Karl Grunder

Karl Grunder (born November 20, 1880 in Arni BE ; † January 5, 1963 in Bern ) was a Swiss dialect author .

Life

Karl Grunder graduated from the Hofwil teacher training college and worked as a teacher in the hamlet of Lütiwil near Arni, then in Grosshöchstetten and from 1917 to 1950 at the Pestalozzi School in Bern.

With his numerous Bernese theater plays and lieder, he is one of the best-known theater authors in Switzerland who wrote in dialect. His three volumes of short stories were reissued in the early 1990s. The Hammegg-Chilbi takes place every year in his place of birth in his honor .

Awards

• 1940 Honorary gift from the city of Bern
• 1946 Complete Works Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation

Works

Volumes of prose

• Trösteli un angeri Bärndütsch story . Benteli, Bümpliz 1924; Emmentaler Druck, Langnau 1990
• Hammegg-Lüt . Stories. Benteli, Bümpliz 1931; Emmentaler Druck, Langnau 1991
• Gottiwyl. Vo mene Dörfli u sine Lüte . Francke, Bern 1941; Emmentaler Druck, Langnau 1992

Plays

• The blacksmith from Höchstette . Popular tragedy in 5 acts. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1913; New version ibid. 1935
• D 'water fir . Dialect in 6 pictures from the mobilization time 1914. Künzi-Locher, Bern o. J.
• D 'Wybermühli . Folk song game in 3 pictures. Set to music by Walter Simon Huber. Künzi-Locher, Bern undated
• Home song . Dramatic folk song game. Muntwyler, Thun o. J.
• 'S Vreneli on Lake Thun . Folk song game in 2 scenes. Künzi-Locher, Bern undated; New version 1949
• Hohwacht . Local folk piece in 4 acts. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1921
• D 'floor sickness . Berndeutscher Schwank in 1 act. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1921
• Ds Wätterloch. Pictures and events from the mobilization cell from 1914 . Benteli, Bümpliz 1928
• The Ruetehof . Berndeutsches Volksstück in 4 acts. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1929
• The gusset . It luschtigs Mundartstück i 2 Ufzug. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1930
• The Rutenhof . Volksoper in 3 acts and 1 prelude (with Johannes Haeberli). Music by Hans Adolf Peter. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1931
• I the Gnepfi . Schwank in the Bernese dialect in 3 acts. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1933
• E angry Geischt . Dialect in 4 scenes. New version. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1935
• D 'Waldmarch . Folk piece in 4 acts. Künzi-Locher, Bern 1935; New version 1946
• D 'Ufrichti . It dialect from the Gägewart in 4 acts. Francke (Heimatschutz-Theater 113), Bern 1938
• Bärewirt's daughter . Historical dialect piece in 5 acts. Bern 1942; New version: Sauerländer, Aarau 1960
• En Abesitz . Bern German folk song scene. Francke, Bern 1943
• D 'film heroes . It serene dialect in one act. Francke (Heimatschutz-Theater 130), Bern 1945
• D 'Wyßeburgere . Dialect in 4 acts. Francke (Heimatschutz-Theater 161), Bern 1960

literature

• Hans-Peter Burla: Karl Grunder . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 759 f.
• Bernhard Sowinski: Lexicon of German-speaking dialect authors . Olms, Hildesheim 1997, ISBN 3-487-10381-8 .
• Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Grunder, Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• † Karl Grunder. [Memorial in the series:] Schwyzerlüt. Zytschrift for üses Schwyzerdütsch 25, 1963.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Grunder in the catalog of the German National Library