Hans Kägi (Author)

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Hans Kägi

Hans Kägi (born on April 23, 1889 in Winterthur ; died on December 23, 1971 there ) was a Swiss author , editor and playwright .

Life

Hans Kägi was born in 1889 in his parents' tavern "Metzgerhalle" near Neumarkt in Winterthur. His parents were of rural origin and his father worked as a home and factory worker before he took over the tavern in Winterthur. After dropping out of canton school, he tried an apprenticeship as a station master in Andelfingen for three months . Not satisfied, he tried again at a private school, the graduation to graduate, but failed at this. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Haldengut brewery , which his guardian (his father died when he was five years old) and brewery director Fritz Schoellhorn arranged for him. He also worked as a freelance journalist for the Neue Winterthurer Tagblatt .

In 1911, at the age of 22, he switched to the advertising department at Maggi . At Maggi he also came into contact with other important writers and was able to expand his work as a freelance journalist. In 1917 he was one of the founders of the Winterthur Literary Association . From 1920 he was local and features editor for the Neue Winterthurer Tagblatt. In 1924 he created the first of seven stage works with a play about the Tösser Bauernsturm . As a journalist and theater director, he also became an editor for the Schweizerische Theaterzeitung in the 1950s and was Winterthur's theater correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Nachrichten . For many years he also chaired the city theater commission.

After the landscape department should have been withdrawn from him in 1948, he quit his job after working for the newspaper for decades and moved to Bigorio . There he worked as a Tessin correspondent for various Swiss newspapers, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Thurgauer Zeitung and the Bund . Still living there, he was appointed editor of the Winterthur Yearbook in 1953 and received an honorary gift from the City of Winterthur in the same year.

A year later he returned to Winterthur, where he was editor of the yearbook and local historian until his death in 1971. Until 1960 he shared the editorial work of the yearbook with Walter Frei, director of the publishing house in Winterthur , after which he was the sole editor. Kägi died in Winterthur at the age of 82, his estate is in the Winterthur City Library .

Awards

Works

Publications (selection)

  • Early mowing . Sketches and short stories by Hans Kägi. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1916 (119 pages).
  • The Tösser Bauernsturm . Winterthur Festival 1924. Vogel bookstore, Winterthur 1924 (100 pages).
  • Alfred Huggenberger . Huber, Frauenfeld 1937 (128 pages).
  • Three visits to Alt-Winterthur . with an introduction to Winterthur in the literary mirror. In: Neujahrsblatt der Aülfsgesellschaft Winterthur . No. 79 . Winterthur 1942 (42 pages).
  • The painter Jakob Herzog . Buchdruckerei Winterthur, Winterthur 1944 (90 pages).
  • Caesar von Arx - a Swiss playwright . In: Series of publications by the Schauspielhaus Zürich . No., No. 7 . Zurich 1945 (40 pages).
  • Winterthur . In: Swiss home books . No. 60 . Paul Haupt, Bern 1954 (100 pages).
  • Winterthur yearbooks , years 1954–1972 (1953–1971)
  • Grass between stones. Stories about Winterthur. Gemsberg, Winterthur 1971 (100 pages).

Plays

  • The Tösser Bauernsturm (1924)
  • The Federal Fire (1939)
  • Between Töss and Thur (1951)
  • Elgger Chilbischiessen, 1565 (Ash Wednesday game, 1954)
  • Elgger History Games 760–1535 (for the 1200th anniversary of Elgg, 1960)
  • 700 years of Seuzach (1963)
  • Elgger Ash Wednesday Game 1964 (1964)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Kägi, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss author, editor and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 1971
Place of death Winterthur , Switzerland