Max Geilinger

Max Geilinger (born September 30, 1884 in Zurich ; † June 11, 1948 in Saint-Maurice VS ) was a Swiss lawyer and writer .

Life and work

Max Geilinger, son of a Zurich silk merchant, studied law in Kiel, Salzburg and Zurich and graduated in 1908 with a doctorate . From 1917 to 1930 he worked as head of the Zurich passport office. He then lived as a freelance writer in Zurich.

Geilinger was primarily known as a poem writer; with his short dramas, however, he received hardly any attention. At the center of his nature and love poetry were the rose - and his wife, British-born Frances Dalton (1884–1961), with whom he wrote numerous translations of English poetry. After her death, the Max Geilinger Foundation was founded in Zurich to maintain the work and to promote the English-Swiss cultural exchange.

The Geilinger estate with material on the work, letters, pictures, newspaper clippings and files from the Max Geilinger Foundation is in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library .

Works

Poetry

• Black butterflies. A poetic diary . Rascher, Zurich 1910
• The way into the distance . Rascher, Zurich 1919
• The big rhythm . Seldwyla, Zurich 1923
• Rushing fountain . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1925
• Dreamer between flowers . Münster press, Horgen / Leipzig 1928
• Golden rose sonnets . Rascher, Zurich 1932
• Classic spring . Rascher, Zurich 1934
• Wanderlust . Rascher, Zurich 1937
• In memory . Rascher, Zurich 1938
• The forgotten garden . Francke, Bern 1943
• Of the great harmony . Artemis, Zurich 1946
• The most beautiful roses (illustrated by Pia Roshardt ): Hallwag (Orbis pictus 2), Bern 1947
• Recovery . Classen, Zurich 1948

Dramas

• Pagans and heroes. A show in 7 pictures . Volksverlag, Elgg 1937
• The game of Paracelsus . In 3 acts . Rascher, Zurich 1938
• Susskind vom Trimberg, a minstrel. Three acts . Rascher, Zurich 1939
• The weeping rock. A fairy tale from Lake Geneva . Rascher, Zurich 1940
• The way to the Circe. A fantasy game in 6 pictures . Volksverlag, Elgg 1940
• We want Barabbas. A passion play . Volksverlag, Elgg 1940
• The red chapel. A two-act act with a sequel . Volksverlag, Elgg 1941
• Jürgen Wullenwever, Mayor of Lübeck. A play . Volksverlag, Elgg 1942

Others

• Walking days in England . Gutenberg Book Guild , Zurich 1946
• From lyrical poetry. Considerations . Afterword by Traugott Vogel . Rascher, Zurich 1951

Editor / translator

• Ancient Greek poetry. Bakchylides and Pindar based on translations in contemporary abbreviation . Private print, Zurich 1937
• Kleon by Robert Browning . Johannespresse, Zurich 1936
• Chinese poems in quatrains from the T'ang period . Rascher, Zurich 1944
• Minnesang's spring in Switzerland . Rascher, Zurich 1945
• English poetry . Huber, Frauenfeld 1945
• Manhattan and Illinois. American poetry by Walt Whitman and Vachel Lindsay . Bühl, Herrliberg 1947

Work edition

• Alfred A. Häsler (ed.): Max Geilinger - Life and Work , 2 volumes, Zurich 1967
  • Volume 1: Life and Works, Letters, Prose
  • Volume 2: Poems, Translations, Drama

literature

• Reto Caluori: Max Geilinger . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 692.

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Geilinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Geilinger, Max. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
• Short biography from the Swiss Lexicon by Charles Linsmayer
• Estate in the Zurich Central Library