Manfred Zuefle

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Manfred Züfle (born June 30, 1936 in Baar , Canton Zug , Switzerland ; † March 29, 2007 in Zurich ) was a Swiss publicist and writer .

Life

Züfle was born and raised in the canton of Zug . After studying in Zurich, Tübingen, Nottingham, London and Aix-en-Provence, he became an assistant to Emil Staiger in Zurich. He received his doctorate in 1967. phil. I with a dissertation on the language of Hegel .

His teaching activities initially included German for guest workers at the trade school in the city of Zurich , later he was a German and philosophy teacher at the Zurich secondary schools, the daughter's school and the cantonal school . He also gave courses at adult education centers and gave lectures at the universities of Friborg , Bern and Cochabamba (Bolivia).

In the summer of 1982 he left school with the title of professor at the Zurich Cantonal School. Züfle was later still a learning companion at the higher technical school for socio-cultural animation (HFSSKA). Essentially, however, he had been a freelance writer and publicist since 1982 and a member of the Olten group , which he also chaired from 1991 to 1995. Since 1982 he has published several plays, novels, short stories, volumes of poetry and collections of essays and has also been active as a journalist in various print media and on the radio (satires for the broadcast Fact Folder by Radio DRS ).

For four years he was a councilor in Dietikon , where he was a member of the business audit committee. His commitment was particularly focused on cultural, school and especially youth policy. In federal politics, Züfle was mainly involved in criticizing the army ( group for a Switzerland without an army ) and in asylum and migration policy. He was a board member of Solidarité sans frontières .

Züfle lived in Zurich. He had been married to Astrid Renggli († 1982) since July 14, 1960 and had two children with her.

After a long, serious illness, Züfle died on the morning of March 29 at the age of 70 in a Zurich hospital.

In his estate (according to the publisher's statement in the obituary of April 2nd) there are four practically completed book manuscripts.

Works

Original editions

  • The Christian on the stage (together with Hans Urs von Balthasar ), Benziger (Offene weg 4/5), Einsiedeln 1967
  • Prose of the world. The language of Hegel (Diss. Phil. 1967), Johannes-Verlag (Horizonte, NR 1), Einsiedeln undated (1968)
  • Theater as a nuisance? (as co-author), Kösel (Münchener Akademieschriften 48), Munich 1969
  • Human wanted, z. B. Jesus. Meditations on post-Christian literature , KBW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1972
  • The gods crouch on the quay. Poems, reflexes and procedures , Agora (Erato-Druck 15), Darmstadt 1977
  • This city there , in: Zeitünder 2. Three volumes of poetry in one (together with Hansjörg Schertenleib and Jürgen Stelling ), Orte, Zurich 1981, ISBN 978-3-85830-015-7
  • Paranoia City or Zurich is everywhere (together with Jürgmeier ), Rowohlt (rororo-Panther 4979), Reinbek near Hamburg 1982
  • The master of the situation? Cantata for choir and voices (for music by Mani Planzer ), Pendo, Zurich 1982
  • The lion in the monastery. Stories from Europe , Pendo, Zurich 1984
  • Astrid. Diary of a grief , Pendo, Zurich 1984
  • Basement stories. Novel of a high-rise building , Pendo, Zurich 1985
  • The vanished story. Another pamphlet about the PC-7 and related items such as the Federal Council, weapons, export and the like , ARW (Working Group for Arms Control and an Arms Export Ban), Basel 1986
  • Train how I love you The piece, the story, documents , Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1989
  • The sham coup. Roman , Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1989, ISBN 978-3-85869-060-9
  • Twilight. Poems , Z-Verlag, Basel 1989, ISBN 978-3-85990-094-3
  • Still have sons, yes. Swiss history - free of minors? (edited by the Fachklasse für Grafik Zürich FG2 1990), Pro Juventute, Zürich 1991, ISBN 978-3-85990-007-3
  • The Breton tower. Essays on power and cultural criticism (ed. By Stefan Howald), Argument, Berlin / Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-88619-257-1
  • Ranft. Erzählung und Erzählung der Erzählungen , NZN (today at TVZ), Zurich 1998, ISBN 978-3-290-20008-4
  • A natural death. Stories and stories (edited by Stefan Howald), Edition 8, Zurich 2003, ISBN 978-3-85990-046-2
  • The strangers. Resistance to Swiss asylum and migration policy. For the anniversary of Solidarité sans Frontières (sosf) (together with Anni Lanz), Edition 8, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-85990-090-5
  • Apocalypse and later. Intermediate spaces , Pano, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-907576-90-8

As editor

  • The Zurich unrest. Analyzes, reports, reports (together with Peter Bichsel and Niklaus Meienberg ), Orte, Zurich 1981, ISBN 978-3-85830-016-4
  • Not with sheep and their own grain. A learning group between school and resistance 1982–1985 (Autonome Lerngruppe ALG), Basel 1988
  • Action - between - spaces. On sociocultural animation and the past of a school , ed. on behalf of the Association of Higher Technical School for Sociocultural Animation, Interact, Lucerne 2004, ISBN 978-3-906413-23-5

Plays

  • Night once and for all , Zurich 1969
  • Word circus , Zurich 1971
  • Monodrama , Zurich 1971
  • Murder Night , Lucerne 1974
  • Yes or no to the bird tower , Solothurn 1975
  • After all, people died in small towns too , Solothurn 1980
  • Robbed , Solothurn 1982
  • The master of the situation , Zurich 1982
  • Hans im Loch , Solothurn 1983
  • The Jogger and the Saint , Lucerne 1984
  • The crows scream differently in autumn , Solothurn 1985

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  1. ↑ No more contemporary obituary by Fredi Lerch in the WOZ of April 5, 2007
  2. ^ Dedicated intellectual obituary by Stefan Howald in Der Bund of April 2, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Züfle, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Baar ZG
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2007
Place of death Zurich