Johannes Jegerlehner

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Johannes Jegerlehner (born April 9, 1871 in Thun ; † March 17, 1937 in Bern ; legal resident in Walkringen ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Johannes Jegerlehner was the son of a prison guard who worked at Thun Castle . After attending the municipal grammar school in Bern, he completed an apprenticeship as a teacher in Hofwil at the «Schulmeisterschule» founded by Carl August Zeller . As such, he taught in Lyss and as a history teacher in Hofwil for a year. Later, the municipal high school in Bern appointed him to teach German in its Real and Commercial Department.

Johannes Jegerlehner then began studying at the University of Bern , which he continued in Florence and Venice . After passing high school and doctoral exams, he switched to geography and published a paper on the snow line in the Valais Alps .

Johannes Jegerlehner had spent most of his holidays in the Valais for twenty years and studied the customs and habits of the population, which he found in the book Das Val d'Anniviers (Eivischtal) , published in 1904, along with a foray into the Val d'Herens (Evolena). Guide to landscape, history, people, and forecast a Valais mountain valley, describing .

With his collections of fairy tales and legends , stories and novels from the Swiss mountains, especially playing in Valais and the Bernese Oberland , Jegerlehner also attracted a lot of attention outside of Switzerland. Several of his works, some of which were published by German publishers, were illustrated by his son Hans Jegerlehner and saw several editions. During the First World War, Jegerlehner also wrote patriotic-militaristic writings.

Because of his poor health, Johannes Jegerlehner had to give up his school service early and lived with his family in Grindelwald since 1928 . His wife was Emma, ​​née Schreiber.

Johannes Jegerlehner was a member of the Federation of Freemasons , his Lodge Zur Hope is based in Bern and wrote for Die Berner Woche in words and pictures: a sheet for local art and art . For twenty years he was the conductor of the Uebeschichörler , who cultivated the upscale folk songs.

Johannes Jegerlehner died in the Viktoriaspital in Bern .

meaning

Otto von Greyerz expressed the conviction in the Biographical Lexicon of Deceased Swiss (1947) that Johannes Jegerlehner would live on as the “Bernese representative of Swiss Alpine poetry, as it has been cultivated by Zahn , Heer , Lienert , Bosshart , Federer and Renker ” . Although a translation into English ( Alp legends, 1926) appeared during Jegerlehner's lifetime , its popularity waned sharply in the second half of the 20th century, and most of the works, with the exception of the Walliser Sagen collection (reprinted in 1989), were published in the 1950s Years ago. They share the fate of a large part of the aforementioned Swiss Alpine literature, the nature-romantic character of which could no longer find broad acceptance.

Works (selection)

  • The Val d'Anniviers (Eivisch Valley). Along with a foray into the Val d'Herens (Evolena). Guide through the landscape, history, people and legends of a Valais high valley , 1904
  • What the herdsmen tell. Fairy tales and legends from Valais , 1907
  • At the herdsmen's hearth fire. New fairy tales and legends from Valais , 1908
  • (together with Samuel Singer :) Legends and fairy tales from Upper Valais. Collected from the vernacular, 1913
  • Marignano. A short story , 1911
  • On the glacier streams. Stories , 1911
  • Petronella. Roman aus dem Hochgebirge , 1912 ( filmed as The Secret of the Mountains by Hanns Schwarz in 1927 )
  • Hohlicht. A Swiss Soldier's Story , 1914
  • Swiss border guard , 1915
  • Blümlisalp. Folk tales from the Valais mountains , 1917
  • The abandoned village. Two stories from the Valais , 1917
  • The Schlossberger. Story of a Youth , 1920
  • The Glacier Giant , 1932
  • The Rottal Lords , novel, 1934
  • Das Haus in der Wilde , story, 1936

filming

His novel Evas Töchter was filmed in 1928 by Karel Lamač of the same name .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Johannes Jegerlehner  - Sources and full texts

Notes and sources

  1. ↑ In the Nekrolog 1936–1970, in contrast to most reference works, Kürschner's German Literature Calendar names Grindelwald, Jegerlehner's last place of residence.
  2. ^ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon , revised and expanded new edition of the edition from 1932, Munich 2003, 951 pages, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3 .
  3. ↑ Daniel Anker: From the life of a mountain pastor . In: bergliteratur.ch . January 5, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ Article Johannes Jegerlehner in: Biographical Lexicon of deceased Swiss, Vol. 1 (1947).
  5. ↑ “What the herdsmen tell” (1907) and “Am Herdfeuer der Sennen” (1908), published in 1959 under the title “Walliser Sagen”, reprinted in 1989.
personal data
SURNAME Jegerlehner, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuna
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1937
Place of death Bern or Grindelwald