Julian Dillier

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Julian Dillier (born February 26, 1922 in Sursee ; † January 15, 2001 in Basel ) was a Swiss dialect author , theater and radio man. Lyrical work was of particular importance to him .

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Dillier was born in Sursee in 1922 and grew up as the son of the country woman from Obwalden in the town hall of Sarnen . He was a citizen of Sarnen and Kerns . His brother Geri Dillier was also radio play - director and radio - editor .

After visiting the Sarnen College , he worked in Sarnen in the cantonal administration, first as the clerk of the Obwalden interrogation office, then as the clerk of the state chancellery, where he was also the deputy of the land clerk, and finally as the secretary of the Obwalden education department . In addition, he was already working as a journalistic radio employee. In 1969 he left Obwalden and moved to the Basel radio studio as a program editor , where he worked until his retirement in 1987. The way in which the Obwalden government adopted him in 1969 after 26 years in civil service seems to have preoccupied him all his life: “ With a work card - not with a certificate, let alone a word of thanks. "

He is one of the most important modern dialect writers in Obwalden and far beyond. Among other things, he was networked with authors in Switzerland, Austria, Alsace, southern Germany, the Rhineland and Luxembourg. For example, he was president of the Society for Swiss Folk Theater or the Central Switzerland Writers' Association, but also of the International Dialect Institute in Vienna.

Dillier began his literary work with plays for the amateur stage and with radio plays . Over time, however, he found more and more poetry, in which he combined political commitment and subtle inwardness. This can be seen exemplarily in the following short poem: “ Diä« inner Stimm »/ hed very sältä äs Voicaright. "

He not only wrote his versatile literary work in the Obwalden dialect, he also wrote texts in the written language. The prose text of Frau Bartsch is best known here . A number of his poems and political sayings first appeared in the magazine Nebelspalter .

His texts did not always meet with approval. A poem about Nagra that Dillier published after submitting a deed in 1976 gave rise to discussion . With that he wrote against a possible nuclear disposal facility on the Alp Glaubbielen in the municipality of Giswil .

He also promoted other, younger talents in a variety of ways and even published their works in his own Nussbaum Verlag . He founded this together with his wife Emma.

Honors (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Gedankä wo barefoot chemid , 1973
  • So z sägä , 1974
  • Mändschä are mängisch like Gäärtä , 1978 (with an afterword by Dieter Fringeli )
  • Voicing , 1984 (with a foreword by Adrien Finck )
  • Landsgmeindsgred , 1988
  • Mrs. Bartsch , 1986 (new edition 2010)
  • Literally. Gesammelte Gedichte 1970–1998 , 2001 (edited and with an afterword by Christian Schmid )

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quotation from the "Obwaldner Wochenblatt" of September 28, 2001, p. 5.
  2. ↑ From the collection "Stimmrächt" (1984), p. 47. Translation: " The" inner voice "/ very rarely has a right to vote. "
  3. ^ Romano Cuonz : For the courageous word in always good cause ... In: Obwaldner Wochenblatt , March 4, 1982, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Dillier, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dialect author
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Sursee
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2001
Place of death Basel