Jakob Buehrer

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Jakob Bührer (born November 8, 1882 in Zurich , † November 22, 1975 in Locarno ) was a Swiss journalist and writer.

Life

Jakob Bührer spent his childhood in Schaffhausen in poor conditions. He completed a commercial apprenticeship and then made a name for himself as an editor of various smaller newspapers with aggressive social and cultural criticism.

After the success of his book Aus Konrad Sulzers Tagebuch , he worked as a freelance writer for several years from 1917 , composing cabaret and socially critical literary texts. His accession to the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and his advocacy of the party's goals under the influence of the army deployment against demonstrators in Geneva in 1932 cost him his job as an editorial writer for the Basler National-Zeitung and his economic basis. Daily journalistic work for the party and trade union press, including as editor and translator for the Gutenberg Book Guild , formed the basis of his income until the end of his life.

His second wife was the Swiss writer and feminist Elisabeth Thommen , whose liaison with the writer Hans Morgenthaler caused turmoil. In 1916 Victor Surbek painted a portrait of Bührer.

The unfinished trilogy Im Roten Feld , which was first published in 1938, 1944 and 1951, can be regarded as Bührer's main literary work . It is an attempt at a literary Swiss history during the time of the French Revolution .

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The focus of his literary work and his numerous novels was the portrayal of individual social fates and their connection with social processes (such as the economic crisis of the 1930s) in Switzerland.

'He stared at the urn. There was the strangely shaped thing. Everyone put his conviction there, his belief in the good, in the just! From this vessel came out what was good and what was just in this land! So the good, the justice, was not something that was simply there, but rather it oozed from the minds, hearts and wills of the people of this country? "

- Jakob Bührer: The Anarchist, 1918

Poetry

  • One thing is necessary . Sonnets, 1965

prose

  • Little sketches by little people . Bern, 1910
  • From Konrad Sulzer's diary . Autobiographical novel. Bern, 1917
  • Set off! Narrative. Bern, 1921
  • Kilian . Utopian novel. Leipzig / Zurich, 1922
  • You can't ... Roman. Zurich, 1932
  • Storm over Stiflis . Novel. Zurich, 1934
  • The last word . Novel. Zurich, 1935
  • In the red field . Trilogy. Zurich, 1938/1944/1951
  • Yolanda's legacy . Novel. Zurich, 1957

drama

  • People of shepherds . Dialect satire. Pfauentheater (theater of the Zurich City Theater) Zurich, 1918
  • A new board game . Play. Schauspielhaus Zurich, 1927
  • Galileo Galilei . Dramatic poetry in five acts. Zurich, 1933

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1916, portrait, Jakob Bührer


personal data
SURNAME Buehrer, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1975
Place of death Locarno