Meinrad Lienert

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Meinrad Lienert around 1906
Memorial fountain in front of the Einsiedeln schoolhouse: Hei wili, hei

Meinrad Alois Lienert (born May 21, 1865 in Einsiedeln , † December 26, 1933 in Küsnacht ) was a Swiss dialect and native poet .

Life

Lienert was born in Einsiedeln in Schwyz, the third child of Konrad Lienert, a notary, and Marianne Lienert-Ochsner. After primary school, he attended high school at the monastery school , which he dropped out early. In 1884, for the sake of his father, Lienert began studying law at the University of Lausanne , which he continued in Heidelberg and Munich and completed in Zurich .

He then worked as a notary and as an editor at Einsiedler Anzeiger in his birthplace. At the age of 28 he married Marie Gyr, daughter of the "Pfauen" hotelier - at that time the first house on the square. In 1899 the couple moved to the more liberal Zurich , where Lienert headed the editorial team of the newspaper Die Limmat for a short time . From 1900 he was a freelance writer and wrote not only novels and plays, but also nature-loving poetry in the Schwyz dialect . He was strongly promoted by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and by Carl Spitteler . In 1919 he moved again for two years as editor of the Zurich Volkszeitung in journalism . From 1916 until his death, Lienert was also a member of the executive committee of the Swiss Idiotikon , for which he also campaigned in public.

For financial reasons, Lienert had to sell the house on Zürichberg in 1923 and move back to Einsiedeln. To be closer to the family, however, the couple moved to Küsnacht on Lake Zurich in 1929, where Meinrad Lienert unexpectedly died of heart failure just four years later at the age of 68 .

His novel The Double Matthias and His Daughters was made into a film in 1941. The script and direction were from Sigfrit Steiner , the recording assistant was Walter Kägi , the music was written by Robert Blum .

In 2015 his descendants donated his estate to the Zurich Central Library .

Artistic creation

Lienert is considered one of the founders of Swiss dialect poetry . His poetry , written in the Highest Alemannic Einsiedler dialect, is of lasting quality , whereas the novels written in High German are now forgotten. Lienert remained well known as the editor of a volume about Swiss sagas and heroic stories that was published again and again .

Numerous poems have been set to music for male and mixed choirs, including by Othmar Schoeck , and the novella Annebethli was arranged by the composer Theodor Diener for the three-hour opera Der Spiegel . Best known today, however, the setting for are yodel choirs, for example , for 'Alp and lovers ha of Emil Grolimund and O chönnt i is Bärgland, Hei wili hei, Lanzig and the old Schwyzer from Lachner Fred Stocker, a nephew of the well-known folk musicians Stocker Sepp. The setting of the poem Hei wili, hei , immortalized on the memorial fountain in Einsiedeln , is part of the standard repertoire of the “Waldstattecho” yodelling club in Einsiedeln.

Awards and honors

  • 1919 honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich
  • Meinrad Lienert-Strasse in Zurich
  • Meinrad Lienert-Platz in Einsiedeln.

Quotes

From: The double Matthias and his daughters (pp. 8–9)

«When this Matthias Stump matured and came into his manhood, it became clear that he had become a tough, defensive lad, yes, a whole man on short legs, who was afraid of nothing and nobody and who kept getting up like a man hardwood king in the cone ring, no matter how often life tripped him and brought him down. So he came to good years and a happy home. And the older he got, the more upright he seemed to carry himself, so that the people said it was for them all the time, that little thunder of God, the double Matthias, was the most vigorous thing there could be. It would seem to you, when you see him moving up so straight ahead, that he is growing and one day he will become a giant. "

From: The Art of Illendorf (p. 19)

«... And he wants to be an artist! I mean, the greatest art is surely that you master yourself and behave and act right like people, that's how it goes to you like people. " - “Yes,” said the old man, sitting down at the stove again to his art history, “you are right in many things, mother, but not everything. The little saying that one should act like people, then feel like the people you have attracted, like so many sayings, also has its breaks. It would be bleakly boring in the world if all people were the same and were the same, but that's not the case. Even if they seem to do the same, they are not only from Hag to Hag, even from one tablecloth to the other, yes, the twins in the cradle are fundamentally different from one another, however much they have in common. (...) »

Works (in selection)

  • Flüehblüemli. Erzehlige us dä Schwyzerbärge, 1891, online
  • Stories from the Schwyzerberge. Stories, 1894
  • Migratory birds, 1897
  • It was a golden time! Childhood Memories, 1906
  • S 'Juzlienis Schwäbelpfyffli. Dialect poems, 1906; New edition under the title S 'Schwäbelpfyffli in three volumes plus commentary volume 1992, volume 1 (1925) , volume 2 (1925) , volume 3 (1920)
  • The Piper King. A story of Zurich, novel, 1909
  • Mountain village stories, 1914
  • Three old-fashioned love stories, 1916
  • Hansjörli's ride based on the magic word, novel, 1922
  • The King of Euland, 1928
  • The double Matthias and his daughters, Roman, 1929
  • Stories from Swiss history, 1930
  • The Art of Illendorf, 1931
  • The little bell on Rain, story, 1933
Works for children and young people
  • Swiss sagas and heroic stories. The youth tells, Stuttgart 1914 ( online ); New edition Wiesbaden 2006
  • Zurich legends. told the youth, Zurich 1919; New edition [Siebnen] 2013
  • The discovery of America - Das Bergspieglein, Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk (SJW), issue 89

literature

  • Gottfried Bohnenblust: Meinrad Lienert. Speech in his memory, given in the Tonhalle in Zurich. Gotthelf-Verl., Bern 1935.
  • Ernst Eschmann : Meinrad Lienert on his 50th birthday. In: Switzerland, Volume 19, 1915, pp. 317-320.
  • Karl Hensler: Our poet Meinrad Lienert. May 21, 1865 - December 26, 1933. ea Druck + Verlag, Einsiedeln 2010, ISBN 978-3-9521364-4-7 .
  • Wernerkarl Kälin: Meinrad Lienert, 1865–1933. Education Department, Schwyz 1983 (= Schwyzer Hefte; 29).
  • Christian Schmid : Lienert, Meinrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Commemorative publication for the 75th birthday of Meinrad Lienert (1865–1933), the designer and enricher of the dialect, the portrayal of the homeland, the master of the song. Edited by G. Schmid et al. Emmy Rogivue Waser. Schwyzerlüt-Verl., Oberdiessbach 1939.
  • Walter Schmitz:  Lienert, Meinrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 529 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Schwab: Meinrad Lienert's historical poetry. Origin and sources. Haupt, Bern u. a. 1940.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Idioticon. Report on the year 1933. [Zurich] 1934, p. 3 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ 1941, The double Matthias and his daughters. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse, accessed on June 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 .
personal data
SURNAME Lienert, Meinrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lienert, Meinrad Alois (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Einsiedeln
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1933
Place of death Küsnacht