Max Rychner
Max Rychner (born April 8, 1897 in Lichtensteig , Canton St. Gallen , † June 10, 1965 in Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist and writer .
Life
The son of a country doctor studied in Bern and Zurich German , received his doctorate in 1921 and ran from 1922 to 1931, the Zurich journal knowledge and life (since 1926 New Swiss Rundschau ). Rychner lived in Cologne as editor of the Kölnische Zeitung and correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung until 1937 . After two years as head of the arts section at the Bernese Confederation , from 1939 to 1962 he headed the culture section of Tat in Zurich. Under him, their feature pages gained international format after 1945. Rychner is regarded, among other things, as the discoverer Paul Celans , who had early poems by the poet, who was still completely unknown in 1947, printed there and thus made them accessible to a broader German-speaking readership for the first time.
Rychner earned the reputation of one of the most important and influential literary critics in German-speaking countries. In 1955 he received the honorary gift of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft . His method of admiration , based on hermeneutic models, raised formal-aesthetic criteria far above questions of content and meaning.
He was editor and translator ( Paul Valéry ), poet (including Freundeswort , 1941; Die Erste. Ein Epyllion , 1949), novelist and essayist (including On European literature between the two world wars , 1943; Arachne , 1957). On his 65th birthday, a selection of works with a bibliography was published under the title Considered and testified world . He found his final resting place in the Fluntern cemetery .
Works (selection)
- To European literature . Atlantis, Zurich 1943
- Embers and ashes . Manesse, Zurich 1945
- Contemporary literature . Manesse, Zurich 1947
- The first . Manesse, Zurich 1949
- World in the word . Manesse, Zurich 1949
- Spheres of the book world . Manesse, Zurich 1952
- Arachne . Manesse, Zurich 1957
- Answers . Manesse, Zurich 1961
- Considered and witnessed world . Agora, Darmstadt 1962
- Between the middle and the edge . Manesse, Zurich 1964
- Essays on literature . Manesse, Zurich 1966
- Correspondence 1930–1956: Gottfried Benn and Max Rychner . Edited by Gerhard Schuster. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-608-95427-9
- Strings come together with me. Literary essays, reviews, letters . Edited by Roman Bucheli . Wallstein, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89244-300-9
literature
- Roman Bucheli : Rychner, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 309 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Maike Buß: Intellectual self-image and totalitarianism. Denis de Rougemont and Max Rychner - two Europeans from the interwar period . Lang, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-631-53990-8 .
- Werner Siebert: Max Rychner, bibliography . Francke, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-317-01572-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Rychner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Strings come together for me , book review by Guido Graf (Deutschlandfunk 1999)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guido Graf: The threads come together for me. Deutschlandfunk , 1999, accessed on July 28, 2014 .
- ↑ kulturkreis.eu: 1953-1989 sponsorship awards, honorary gifts ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed April 1, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rychner, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lichtensteig |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1965 |
| Place of death | Zurich |