Otto Wirz

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Otto Wirz (born November 3, 1877 in Olten , † September 2, 1946 in Gunten am Thunersee ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Otto Wirz grew up as the son of an engineer, initially in Olten and from 1890 in Immendingen . He attended high school in Donaueschingen . He completed his studies at the Technikum Winterthur and the TH in Munich and Darmstadt with a diploma as an electrical engineer . From 1908 to 1926 he worked as a technical expert at the Federal Patent Office in Bern, where he met Albert Einstein .

In 1909 he married Fanny Clara Wyss (1881–1971); their marriage had three children. In 1913 he met Hermann Hesse , whose novel Peter Camenzind made him write himself in 1905.

Wirz struggled with health problems all his life (tuberculosis, heart failure, depression). After his early retirement in 1926, he moved to Zurich as a freelance writer and later to Lake Thun.

Works

Original editions

  • Rule of a fool . Novel, 2 volumes, J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1923
  • Novella about God , Engelhorns, Stuttgart 1925
  • The crouched force . Roman, Engelhorns, Stuttgart 1928
  • The magical me . With two award-winning essays on Otto Wirz by Edmund Finke and Ludwig Gorm, Engelhorns, Stuttgart 1929
  • Prophet Müller-two . Roman, Engelhorns, Stuttgart 1933
  • Late fulfillment . Roman, Engelhorns, Stuttgart 1936
  • Rebellion of love . Roman, Eugen Rentsch, Zurich-Leipzig 1937
  • Measure for measure . From an unpublished novel (= rebels and ghosts ). Introduction by Emil Staiger , Volksverlag, Elgg 1944
  • The iron breaker . Story, Tschudy (Der Bogen 68), St. Gallen 1959
  • Rebels and ghosts . Roman fragment. With a foreword by Wolf Wirz and an afterword by Werner Günther, Huber, Frauenfeld 1965

Contributions

  • Introduction to Nias. The island of idols , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1929
  • ? in: New German storytellers , Paul Franke, Berlin undated (around 1930)

Newer editions

  • Rule of a fool . With an introduction by Emil Staiger and an afterword by Wolf Wirz, Huber, Frauenfeld 1969
  • Prophet Müller-Zwo . Afterword by Fritz Schaub, Ex Libris (Spring of the Present), Zurich 1983

literature

  • Carl Seelig : Otto Wirz 1877-1946. A rebel among the German-Swiss storytellers , E. Reinhardt, Basel 1959
  • Reinhart Maag: Otto Wirz. Violence of a fool (Diss. Zurich), Keller, Winterthur 1961
  • Fritz Schaub : Otto Wirz. Awakening and disintegration of the new man , Francke, Bern 1970
  • Dieter Fringeli : The sufferings of Hans Calonder , in: Poets offside. Swiss authors from Glauser to Hohl , Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1974, pp. 65–77 and 178f
  • Halina Kappeler-Borowska: Otto Wirz. Poet and man . Diss., Juris, Zurich 1978
  • Sabina Streiter in: Helvetic profiles. 47 writers from German-speaking Switzerland since 1800 . Edited by the Zurich Seminar for Literary Criticism with Werner Weber , pp. 302–307, Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Wirz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Olten , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1946
Place of death Gunten on Lake Thun