Jakob Christoph Heer

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Jakob Christoph Heer, painted by Caspar Ritter

Jakob Christoph Heer (born July 17, 1859 in Töss , † August 20, 1925 in Zurich ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Birthplace of Jakob Christoph Heer at J.-C.-Heer-Strasse 7 in Winterthur-Töss
Memorial stone on the Brühlberg in Winterthur

Jakob Christoph Heer was born as the son of Jakob Christoph Heer and his wife Elisabeth. Leemann was born in Töss. His nephew was Gottlieb Heinrich Heer.

After graduating from high school in Winterthur , Heer obtained a teaching diploma at the Küsnacht seminar in 1879 . From 1879 he worked as a vicar in Glattfelden , from 1882 as a teacher in Oberdürnten . His travelogue Holidays on the Adriatic was published as a book in 1888. In 1892 he took over the position of a features editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . The following year he married Emma Karoline Gossweiler and later (1899–1902) worked for the Stuttgart editorial team of the journal Die Gartenlaube . From 1902 he devoted himself entirely to the profession of a freelance writer .

Heer combined the stylistic devices of the Heimat novel with criticism of modern technology and tourism . As his novel An Heiligen Wassern shows, these reservations are not of a fundamental nature, but aim at moderate tourist development and preservation of nature and the village culture.

JC Heer's best-known novels were filmed twice: The King of Bernina was filmed in a US production in 1929 by Ernst Lubitsch as Eternal Love and in 1957 as the Austrian-Swiss production The King of Bernina with Ernst Lehner as director. On holy waters there was a German feature film in 1932 under Erich Waschneck and in 1960 with the same name by Alfred Weidenmann .

On the Brüelberg in Winterthur there is a memorial stone that the Poschiavo community gave him for his novel The King of Bernina . The stone is precisely aligned with the house where he was born in Töss. (The main character of the novel Markus Paltram is inspired by the Upper Engadine hunter and gunsmith Gian Marchet Colani .)

Another memorial is located near the Berninapassstrasse (approx. 4 km after the end of Pontresina) with a view of the Piz Bernina.

Heer's sister Elisa (1873–1960) ran the “Adler” restaurant in Ermatingen . Many personalities of their time met there.

Trivia

  • Jakob Christoph Heer's childhood sweetheart Ida "Friedli" Steinemann (1859–1876) lived in the miller's house in the Wespi mill . Heer described his relationship with her in the youth novel Joggeli , published in 1902 .

Works (selection)

Inscription on the school house in Zell

Poetry

Stories, short stories, novels

Army and the cover of his homeland novel

Travel literature

Others

  • Memories. 1930.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franziska Meister: Gottlieb Heinrich Heer. Historical encyclopedia of Switzerland, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Elisa Heer. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . Volume 37, 1962, p. 139 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on March 15, 2020]).

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personal data
SURNAME Army, Jakob Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Töss
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1925
Place of death Zurich