Oskar Kollbrunner

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Oskar Kollbrunner (1895–1932) writer
Oskar Kollbrunner

Oskar Kollbrunner (born March 26, 1895 in Hüttlingen , TG ; † March 14, 1932 there ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Oskar Kollbrunner was born in Hüttlingen as the older of two sons of his father Jakob, a master winder and farmer, and his mother Anna Karolina, née Bachmann. Their sense for the musical is said to have awakened the creative powers in him, and the mother-son relationship lasted lifelong.

His teacher Schoop initially helped him with technical tips on his verses and sent him to the Kreuzlingen teachers' college . After the second grade, he left the seminary in March 1913 in order to follow his wanderlust. Munich and Geneva were my first stops. During a three-month course at the Huber publishing house in Frauenfeld, he first became familiar with office work.

On September 7th, 1913, he began the crossing to America in order to make his way from New York , vagabonding and sometimes in great distress, until 1917. Back in New York late in 1917, he found a place to stay when Benedikt Sigbert Meier, the owner and editor of the American Swiss Newspaper (ASZ), who was born in Disentis in 1868 , got involved as an association reporter for the numerous activities of the Swiss colony in and around New York.

From 1919 to 1921 Kollbrunner acted as assistant secretary of the consulate in New York; from 1925 he was involved and co-editor of the American Swiss newspaper . After the death of his much older wife Anna Aldrich geb. Schulthes, with whom he had married in 1922, he returned to Hüttlingen in 1928. There he published his collection of poems, Gift of Silence in 1929 .

His poems and stories were initially committed to Expressionism , and from 1923 to New Objectivity . "The New World Poems are an important contribution to German urban poetry ."

Oskar Kollbrunner found his final resting place in the Hüttlingen cemetery.

Works

  • Skyscrapers and Swiss homesickness. Poems by an America driver. Ernst Kuhn, Biel / Bern 1925.
  • Driftwood. Errors of an America driver. Huber, Frauenfeld / Leipzig 1927.
  • Mister Bucalo's tavern. Narrative. Huber, Frauenfeld / Leipzig 1927.
  • Gift of silence. Poems. Huber, Frauenfeld / Leipzig 1929.
  • The story of the miller Nepomuk. in: TJb 1933, pp. 36-42.

The works published in newspapers and magazines are verified by: Linus Spuler: Oskar Kollbrunner. Life, work and literary historical position of a Swiss poet in the New World. Frauenfeld 1955 (also Diss. Phil. I, Freiburg / Switzerland 1954), pp. 93–94.

literature

  • Manfred Bosch : Bohème am Bodensee: Literary life on the lake from 1900 to 1950. Libelle, Lengwil 1997, p. 363f.
  • Albert M. Debrunner: The art of living and the life of an artist - a Thurgau friendship for a hundred years. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . Vol. 85, 2010, pp. 97-108. ( e-periodica.ch )
  • Dino Larese : Oskar Kollbrunner, a Thurgau poet. In: Thurgau annual folder. 1949, no p.
  • Linus Spuler: Oskar Kollbrunner. Life, work and literary historical position of a Swiss poet in the New World. Frauenfeld 1955 (also Diss. Phil. I, Freiburg / Switzerland 1954).
  • Linus Spuler: New York Poems. On the urban poetry of the Swiss American Oskar Kollbrunner. In: Euphorion , 47 (1953), pp. 341-350.
  • Linus Spuler: German-language New World poetry. For the 100th birthday of Oskar Kollbrunner, Hüttlingen / New York. In: Swiss monthly books . 75: 29-31 (1995). (on-line)
  • Linus Spuler: Oskar Kollbrunner (1895–1932) writer. In: Thurgau Contributions to History. Vol. 132, 1995, pp. 195-201.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linus Spuler: Oskar Kollbrunner 1895–1932. In: André Salathé (Hrsg.) Thurgauer Köpfe 1. Verlag des Historisches Verein des Kantons Thurgau, pp. 195–201.
  2. ^ André Salathé: Oskar Kollbrunner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. August 27, 2007.
  3. ^ André Salathé: Oskar Kollbrunner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. August 27, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Kollbrunner, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hüttlingen TG
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1932
Place of death Hüttlingen TG