Hans Rudolf Hilty
Hans Rudolf Hilty (born December 5, 1925 in St. Gallen ; † July 5, 1994 in Jona ) was a Swiss writer and publicist .
Life
Hans Rudolf Hilty grew up in St. Gallen and attended schools there until he graduated from high school . Then he studied German and history at the Universities of Basel and Zurich, graduating with a Dr. phil. I. He was active in the Zofingia Zurich and was charged in 1949/50 in the central committee of the general association as central actuary (editor of the Centralblatt ). He was the older brother of the linguist Gerold Hilty .
After graduating, he began to work as a freelance writer, translator and publicist. In 1951 he founded his own magazine for modern poetry, hortulus . From 1959 to 1964 he published the Quadrat books in the Tschudy Verlag in St. Gallen . Then he moved to Zurich and worked there until 1972 as a feature editor of the (social democratic) newspaper Volksrecht , later of the Zürcher AZ .
From 1972 he was working as a freelancer again. In 1982 he moved to Jona . In 1986 his hometown St. Gallen honored him with the culture award . After a long illness he died in 1994.
Works
Poetry
- Night singing. Ten poems. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1948.
- Burned into the snow. Lyric texts. With four original three-color woodcuts by Marianne Guggenheim. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1956.
- That the earth is easy for us. Lyric Suite. Borgis, Sins 1959.
- To experience. Lyric texts 1954–1968. Candelabra, Bern 1969.
- Praise the black sheep. Poems. Places, Wolfhalden 2003, ISBN 978-3-85830-123-9 .
prose
- The renunciation. Three variations on a theme. Good writings, Bern 1951.
- The Indian red booklet. Association of Olten Book Friends (= VOB 63), Olten 1954.
- Parsifal. Novel. Kindler, Munich 1962.
- Conjectures about Ursula. Candelabra, Bern 1970.
- Cracks. Narrative research. Bubenberg, Bern 1977.
- Brother Klaus or two men in the woods. A narrative research. Rentsch, Zurich 1981, ISBN 978-3-7249-0531-8 .
- Exacerbations. Limmat, Zurich 1984.
Plays
- The little dance of death. Game in seven pictures. Eirene, St. Gallen 1953.
- The murderess and her planet. One act. Clou, Egnach 1964.
- A race. Scenario.
Varia
- Letter to a German student. Separatum from the Centralblatt, Zurich 1947.
- Carl Hilty. Haupt (Schweizer Heimatbücher 27), Bern 1949.
- St. Gallen. Haupt (Schweizer Heimatbücher 35), Bern 1950.
- Vadian. An appreciation. Written on behalf of the Mayor of the City of St. Gallen on the 400th anniversary of Vadian's death on April 6, 1951. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1951.
- Carl Hilty and the spiritual legacy of the Goethe era. A study on the intellectual history of Switzerland in the 19th century. (With bibliography). Tschudy (= Diss. Phil. Zurich), St. Gallen 1953.
- Friedrich Schiller. Outline of his life, outline of his work. Good writings (GS 147), Bern 1955.
- Jeanne d'Arc with Schiller and Anouilh. Sketches for an intellectual history of modern drama. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1960.
- Symbol and example. Thoughts about linguistic and social structural change. Hansen & Hansen (opening credits 2), Itzehoe-Vosskate 1966.
As editor
- Ensemble. A Swiss contribution to contemporary poetry. (With Peter Lehner and Andri Peer .) Benteli, Bern 1958.
- Zurich, for example. Signature of a city in today's lyrical texts. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1959.
- Modern Swiss theater. One-act plays and scenes. (With Max Schmid .) Clou, Egnach 1964.
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Border crossings. Literature from Switzerland 1933–45. A reader. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1981.
- New edition: Unionsverlag, Zurich 1996, ISBN 978-3-293-00027-8 .
As translator
- Joachim Vadian : Cockfight or hens in the playpen. A renaissance farce. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1959.
- Yves Velan : Me . Roman (French Je , Paris 1959), Kindler, Munich 1963.
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Jean-Pierre Monnier : The brightness of the night. Roman , Huber, Frauenfeld 1967.
- New edition: Orte, Wolfhalden 2004, ISBN 978-3-85830-124-6 .
literature
- Tobias Hoffmann-Allenspach: Hans Rudolf Hilty . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 842 f.
Web links
- Publications by and about Hans Rudolf Hilty in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Hans Rudolf Hilty's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Hans Rudolf Hilty in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franziska Meister: Hilty, Hans Rudolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Portrait of Hans Rudolf Hilty in the literary magazine orte
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hilty, Hans Rudolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer and publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1994 |
Place of death | Jonah |