works appeared in newspapers and magazines . Looser's work is strongly influenced by his psychological suffering and revolves around the themes of illness , melancholy and death .
Works
- Mommsen's Art of Representation: Studies on its Roman History ; (Diss.) Zurich 1918
- Nachglanz: poems ; Rhine, Basel 1925
- Joshua's devotion ; Huber, Frauenfeld 1928
- The dignity ; Huber, Frauenfeld / Leipzig 1934
- Just never tell anyone where you are going ; Ed. Charles Linsmayer; Huber Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 1998; ISBN 3-7193-1158-9
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| SURNAME | Looser, Guido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kappel , Canton of St. Gallen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1937 |
| Place of death | Oetwil , Canton of Zurich |