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Joseph Kopf (born October 8, 1929 in St. Gallen as Hermann Joseph Kopf ; † August 24, 1979 there ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Joseph Kopf completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and then worked as an employee at a bank in Bregenz . He then stayed for four years in Vienna , where he was a friend and collaborator of the painter Ernst Fuchs . Further stays abroad took him to Italy , Spain and Israel , where he spent four years. At the end of the 1960s he returned to St. Gallen, where he lived as a freelance writer.

Joseph Kopf's literary work consists mainly of poetry ; his later works were mostly published in collaboration with visual artists . In 1973 he was awarded the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg .

Works

under the name Hermann Kopf
  • Poems . Eirene-Verlag, St. Gallen 1954.
  • Tobias Klein. Novella . Eirene-Verlag, Küsnacht / ZH 1957.
under the name Hermann Joseph Kopf
  • Shot through with blue starlight. Poems . Tschudy-Verlag, St. Gallen 1963.
under the name Joseph Kopf
  • Songs from gray gardens . Eirene-Verlag, St. Gallen 1955.
  • Obituary for stranded fish. Poems . Propstei Verlag, St. Gerold / Vlbg. 1971.
  • Under the sign of the blue dog. Graphics and poetry collection . Ribaux bookstore, St. Gallen 1975.
  • Open to the cold star wind . Zollikofer Verlag, St. Gallen 1977, ISBN 3-85993-011-7 .
  • Poems 1978/79 . Zollikofer Verlag, St. Gallen 1979.
  • Paul Good (Ed.): A dark green starvation cloth the world. For the 10th year of death of the St. Gallen poet . Galerie Art, Düsseldorf 1989 (in two not identical editions).
  • The tired smile in the elder tree . Pendo-Verlag, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85842-167-7 .
  • Time of blue shadows. Poems . Alpha-Press, Sulzbach 2005.
  • Collected poems . Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 1992.
  1. Just a movement of light. 1952-1963 . 1992, ISBN 3-89086-891-6 .
  2. The opened snow sheet. 1967-1979 . 1992, ISBN 3-89086-892-4 .
  • Language wounded . (= Poetry paperback; 3). Rimbaud-Verlag, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89086-790-1 .

literature

  • Paul Good (Ed.): A swan song with speechless bright animals. Joseph Kopf 1929–1979 . Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-89086-834-7 .
  • Cornel Dora (ed.): A beggar's leprosy . Cantonal Library, St. Gallen 2002, ISBN 3-906794-01-6 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Cantonal Library of St. Gallen , January 17 to February 21, 2003).

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personal data
SURNAME Head, Hermann Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Head, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1979
Place of death St. Gallen