Gustav Keckeis
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Gustav Keckeis (born March 27, 1884 in Basel ; † March 10, 1967 there , also Johannes Muron ) was a Swiss publisher and writer .
After studying in Leipzig , Bonn , Lausanne , Bern and Basel , Keckeis received his doctorate in 1907 with a thesis on "dramaturgical problems in the storm and stress ". phil. and became head of the Herder publishing house in Freiburg im Breisgau . After the National Socialists came to power, he came to Zurich and took over the management of the Benziger publishing house in 1935 . From 1939 to 1941, Keckeis was President of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association.
In collaboration with other publishers, he published the Swiss Lexicon in 7 volumes from 1945 to 1948 . In 1953/54 he followed up with the two-volume lexicon of women .
Since 1906, when he made his debut with the stories Von Junge Menschen , Keckeis, who took the pseudonym Johannes Muron , has appeared again and again as a fiction writer. In 1926 and 1928 the two-volume Columbus novel The Spanish Island (new version 1961) was published, and in 1931 the mysterious, mystical Oasis Letters Heaven over Wandering Sand . The novel Das kleine Volk ( Einsiedeln 1939), which commemorates the defensive readiness of a Belgian city during the First World War, was seen as the work of anti-fascist resistance . In 1947 the work The Foreign Time was published , which impressively reviews the history of Switzerland from 1933–1945.
literature
- Karl August Kutzbach: Keckeis, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 388 ( digitized version ).
- Bruno Mariacher (Ed.): Man lives poetically. Letters, memories and articles on the 70th birthday of Gustav Keckeis, Artemis, Zurich 1954
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Keckeis in the catalog of the German National Library
notes
- ↑ Keckeis as "chief editor"; Main editor Blanche Christine Olschak. Encyclios, Zurich Vol. 1: 1953, Vol. 2: 1954. This publishing house, founded especially for this purpose, comprised the publishers Herbert Lang, Eugen Rentsch, Verlag Sauerländer and Hans Huber . Unv. New edition Book Club Ex Libris, Zurich 1956
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keckeis, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muron, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss publisher and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1967 |
| Place of death | Basel |