Hugo Marti
Hugo Marti (born December 23, 1893 in Basel , † April 20, 1937 in Davos ) was a Swiss German studies scholar , writer and features editor .
Life
Hugo Marti was the son of the director of the Swiss National Bank in Bern, founded in 1906, who died early .
Marti grew up in Basel, Liestal and Bern . He attended grammar school in Bern and studied law at the University of Bern , then from 1914 Germanic and Romance philology . He received his doctorate in these sciences in 1921 at the University of Bern with a dissertation on the language of the Swiss civil code .
The studies were interrupted by study visits to northern Germany and as a tutor he came to Romania and later to Norway where he met his wife from Oslo . Marti traveled to many countries in Europe and thereby acquired knowledge of the people and their literature.
He first worked on the Pestalozzi calendar , then from 1922 as a feature editor for the Bern daily newspaper Der Bund , for which he had worked for a short time the previous year. There he made a name for himself as a satirist under the pseudonym Bepp , which only became known after his death, and as a sponsor of young writers such as Friedrich Glauser or Kurt Guggenheim . In Bern he formed a counterweight to the conservative “literary pope” Otto von Gruyères . His last book was about Rudolf von Tavel .
Hugo Marti died at the age of 44 of the consequences of his tuberculosis disease, which broke out in 1928 , the treatment of which he processed in his Davos Hours . He found his final resting place in the Schlosshaldenfriedhof in Bern.
Most of his estate is in the Swiss Literary Archives, a small part in the Liestal Poet and City Museum .
Works
- Contributions to a comparative dictionary of German legal language, based on the Swiss Civil Code . Paul Haupt, Bern 1921
- Word register for the Swiss Civil Code . Haupt, Bern 1922
- The house on the lagoon. Narration . Rhein-Verlag, Basel 1922
- The little church of the seven wonders of legends. Rhine, Basel 1922
- Balder. Seven nights . Rhine, Basel 1923
- The chalice. Poems . Rhine, Basel 1925
- Annual ring. A poetic novel full of northern magic . Rhine, Basel 1925
- Romanian interlude. Book of memory . Francke, Bern 1926
- Romanian girls. Two novels . Francke, Bern 1928
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Note sheets from Bepp . Francke, Bern 1928 (second part 19 ??; third part 1942)
- New edition v. Self-published by Elsa Marti: Bern 1969
- The hostel by the river. A game (ill. By Fritz Pauli ). Benteli, Bümpliz 1932
- The University of Bern . Lindner, Küssnacht am Rigi 1932
- The centenary of the University of Bern. A report . Haupt, Bern 1934
- Davos Book of Hours . Francke, Bern 1935
- Rudolf von Tavel . Life and work . Francke, Bern 1935; 4. A. Cosmos, Muri 1984, ISBN 3-305-00072-4
- A childhood . Francke, Bern 1936; Good writings (Volume 323), Bern 1968
- The fair in the little town . Good writings (Volume 187), Bern / Basel 1937
Posthumously published:
- In the sign of friendship (with Lucian Blaga ). Criterion, Bucharest 1985
- The house on the lagoon. Davos Book of Hours . New ed. v. Charles Linsmayer . Ex libris, Zurich 1981
- "The days are like a dream to me". The narrative work . Ed. V. Charles Linsmayer. Huber, Frauenfeld 2004, ISBN 3-7193-1325-5
literature
- HB: Nekrolog for Hugo Marti . In: The Bern Week in Words and Images , Vol. 27, 1937, p. 430. ( e-periodica )
- Carl Günther: Hugo Marti. Man and poet . Francke, Bern 1938
- Tobias Hoffmann-Allenspach: Hugo Marti . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1188.
- Charles Linsmayer: Hugo Marti . Epilogue to Das Haus am Haff. Davos Book of Hours . Ex Libris, Zurich 1981; Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1990, pp. 207-247
- Charles Linsmayer: "The days are like a dream to me". Illustrated biography as an afterword in the reader of the same name, Frauenfeld 2004, pages 483-584
Web links
- Publications by and about Hugo Marti in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Hugo Marti's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Estate inventory in the Swiss Literary Archives
- Literature by and about Hugo Marti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Hugo Marti in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Charles Linsmayer: Marti, Hugo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Texts on Hugo Marti by Charles Linsmayer
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Marti, Hugo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bepp (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss German studies specialist, writer and features editor |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1893 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1937 |
Place of death | Davos |