Karl Kloter
Karl Kloter (born September 30, 1911 in Lengnau ; † August 13, 2002 in Lucerne , Catholic , resident in Zurich and Lucerne) was a Swiss writer .
Life
Karl Kloter was born as the son of the hotel concierge Leo Kloter and Ida nee Angst. Kloter completed an apprenticeship as a baker before working as a punch in Zurich from 1939. He represented the Social Democratic Party in the Zurich City Council from 1965 to 1974 .
Karl Kloter, who married Martha Josefina Schürch, born in 1939, died on August 13, 2002 just before the age of 91 in Lucerne. He was the older brother of the National Council member Theodor Kloter .
Funded by Otto Steiger , Carl Seelig , Werner Weber and August E. Hohler , Karl Kloter first published poems, then mainly autobiographical novels in which the social and human problems of workers are thematized. In his novel Salvatrice , published in 1969 , he dealt with the problems of guest workers. In 1999, Karl Kloter was awarded the Jaeckle Treadwell Foundation Prize. Kloter's estate is kept in the Swiss Literary Archives.
Works (selection)
- Fables and Poems, 1949
- Markus: a development novel from our time, 1959
- On both banks: Novelle, 1960
- Do you know Didier? Roman, 1966
- Egon Feldweg: Story, 1978
- Where the fathers were missing: Roman, 1979
- Nothing is okay ...: Poems, 1981
- Martin Konvent: Stories, 1985
- Wrong ways and ways home: prose, poetry, documents, 1995, with bibliography
literature
- Rosmarie Zeller: Kloter, Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Pirmin Meier : "While I stayed down, Karl Kloter 1911", In: Grenzfall Literatur, edited by Joseph Bättig, Stephan Leimgruber, 1993, pp. 224–237, with catalog raisonné
Web links
- Publications by and about Karl Kloter in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Karl Kloter's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Inventory of the estate of Kloter, Karl. in the Swiss Literary Archives
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kloter, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1911 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lengnau |
DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 2002 |
Place of death | Lucerne |