Hugo Marti

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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
  • 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

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personal data
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