Hans Roelli

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Bench in the Arosa ski area in memory of Hans Roelli

Hans Roelli (born September 7, 1889 in Willisau , † June 5, 1962 in Zurich ) was a Swiss composer , poet , tourism expert and journalist .

Live and act

Hans Roelli wrote a large number of poems and verses and published numerous volumes of poetry and books (for example Es shines the snow , Munich 1934). He was best known as the composer of around 1200 songs, which he was able to condense with the help of composers such as Hans Heusser ( Drei Schlichte Lieder , 1910). Some of them became folk songs , including many soldier songs (for example: I bi soldier and du bisch soldier ). The famous ski yodel ( Lönd de Tüfel drive .. ) also comes from his pen.

Hans Roelli spent a large part of his life in Arosa , where he took over the office of spa director from Felix Moeschlin in 1920 . He worked in this capacity until 1930. During his tenure immediately after the war, Arosa's change from a classic climatic health resort to a winter sports station accelerated . Roelli promoted this development with numerous journalistic texts, brochures and advertising brochures as well as the introduction of new tourist services. In addition, he personally took over the award ceremony of the racing competitions taking place on the Arosa bobsleigh run in Litzirüti .

After his resignation as spa director, Roelli headed the Arosa Kulm Hotel's ski school for many years. When an advertising agency he founded later did not have the desired success, the enthusiastic skier and inventor of the so-called "Roelli cross jump" worked as a self-employed ski instructor to financially support his numerous artistic activities.

Due to his function and sociability, he made friends with numerous personalities in Arosa, such as Hans Morgenthaler or Hermann Hesse , with whom he went on ski tours together. On January 19, 1938, Thomas Mann was one of the guests at one of his numerous recitals. During the Second World War , Roelli performed songs for the soldiers on active service on around 300 evenings as part of the Army and House Section .

Plaque on Roelli's house at Neumarkt 11 in Zurich

Roelli was married three times. In 1917 he married the painter Berta Hedwig Eberle, from whom he divorced in 1924. In 1926 she married Lotte Maria Borst, the daughter of a German industrialist; the marriage was divorced in 1939. In 1941 he married the painter Margrit Hubacher. In 1962, Hans Roelli died in Zurich at the age of 73. He was buried in the Fluntern cemetery.

In 2002, the "Hans and Margrit Roelli Foundation" was created in Zurich to disseminate the work of Hans and Margrit Roelli.

literature

  • The churchgoers trudge up the deeply shoveled path. In: Ueli Haldimann (ed.): Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann and others in Arosa - texts and images from two centuries. AS Verlag und Buchkonzept, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-905111-67-5 , pp. 110–113.
  • Hans Marti: In memory of Hans Roelli. In: Local history of the Wiggertal. Vol. 40, 1982, pp. 247-256. ( Digitized version )
  • Kurt Wanner: Hans Roelli and Walter Kern - two special kind of Graubünden spa directors. In: Bündner monthly newspaper . 4/2015, pp. 401-402.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Video clip award ceremony for the Arosa bobsleigh race with Hans Roelli (rich cup) and Fritz Maron (with list of winners) (before 1930)
  2. ↑ Video clip award ceremony for the Arosa bobsleigh race with Hans Roelli (middle, bald) (before 1930)

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personal data
SURNAME Roelli, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rölli, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Willisau
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1962
Place of death Zurich