Hans Rudolf Hilty

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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.
  • Border crossings. Literature from Switzerland 1933–45. A reader. Unionsverlag, Zurich 1981.

As translator

literature

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personal data
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