Karl Gautschi

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Karl Gautschi (born June 9, 1939 in Menziken ) is a Swiss satirist.

biography

Gautschi studied German literature and history at the University of Zurich and did his doctorate with Emil Staiger . He was a district teacher in Menziken and lecturer in the history and didactics of history teaching at various schools, for example at the higher educational institution of the canton of Aargau (today the pedagogical college of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland ), at the teaching college of the canton of Aargau and at the Brugg-Windisch School of Economics and inspector at the Solothurn teacher training college and the Solothurn canton school.

Gautschi wrote columns, glosses and satirical short stories for various newspapers and magazines, for example for the NZZ , the Aargauer Tagblatt , the Zürcher Oberländer , the Aargauer Kurier, Meyers Modeblatt, Schweizerzeit and the Aargauer Zeitung . He also created cabaret texts for Elsie Attenhofer and the “Aargauer Troubadours”. In addition to his books with satires, he also wrote works on local history.

Awards

  • Recognition award from Pro Libertate 1981
  • Sponsorship award from the Koch Berner Foundation in 1990
  • Sponsorship award from the Koch Berner Foundation 1996

Works

  • A city like Zurich. Poems. Clou, Egnach 1962
  • Andrew or the United. Treatise. Juris-Verlag, Zurich 1965
  • From the diary of a model aargau. Satires. Baumann, Menziken 1973
  • News from the diary of a model aargau resident. Satires. Baumann, Menziken 1975
  • The Morgenstern rocket. Satires. Sauerländer, Aarau 1979
  • My Dolce Vita course. Satires. Baumann, Menziken 1979
  • The bad night boys. Satires. Swiss authors, Schaffhausen 1982
  • Of knights, spirits and hidden treasures. Collection of legends. Baumann, Menziken 1982.
  • Beinwil am See. Local history. Baumann, Menziken 1985
  • Between Ürke and Hallwilersee - the Kulm district. Local lore. AT-Verlag, Aarau 1986
  • The emptier of the hall. Satires. Menzach, Menziken 1988
  • For lovers in a quiet location. Satires. Menzach, Menziken 1992
  • VAT included. Satires. Menzach, Menziken 1995
  • The tunnel at the end of the light. Satires. Menzach, Menziken 1998
  • The tin avalanche dogs. Satires. Menzach, Menziken 2001
  • The stone on the hot drop. Satires. Menzach, Menziken 2005
  • From everyday life and other accidents. Satires. Menzach, Menziken 2009
  • Memoirs of an imperfect pattern cloister. Satires. Menzach, Menziken 2012