Lilli Haller

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Lilli Haller, writer
Lilli Haller

Lilli Haller (born on 3. December 1874 as Elisabeth Gertrud Haller in Kandergrund , died on 20th April 1935 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

The pastor's daughter , who comes from the Bernese Oberland , went to Russia after completing her training as a private teacher, where she spent twelve years. She interrupted her stay in Russia to study German in Bern , which she completed in 1906, and then taught at a girls' high school in Yalta in the Crimea . In 1917 she fled the October Revolution and returned to Switzerland via Singapore . There she taught at the secondary school for girls in Bern and arranged Russian translations for the federal administration. From 1920 she lived in Zollikon near Zurich as a freelance writer.

Works and awards

Haller wrote stories and biographies. She was honored with an honorary gift from the Swiss Schiller Foundation .

  • Jeremias Gotthelf. Studies in narrative technique. (Dissertation, Bern 1906)
  • The Ms. Major (Bern Novella, 1913)
  • In the deepest Russian province (novellas, 1913)
  • The fairy tale of the letters (1918)
  • The murder in the village. Story from inner-Russian provinces (1918)
  • Eccentricities (novella, 1919)
  • The stage (novel, 1923)
  • Julie Bondeli (monograph, 1924)
  • Landammann Zellweger (1926)
  • Mrs. Agathen's summer house. A silent story (1930)
  • Poems (1935)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zürcher Illustrierte, 1933: Why I live in Zurich. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Haller, Lilli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haller, Elisabeth Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Kandergrund
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1935
Place of death Zollikon