Hans Krattiger

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Hans Krattiger (born April 30, 1914 in Binningen ; † February 17, 1993 in Riehen ; resident in Oberdorf and Riehen) was a Swiss theologian , editor , poet , wood cutter and painter .

life and work

Krattiger grew up as the son of Hans and his mother Marie, née Schaub, who died early, with two older sisters in Binningen and Basel . In 1935, he passed the Federal Matura examination at the Evangelical College in Schiers .

Krattiger then studied theology at the University of Basel and from 1937 in Berlin at the Ecclesiastical College of the Confessing Church . In 1940 he was ordained in the town church of Liestal . Krattiger held his first pastor from 1941 to 1946 in the community of Lütisburg and then worked in Rheinfelden . Krattiger gave up the parish office in 1951 and worked from then on as a journalist .

From 1952 he worked in the editorial department of the Basler National-Zeitung and was responsible for the Saturday supplement “Ratsstübli”. Under the pseudonym “Bebbi” he took over responsibility for the column “Between Wiese and Birs” in the Riehener Zeitung in 1954 . Krattiger and his wife Trudi, née Enzler, acquired the citizenship of Riehen in 1975 and worked full-time for the Riehener Zeitung from 1976 to 1984 . In addition, for almost twenty years he wrote a “letter from Basel” once a week for the Oberbadische Volksblatt as “cousin Jörg”.

On Krattiger's initiative, the Commission for Fine Arts was founded in Riehen in 1970, to which he was a member for many years, and until 1987 he also organized authors' evenings. Krattiger was a member of the editorial team and author of the yearbook z'Rieche . For the community's cultural department, for example, he compiled the résumés of 65 women and men who had lived in Riehen, painting and writing.

As a poet and poet, Krattiger wrote poems in Alemannic dialect . His role models were Johann Peter Hebel and Matthias Claudius . Krattiger created numerous linoleum and woodcuts as well as terracotta sculptures , but above all watercolors with still lifes . He also illustrated poems by Johann Peter Hebels. As a painter and watercolorist, Krattiger exhibited for the first time in 1974 in the gallery “Zur Alten Kanzlei” in Zofingen . Further exhibitions followed in Basel, Riehen, Zug , Jegenstorf Castle and in towns in the Baden neighborhood to which he felt particularly attached.

The community of Hausen im Wiesental awarded Hans Krattiger the Johann-Peter-Hebel commemorative plaque in 1983 . Krattiger was the father of Ursa Krattiger .

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SURNAME Krattiger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian, editor, poet, wood cutter and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Binningen
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1993
Place of death Riehen