Maria Waser

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Maria Waser (born October 15, 1878 in Herzogenbuchsee / Canton of Bern as Maria Krebs ; † January 19, 1939 in Zollikon / Canton of Zurich ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Maria Krebs was the daughter of the country doctor Walther Krebs. After attending a high school in Bern , she studied history and literature at the universities in Lausanne and Bern from 1897 to 1901 . 1902 doctorate it in Bern with a dissertation on late medieval Swiss history for Doctor of Philosophy . A study visit to Italy followed .

In 1905 she married the classical archaeologist Otto Waser , who became a professor at the University of Zurich in 1915. She started a family with him and lived in Zollikon . Both belonged to the editorial team of the art and culture magazine Die Schweiz from 1904 and until 1919 and exerted a significant influence on Swiss literature of the time. B. by promoting young authors such as Albin Zollinger and Robert Walser . The couple traveled to France, England, Germany, Greece (1923) and Italy; they had two sons.

Maria Waser's work consists of novels , stories , biographies and poems , the most successful work was The Story of Anna Waser . In 1938 she received the Literature Prize of the City of Zurich , her second home.

Fonts

  • The politics of Bern, Solothurn and Basel in the years 1466–1468 , Bern 1902 (as Maria Krebs)
  • Henzi and Lessing . A historical-literary study , Bern 1903 (as Dr. Maria Krebs)
  • Follow-up to Schumann’s "Der Rose Pilgerfahrt" , Herzogenbuchsee 1908
  • The story of Anna Waser. A novel from the turn of the 17th century. DVA, Stuttgart 1913 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ); New edition: Classen, Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-7172-0279-0
  • The Jätvreni , Zurich 1917
  • Scala Santa , Zurich 1918
  • Of love and death. Novellas from three centuries , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1920
  • We fools from yesterday. Confessions of a lonely one. Roman, Stuttgart [a. a.] 1922
  • The ghost in Antistitium . Novellas, Leipzig 1923
  • (Ed.): Dr. Walther Krebs , Herzogenbuchsee 1926
  • The sacred way. A commitment to Hellas , Stuttgart 1927
  • Josef Viktor Widmann . From man and poet [,] from God seeker and friend of the world (=  Switzerland in German spiritual life , vol. 46/47). Huber, Frauenfeld 1927
  • Ways to Hodler , Zurich 1927
  • The mission of women , Bern 1928
  • Turn. The novel of an autumn , Stuttgart 1928
  • Land under the stars. The novel of a village , Stuttgart 1930
  • Meeting in the evening. A legacy , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1933 (about the neurologist and neuropathologist Constantin von Monakow ; digitized in the Internet archive, with excerpts from reviews of books by Maria Waser at the end of the book)
  • Lively Swiss , Zurich [a. a.] 1934
  • Symbol of life , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1936
  • The contemplative flower year. Poems to watercolors by Hedwig Krebs. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart [u. a.] 1938
  • From dream to light , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1939
  • From the Zurich family of the Waseren , Zurich 1941
  • Aftertaste. Sketches and short stories. Art contemplation, autobiography. Selected from the estate. With portrait of Maria Waser. Huber, Frauenfeld [u. a.] 1944
  • Poems, letters, prose. Edited by Esther Gamper, Zurich 1946
  • Bernese stories. Wende , Frauenfeld 1959
  • Where I feel pleasure in very big things, Bern [u. a.] 2004
  • [Autobiography], in: Elga Kern (Hrsg.): Leading women in Europe. 16 self-descriptions. Ernst Reinhardt, Munich 1928, pp. 116-137

literature

  • Carl Friedrich Wiegand: Maria Waser , Zurich 1938
  • Maria Waser Pro memoria. Association of Olten Book Friends, Olten 1939
  • Maria Waser in memory. Speeches. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart [u. a.] 1939
  • Freddy Ammann-Meuring: Memories of Maria Waser. In: Neue Schweizer Bibliothek , Vol. 44. Schweizer Druck- und Verlagshaus, Zurich undated [approx. 1940]
  • Maria Waser , Aarau 1940
  • Esther Gamper: Early shadows, early glow. Maria Waser's youth. Huber, Frauenfeld 1945
  • Freddy Ammann-Meuring: inspiration and design in Maria Waser's prose work . In: Schweizer Monatshefte , Issue 10, January 1946, pp. 630–637
  • Georg Küffer: Maria Waser (= Swiss home books, vol. 152). Paul Haupt, Bern 1971
  • Franziska Romana Provini: Maria Waser: The story of Anna Waser, a novel from the turn of the 17th century , dissertation University of Zurich 1990 ( DNB 946390959 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zürcher Illustrierte, 1933: Why I live in Zurich. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Summary of contents under the title Literary Lecture Evenings of the Zürcher Frauenzentrale in: Frauenbestrebungen , Heft 6 (1917), p. 6 ( PDF, 2.3 MB at e-periodica.ch).
  3. ↑ About Maria Waser birth Herzogenbuchsee see Brief on lina-boegli.ch.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Waser, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krebs, Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzogenbuchsee , Canton of Bern
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1939
Place of death Zollikon , Canton of Zurich