Karl Schölly

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Karl Schölly (born April 12, 1902 in St. Gallen , † April 8, 1987 in St. Gallen) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Karl Schölly was the son of a businessman . After elementary school he completed a commercial apprenticeship in a hardware store and then carried out various activities. From 1943 until his retirement in 1967 he worked as a civil servant in the St. Gallen canton administration . In addition, Schölly created an extensive literary work that was strongly influenced in style and thinking by the author's adolescent reading of Goethe . Schölly's main works, the novels Neuweimar and Der Bund von St. Martin are dreamlike utopian depictions of a revived classical Weimar and an idealistic circle of friends. - The extensive, mostly unprinted estate of Karl Schölly is kept in the St. Gallen canton library in Vadiana .

Works

  • Neuweimar . St. Gallen 1938
  • Contemplative stories . St. Gallen 1940
  • The League of St. Martin . Bern 1941
  • Rest on the run . Bern 1942
  • The clod . Zurich 1944
  • The chosen one . St. Gallen 1945
  • The Eternal Guardian . St. Gallen 1946
  • The bridge . St. Gallen 1950
  • The living space . St. Gallen 1951
  • The work praises the master . St. Gallen 1953
  • The betrayed bread . St. Gallen 1954
  • Stick and star . St. Gallen 1960
  • The test . St. Gallen 1961
  • Poems . St. Gallen 1963
  • The castle . St. Gallen 1969
  • Visit to Leuchtenberg . St. Gallen 1972
  • Picture rooms . Frauenfeld 1977
  • Eighty-five puzzles . St. Gallen 1987
  • Appearance and fate . St. Gallen 1992

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SURNAME Schölly, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1987
Place of death St. Gallen