Imma Grolimund

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Imma Grolimund (born January 9, 1872 as Emma Grolimund in Rodersdorf ; † March 30, 1944 in Zurich , married Mövius ) was a Swiss writer and teacher .

Life

Emma Grolimund was born as the daughter of the teacher Sigmund Grolimund, who grew up in Grindel , in Rodersdorf in the Black Boys' Country in Solothurn . When Emma was six years old, the family moved to Aarau , where her father started a job as a proofreader at Sauerländer . Emma spent her youth in Aarau and received her training as a teacher at the local seminar . She then worked as a teacher for about ten years, at the Hermetschwil monastery school , in Ennetbaden and at the primary school in Aarau.

Through a newspaper advertisement she entered into an exchange of letters with a young Chilean named Mövius, who lived in Germany and who had acquired the pseudonym Amon Rê and, as an educated businessman, spoke several languages. In order not to face the “man of her dreams” “as an ignorant child”, as Albin Fringeli put it, she gave up her secure job in Aarau and continued her education in languages, art and literary history at universities abroad. Eventually she married in Sawakin in what was then Anglo-Egyptian Sudan with Mövius, who had meanwhile become director of a trading company there.

Only a few months after the marriage, Emma Mövius in Jerusalem , where she was staying for health reasons, received news that her husband had died. She was able to take up a position as a tutor in the palace of the Khedive (viceroy) of Egypt Abbas II in Cairo . After Abbas II was deposed by the British at the beginning of the First World War , Emma Mövius found a new job in Constantinople as a language teacher at the Goldschmidt School , a private grammar school . When this was lifted after the end of the war, she traveled to her brother in Barcelona , who found her a job as a tutor. After two years she traveled to Bern due to illness and after successful treatment decided to stay in Switzerland. She became a teacher at the comprehensive school in the small Aargau village of Uezwil , where she worked for ten years until she retired. Since she had always felt connected to her region of origin, the Schwarzbubenland in the canton of Solothurn , she was still looking for an apartment in Dornach in 1943, shortly before her death , but without success.

Literary work

Emma Mövius-Grolimund published her literary works under the name Imma Grolimund . In the 1938 novel Der Weg zu Amon Rê , she processed her relationship with Mövius. Emil Wiedmer (longtime editor of the Solothurner Zeitung ) welcomed the novel in 1940 in the yearbook Dr Schwarzbueb as "written with the winning certainty of a mature human spirit, experienced, convincing at the same time". The book, which in terms of content avoids "well-worn tracks", moves "with tried and tested means in the unfamiliar". Her second novel The Owl Primer takes place in the canton of Aargau and tells a village story “about guilt and atonement”. This was published in 1953 in a Dutch translation under the title Waariehde wint . In addition to these two main works, she published shorter novellist and cultural-historical works.

Works

  • The way to Amon Rê. Cruise of a love. H. Feuz, Bern 1938.
  • The owl primer. Novel about guilt and atonement. Waldstatt publishing house, Einsiedeln 1942.
  • Imma Grolimund, Grindel . Knapp, [Olten] 2016, ISBN 978-3-906311-21-0 . (Hans Brunner [Hrsg.]: Solothurn classic ). Contains not only fiction and essay texts by Imma Grolimund but also biographical material.

literature

  • R .: [Obituary: Imma Grolimund] . In: Swiss teacher newspaper . tape 48 , issue 15, May 5, 1944, p. 257 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  • Albin Fringeli : Sigmund, Emil and Imma Grolimund . In: Poets and writers from the black boy country . Heimatmuseum Schwarzbubenland Dorneck-Thierstein, Dornach 1956, p. 41-44 .
  • Urs Berger, Imma Grolimund: A Christmas story by Imma Grolimund . In: Biel-Benkemer Dorf-Zytig . Volume 44, No. 495 , December 23, 2016, p. 24–25 ( biel-benken.ch [PDF] Biographical text by Urs Berger and story by Imma Grolimund).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Fringeli Dietrich Mövius , according to the obituary of an unnamed Aargau friend Julio Mövius, printed in the volume from the 2016 Solothurn Classics series .
  2. ↑ Albin Fringeli : Sigmund, Emil and Imma Grolimund . In: Poets and writers from the black boy country . Heimatmuseum Schwarzbubenland Dorneck-Thierstein, Dornach 1956, p. 42 .
  3. ↑ Fringeli writes about the "Egyptian royal court"; that it must have been the Khedive Abbas II., emerges from the obituary of the Aargau friend: "During the First World War the Khediv was deposed as German-friendly by the English ...". In: Imma Grolimund, Grindel . Knapp, [Olten] 2016, ISBN 978-3-906311-21-0 , p. 18. (Hans Brunner [Hrsg.]: Solothurner Klassiker ).
  4. ↑ Albin Fringeli : Sigmund, Emil and Imma Grolimund . In: Poets and writers from the black boy country . Heimatmuseum Schwarzbubenland Dorneck-Thierstein, Dornach 1956, p. 43 .
  5. ↑ Emil Wiedmer: A new Solothurn poet: Imma Grolimund. Quoted from: Imma Grolimund, Grindel . Knapp, [Olten] 2016, ISBN 978-3-906311-21-0 , p. 16. (Hans Brunner [Hrsg.]: Solothurn classics )
  6. ↑ Imma Grolimund: Waar Rande wint . Vert. by J. v. Wattenwyl-de Gruyter. Gottmer, Haarlem / Antwerp 1953. DNB 577742043
  7. ↑ R .: [Obituary: Imma Grolimund] . In: Swiss teacher newspaper . tape 48 , issue 15, May 5, 1944, p. 257 ( e-periodica.ch ).
personal data
SURNAME Grolimund, Imma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grolimund, Emma (maiden name); Mövius, Imma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Rodersdorf
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1944
Place of death Zurich