Paul Haller

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Paul Haller (1882–1920), after an oil painting by Giovanni Giacometti, 1918

Paul Haller (born July 13, 1882 in Rein near Brugg (today in Rüfenach ), † March 10, 1920 in Zurich ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Paul Haller grew up as the son of the pastor Paul Haller (1840-1911) and Angelika Marie Haller, born Schwab, from Basel (1840-1918), with four siblings in the rectory of Rein near Brugg. He studied theology in Basel , Marburg and Berlin . In Germany he dealt intensively with the social-religious currents of the new theology. In 1906 he was ordained as a pastor on Kirchberg near Küttigen . In 1910 he gave up the pastor's position to begin studying German at the University of Zurich , which he completed in 1913 with a dissertation on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi with Adolf Frey . After completing his studies, Haller worked as a teacher at the Protestant grammar school in Schiers and from 1916 at the teachers' seminar in Wettingen . In 1918 he began psychotherapy with Carl Gustav Jung . In 1920 he committed suicide in Zurich.

Thanks to the mediation of his brother and biographer Erwin Haller, his estate is now in the Aargau State Archives in Aarau .

Create

Haller's dialect epic 's Juramareili and his dialect drama Marie and Robert are literarily significant . In both works Haller succeeded in making an independent Swiss adaptation of the naturalism that he had got to know during his studies in Berlin. In the socially critical verse epic Juramareili , he described the fate of a girl whose life was ruined by her father's alcohol abuse . Marie and Robert , settled in the working class, was the first serious dialect drama and addressed the conflict between love passion and conscience.

With his dialect poems he influenced Aargau authors such as Hansjörg Schneider and Hermann Burger . But his High German poems are also among the most haunting things that the years between 1910 and 1920 produced in Switzerland.

Works

Haller's dialect epic 's Juramareili
  • 's Juramareili. Poem in Aargau dialect. Sauerländer, Aarau 1912 (reprinted 1976).
  • Pestalozzi's poetry. Dissertation Zurich 1914.
  • Marie and Robert. Play in three acts (premiere: April 9, 1917 in Aarau). Francke, Bern 1916.
  • Poems. Collected and edited by Dr. Erwin Haller . Sauerländer, Aarau 1922.
  • Collected Works. With the support of the Aargau government council, ed. by Erwin Haller. Sauerländer, Aarau 1956; second edition, ibid. 1964.
  • So dark black eyes. New edition of the works (with CD). BV, Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-85545-146-3 .

literature

  • Erwin Haller : Paul Haller 1882–1920. A picture of life. Sauerländer, Aarau 1931.
  • Erwin Haller: Paul Haller 1882–1920. In: Pictures of life from Aargau. 1803-1953. 150 years of the canton of Aargau. Anniversary edition of the Historical Society [Volume 1] (= Argovia . Volume 65, ISSN  2235-5359 ). Sauerländer, Aarau 1953, pp. 429–432 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  • Erwin Haller:  Haller, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 551 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Felicitas Höchli: Paul Haller. In: Helvetic profiles. 47 writers from German-speaking Switzerland since 1800. Edited by the Zurich Seminar for Literary Criticism with Werner Weber . Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1981, pp. 85–89.
  • Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Paul Haller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 13, 2006 .
  • Urs Steiner: Paul Haller and his play 'Marie and Robert'. Zurich German Studies, ed. by Michael Böhler, Harald Burger and Peter von Matt. Volume 29. Verlag Peter Lang, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-261-04510-8 .
  • Anna Stüssi: Haller, Paul. In: German Literature Lexicon . Biographical-bibliographical manual. 3rd, completely revised edition. Volume 7: Haab - Hogrebe. Edited by Heinz Rupp and Carl Ludwig Lang. Francke, Bern / Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7720-1461-5 , Sp. 197.
  • Gottfried Wälchli: Paul Haller 1882–1920. The tragedy of a Swiss poet. VOB, Olten 1946.
  • Werner Wüthrich: Paul Haller . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 787 f.
  • Ruth S. Zschokke: Paul Haller and Pestalozzi. Stapferhaus, Lenzburg 1998, ISBN 3-905595-08-7 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Haller: Paul Haller 1882–1920. In: Pictures of life from Aargau. 1803-1953. 150 years of the canton of Aargau. Anniversary edition of the Historical Society [Volume 1] (= Argovia . Volume 65, ISSN  2235-5359 ). Sauerländer, Aarau 1953, pp. 429–432, here p. 431 f. ( e-periodica.ch ).
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH In at Brugg
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1920
Place of death Zurich