Guy de Pourtales

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Guy de Pourtalès (born August 4, 1881 in Berlin , † June 12, 1941 in Lausanne ) was a French-Swiss writer .

Life

Guy de Pourtalès belonged to the Pourtalès family . His parents were the Swiss sailor Hermann de Pourtalès and Marguerite "Daisy" Marcet (1857–1888). He was born in Berlin, as his father there at the time as an officer in the service of Wilhelm I was stationed. When Guy de Pourtalès was six years old, the family returned to Switzerland. She first lived in the canton of Geneva and after his father's second marriage in 1891 in Mies . Guy de Pourtalès went to school in Geneva and Vevey and attended grammar school in Neuchâtel . After graduating from high school in 1899, he first studied chemistry and music in Germany, and from 1905 literature at the Sorbonne .

After completing his studies, Guy de Pourtalès stayed in Paris and later took French citizenship. In 1911 he married Hélène Marcuard. They had three children: Françoise, Raymond and Rose de Pourtalès.

His first works were La cendre et la flamme (1910) and Solitudes (1913). He also worked for the newspaper Revue hebdomadaire and co-founded the Société littéraire de France . He later translated plays by William Shakespeare into French. Guy de Pourtalès became internationally known for his biographical novels about the famous composers Franz Liszt (1925, German 1927), Frédéric Chopin (1927, German 1935), Richard Wagner (1932, German 1933) and Hector Berlioz (1939, German 1935) . 1940). Other of his novels are about Geneva patricity.

In 1939 Guy de Pourtalès returned to Switzerland, where he was seriously ill and had to witness the outbreak of World War II, the defeat of France and the death of his son Raymond at the front. In 1941 he died in Hopital Nestlé (Lausanne) and was buried in the Etoy VD cemetery.

Honors

Works (excerpt)

  • Franz Liszt: The novel of life , Urban-Verlag, 1927
  • Ludwig II of Bavaria or King Hamlet , Urban-Verlag, 1929
  • Farewell Europe , Urban-Verlag, 1932
  • The blue sound: Friedrich Chopin's life , Urban-Verlag, 1935
  • Richard Wagner: Mensch und Meister , Knaur Nachf., 1933
  • The wonderful fish haul , H. Hugendubel, 1938
  • Fantastic symphony: Hector Berlioz and romantic Europe , P. Hugendubel, 1940

literature

  • Joël Aguet: Guy de Pourtalès . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse. Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1429 f. (French)
  • Françoise Fornerod: Histoire du roman “La pêche miraculeuse” by Guy de Pourtalès . Éditions Slatkine, Geneva 1985, ISBN 2-05-100717-9 (also dissertation, University of Lausanne 1985)
  • Françoise Fornerod: Guy de Pourtalès . In: R. Francillon: Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande . Payot, Lausanne 1997, ISBN 2-601-03183-2 .
  • Suzanne-Aline L'Hopital: La formation d'esprit européen au début du XXème siècle. Guy de Pourtales . University of Lille 1975 (including dissertation, University of Paris 1974).
  • Doria Jakubec (ed.): Guy de Pourtalès et l'âme européenne. Actes du colloque de Lausanne, 11-13 October 1994 (Cahiers de Guy de Pourtalès; vol. 1). Champion, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-8520-3533-2 .
  • Charles Linsmayer : Guy de Pourtalès or The Return to Poetry. The life and work of the author of «La Pêche miraculeuse» / ​​«The wonderful fishing expedition» . Epilogue in: Guy de Pourtalès: The wonderful fish haul , Frauenfeld 1991, ISBN 3-7193-1057-4 , pp. 459-560.
  • Beatrice von Matt : Meinrad Inglin , narrator between wilderness and human society. With a sideways glance at his French-speaking contemporary Guy de Pourtalès . In: Christian von Zimmermann (Ed.): “Shortly after noon the lake was still smooth and peaceful”. New studies on Meinrad Inglin . Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2013, pp. 21–35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy de Pourtalès' family tree at gen-gen.ch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gen-gen.ch  
  2. ^ Anne-Lise Delacrétaz: Guy de Pourtalès. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 23, 2015 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pourtalès, Guy de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pourtalès, Guy James de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1941
Place of death Lausanne