Herbert Meier (Author)

Herbert Meier (born August 29, 1928 in Solothurn ; † September 21, 2018 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss writer and translator .

Life

Herbert Meier studied literature , art history and philosophy at the universities in Basel , Vienna and Freiburg im Üechtland. At the University of Freiburg he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1954 with a thesis on the dramas by Ernst Barlach and then worked as a teacher and lecturer in Paris and Poitiers . After returning to Switzerland, he trained to be an actor in Basel and worked as a dramaturge and actor at the theater in Biel . From 1955 he worked as a freelance writer in Zurich . From 1977 to 1982 Meier was chief dramaturge at the Zürcher Schauspielhaus; From 1994 to 1998 he hosted the show Sternstunde Philosophie on Swiss television .

Herbert Meier was primarily a playwright; however, he also wrote novels , poems and essays . An important part of his work are numerous translations of both classical and modern pieces, mainly from French.

He was a member of the German-speaking Swiss PEN Center and the Association of Authors of Switzerland . Meier died a few weeks after his 90th birthday in Zollikon ZH.

Works

• Ejiawanoko , HR Stauffacher Verlag, Zurich 1953 (together with Hermann Eggmann)
• The barque from Gawdos , HR Stauffacher Verlag, Zurich 1954
• Barlach's dramas , Nuremberg 1954
• Poems and fairy tales , Zurich 1954
• Herodias is still dancing , Zurich 1956
• Siebengestirn , Arche Verlag , Zurich 1956
• To the unknown God , Zurich 1956
• Jonas and the Nerz , Zurich 1958 and S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt 1962
• End of September , Benziger Verlag , Einsiedeln 1959
• The hidden God , Nuremberg 1963
• Relationships , Benziger Verlag, Einsiedeln 1963
• Scorpions , Benziger Verlag, Einsiedeln 1964
• Living with the language , Nuremberg 1965 (together with Heimito von Doderer and Josef Mühlberger )
• Kaiser Jovian , Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe 1966
• The new person is neither on the right nor on the left, he walks , Zurich 1969
• Sequences , Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1969
• Booties , Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1970
• Pastoral history , Zurich 1971
• Where are you going now? , Zurich 1971
• Anatomical stories , Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1973
• Von der Kultur , Zurich 1973
• Stauffer-Bern , Frauenfeld 1975
• Bräker , Zurich 1978
• Ophelia , Kassel 1983
• The happy scientists , Frankfurt am Main 1984
• Life is a dream , Frankfurt am Main 1987
• Mythspiel , Munich 1991
• Theater , Munich:
  • 1. Swiss pieces , Piper Verlag, Munich 1993
  • 2. The barque from Gawdos. Jonas and the Mink. Raven games. At Manesse , Piper Verlag , Munich 1993
  • 3. The Divine. Hit the lute. The happy scientists. Live a dream , Piper Verlag, Munich 1993
• About virtues , Vaduz 1994
• Winterball , Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1996
• New beginnings, travels from there , Berlin 1998
• Collected poems , Johannes Verlag , Einsiedeln / Freiburg im Breisgau 2003
• Think of Siena , Xanthippe Verlag, Zurich 2004
• Elisabeth, the ransom , Freiburg im Breisgau 2007
• The hoped for takes its time , Freiburg im Breisgau 2010
• Mirror of the Divine , Freiburg im Breisgau 2016
• Poems for Yvonne , Kranich-Verlag, Zollikon-Zurich 2018.

Libretti

• Emperor Jovian . Opera. Music (1964/66): Rudolf Kelterborn . Premiere: March 4th, 1967 Karlsruhe (State Theater)
• Ophelia . Opera. Music (1982/83): Rudolf Kelterborn. Premiere: 1985 Berlin (Deutsche Oper)

Editing

• Enrique Beck : About Lorca , Basel 1981
• Federico García Lorca , Frankfurt am Main 1986 (together with Pedro Ramírez)

Translations

• Francisco José Alcántara : If everything goes wrong , Einsiedeln 1957 (translated together with Alfredo Bäschlin)
• Luigi Barzini : Beijing - Paris in sixty days , Einsiedeln 1958
• Paul Claudel : The silk shoe , Einsiedeln 2003
• Giuseppe Dessì : The ransom , Olten 1962
• Euripides : Medea , Zurich 1981
• Ben Jonson : Volpone , Basel 1985 (translated together with Yvonne Meier)
• Guy de Larigaudie : The Song of the Islands and the Seas , Basel 1958 (translated with Yvonne Meier)
• Federico García Lorca : tragic comedy of Don Cristóbal and Doña Rosita , Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Andri Peer : Poesias , Disentis / Mustér 1988
• Luigi Pirandello : Finding Yourself , Berlin (Dahlem) 2000 (translated together with Yvonne Meier)
• Charles Ferdinand Ramuz : Aline , Jean-Luc the Persecuted , Samuel Belet , Frauenfeld 1972 (translated together with Yvonne Meier)
• Georges Schehadé : The story of Vasco , Frankfurt am Main 1958

Awards and honors

• 1955: Literature Prize of the City of Bremen
• 1957: Art Prize of the Lions Club Basel
• 1964: Prize for individual works from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 1964: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
• 1964: Willibald Pirckheimer Medal
• 1965: Promotion Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
• 1969: Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
• 1970: Prize from the Welti Foundation for drama
• 1970: Zurich Literature Prize
• 1975: Culture Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
• 1976: Sponsorship award of the Gottfried Keller Prize
• 1986: Writer in residence at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
• 1997: Schiller Prize from the Zürcher Kantonalbank

literature

• Brigitte Marschall: Herbert Meier . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1217 f.

Web links

• Publications by and about Herbert Meier (author) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Herbert Meier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography of Herbert Meier on Felix Bloch Erben, Publishing House for Stage Film and Funk
• Herbert Meier's archive (author) in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
• Entry about Herbert Meier in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roman Bucheli: The writer Herbert Meier died at the age of 90 in Zollikon. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 25, 2018. Retrieved September 25, 2018.