Heinrich Landolt

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Heinrich Landolt (born December 31, 1943 in Zurich ; full name Robert Heinrich Silvester Landolt ) is a Swiss development worker and writer.

Life

After school and training in Chur, Zurich and Bern, he worked as a journalist and later in advertising. In 1984, after many years of voluntary work at a Swiss children's aid organization, he decided to become professionally involved in development aid. He spent almost a year in 1985 during a famine in northern Sudan for the American aid organization Interaid International , which provided emergency aid in cooperation with the United Nations World Food Program . Then the US relief organization called him to Kenya , where he supervised the work in Kenya, Uganda , Congo (then Zaire) and Chad until 1989 . Then the relief organization called him to its headquarters near Los Angeles . He later switched to the aid organization Mission without Borders , also based in Southern California , where he supported projects in Romania , Albania and the Ukraine . Since his return to Switzerland (2007) he has been working as a freelance writer. Heinrich Landolt lives and writes in Lucerne .

job

author

The first two volumes of the fantasy trilogy “Schlimme Zeiten” have been published in German so far: “Der Erste Mantel” (2014) and “Der Englische Mantel” (2018). Both titles are published by wortweit-Verlag, Vienna.

They are the stories of Jan, a boy who cannot die. His fate forces him to live in a different body each time. The titles interweave meticulously researched historical figures and circumstances with fictional characters. In the first volume Jan fights his way through the brutal world of the Thirty Years' War, where he hires out as a mercenary, finds shelter with an alchemist and finds pigtails, his eternal love. In the second volume he gets to know the ups and downs of the Victorian age: From the slums in London's East End to Queen Victoria and her now largely forgotten companion and advisor, Abdul Karim.

Earlier in the United States, Heinrich Landolt co-authored Lois M. Bass's autobiography, entitled “Forbidden Faith” (2000, Thousand Oaks Publisher). A Romanian translation was published in 2002 as “Credinṱa interzisă” by Editura Agape, Sibiu.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography. In: Heinrich Landolt. Retrieved on May 26, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA: Directory of Foundations. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Landolt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss development worker and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich