Karl Stamm

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Karl Stamm, 2nd from left, on a school trip during his time at the teachers' seminar in Küsnacht. To the left is his later friend Eduard Gubler

Karl Stamm (born March 29, 1890 in Wädenswil , Canton of Zurich ; † March 21, 1919 in Zurich ) was a Swiss poet .

Life

Karl Stamm was born as the sixth of nine children on Hoffnungsweg 7 in Wädenswil. His father came from Schaffhausen and ran a crockery shop. When Karl started school, his mother died, one year later Karl's favorite brother.

These deaths overshadowed Karl's childhood and later found expression in his works. Stamm's drawing and literary talent showed early on. From 1906 he completed a teacher training at the teachers seminar in Küsnacht , where he met the later painter Eduard Gubler . From 1910 to 1914 he worked as a primary school teacher in Lipperschwändi at Bauma and from 1914 in Zurich.

After the outbreak of World War I , Stamm was drafted as a soldier for active service at the Swiss border . His initial patriotic enthusiasm later gave way to deep sympathy for the suffering of the warring parties. Stamm was discharged from military service in 1917 after suffering a nervous breakdown and being in hospital for long periods. He died of the Spanish flu in 1919 .

Karl Stamm's literary work consists practically only of poetry . His earlier poems are predominantly epigonal and conventional in character; many of the later ones are influenced by the expressionist pathos of humanity .

Works

  • The Song of Songs. Lyric poems . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1913
  • From the knapsack (together with Marcel Brom and Paul H. Burkhard ). Orell Füssli, Zurich 1915
  • The children in the land of milk and honey . Verses on watercolors by Hans Witzig . Stehli, Zurich 1917
  • The awakening of the heart . Poems. Rascher, Zurich 1919
  • Seals . Complete edition, with a biographical afterword, ed. by Eduard Gubler. 2 volumes. Rascher, Zurich 1920
  • Letters from Karl Stamm . Collected and introduced by Eduard Gubler. Rascher, Zurich 1931

literature

  • Karl Kuprecht: The poet Karl Stamm in his Küsnacht seminar time ; in: Küsnachter Jahresblätter 1974, pp. 54–65
  • Paul Müller: Karl Stamm's poetry . Dissertation Zurich 1922
  • And love is the name of your poetry. Karl Stamm in memory . Tschudy (Der Bogen 26), St. Gallen 1952
  • Eduard Gubler: Karl Stamm . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume II . 34th year 1957, pp. 353–368 ( PDF )
  • Karl Stamm , in: Helvetic profiles. 47 writers from German-speaking Switzerland since 1800 . Edited by the Zurich Seminar for Literary Criticism with Werner Weber . Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1981, pp. 208–214

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personal data
SURNAME Stamm, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wädenswil , Canton of Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1919
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland