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Orlando Spreng (born October 30, 1908 in Sesto Cremonese in Italy , † January 27, 1950 in Viganello ) was a Swiss postal worker and writer.

Life

Orlando Spreng was the son of the emigrated Bernese cheese master Hans Albert Spreng and his wife Mathilde (née Dondé).

After his father had failed with the plan to produce Emmental cheese in the Po Valley , the family moved from Lombardy to Maroggia in the canton of Ticino at the start of the First World War in 1914 , where his father got a job as a teacher in one Agricultural school .

Orlando Spreng attended primary school in Maroggia for five years , the Progymnasium in Mendrisio from 1920 to 1924 and the commercial college in Bellinzona until 1926 . From 1926 he was a post office clerk in the Bern branch at Kornhausplatz and from 1944 in Lugano . From 1940 to 1943 he served as an Italian correspondent on the staff of the Swiss Army Command in Langnau in the Emmental .

Orlando Spreng had been married to Rina, daughter of Angelo Bosisio, since 1931. They had two children together; his son died shortly after him of the same hereditary disease.

Writing

Orlando Spreng was also active as a writer during his time as a postal clerk. He also worked for the Libera Stampa newspaper and for Radio Monteceneri .

In his work Rekrut Senzapace , which appeared four days before the mobilization in 1939, he shows in a series of funny scenes the clumsiness of a clumsy farmer in the way he was described in The Good Soldier Schwejk , and who with his clumsiness ultimately becomes powerless Officers exposed. Orlando Spreng was officially asked by the Swiss Army in 1940 and 1943 to write suitable texts for the soldiers' Christmas, which were then distributed to 5000 soldiers in Italian as their mother tongue. In Il sesso forte from 1940, he then portrayed the strong sex not as military heroes, but as housemen, and in Capitan, from 1943, the captain of the title is a rooster who commands hens in the chicken yard.

In his other works he takes up topics that have to do with uprooting through emigration and with the difficulties that arise when returning and reintegrating, as the country has changed in the meantime.

Posthumously he published Il lago in 1952 .

Memberships

Awards

  • Orlando Spreng received the Schiller Prize for La recluta Senzapace from the Swiss Schiller Foundation in 1939 with a related donation of 500 Swiss francs .

Fonts (selection)

  • La recluta Senzapace . Lugano: N. Mazzucconi, 1939.
  • Il sesso forte . Lugano: Arti grafiche, società anonima successori a N. Mazzuconi, 1940.
  • Capitan . Lugano: Arti grafiche, 1940.
  • Il reduce . Lugano: Arti Grafiche, 1941.
  • Orlando Spreng; Jakob Bührer : Gioia . Zurich Book Guild Gutenberg 1941.
  • L'ancien combattant . Lausanne: Librairie Payot, 1944.
  • Il lago . Lugano, Arti grafiche SA, 1952.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Libera Stampa. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Awards and donations (chronological) - Schiller Foundation. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Spreng, Orlando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Sesto Cremonese
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1950
Place of death Viganello