Pirmin Meier

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Pirmin Meier (2017)

Pirmin Adrian Meier (born February 21, 1947 in Würenlingen , Canton Aargau ) is a Swiss author , adult educator and former high school teacher .

Life

Pirmin Meier grew up as the son of a butcher family in Würenlingen. He studied German , philosophy and history at the University of Zurich and did his doctorate under Peter von Matt with a thesis on Reinhold Schneider as a historiographical writer. He then worked as an editor at the Catholic Aargauer Volksblatt , as a co-editor of Reinhold Schneider's works at the Suhrkamp / Insel publishing house and as a district teacher in the canton of Aargau.

From 1979 to 2012 he taught German, philosophy, religious studies and ethics at the Beromünster Cantonal School . He works as a historiographical writer , publicist, adult educator and television employee, especially in the area of ​​historical regional studies and spirituality. As editor and former lecturer, he has been responsible for the works of the Swiss working-class writer Karl Kloter since 1991 .

Services

For the writer Hansjörg Schneider , who is a friend of Meier, he is “the most independent, headstrong Swiss historian of his generation”, for the publicist Eduard Stäuble “a historiographical writer of high standing”. His works move in the tradition of fictional historiography of the Anglo-Saxon countries and France, as it was cultivated in German by Golo Mann , a predecessor of Pirmin Meier as recipient of the Lake Constance Literature Prize . The subtitle “a narrative research” in the book about Heinrich Federer is programmatic. The main characters in his literary biographies are consistently creative thinkers who, in the course of their lives, are temporarily or permanently sidelined. Meier's most successful work Paracelsus, Doktor und Prophet was translated into various languages ​​(including Russian) and was published in 2013 in the 6th edition 2013 with the dedication “ in memoriam Federal Councilor Otto Stich”. Meier's most extensive work, Ich Bruder Klaus von Flüe, was recognized by the mystic expert Alois M. Haas as the “best interpretation” of the Swiss national saint to date. In 2008 Hugo Loetscher was critical of Meier's not very globalization-friendly conservatism and a strongly Christian image of Europe, while at the same time praising an unconventional view of history, through which "Central Switzerland got on the literary map of Switzerland".

In 1984 Pirmin Meier published a volume of poetry in free verse form, peppered with literary allusions. Since 2004 he has been writing libretti for musical festivals and oratorios , such as the hagiography Vitus (about St. Vitus ) interspersed with folk religious motifs , set to music by Enrico Lavarini , and most recently the Holy Cross Vespers for Carl Rütti , which was published in May 2013 in the pilgrimage church Heiligkreuz (Entlebuch ) was premiered. In 2011, von Meier appeared in the Swiss book for young people Sankt Gotthard und der Schmied von Göschenen , a complete revision of the youth novel Der Schmied von Göschenen by Robert Schedler , in which the historical context based on scientific literature was taken more into account than in the original.

Awards

Fonts

Independent publications

  • Reinhold Schneider: A short guide through life and work . Baden-Verlag, Baden 1972
  • Form and dissonance. Reinhold Schneider as a historiographical writer . Lang, Bern 1978
  • Godly werewolf. Literary poems . SAZ, Zurich 1984
  • Joseph Victor von Scheffel and the Seetal. On the 100th anniversary of the poet's death. In memoriam Dr. Samuel Siegrist . Seengen 1986
  • Fundamentalism, a New Threat? IPZ, Zurich 1989
  • Memorial Muri . St. Martin Foundation, Muri 1991
  • Paracelsus . Doctor and prophet. Approaches to Theophrastus von Hohenheim . Ammann, Zurich 1993; 6th edition, Unionsverlag, Zurich 2013
  • Switzerland. Mysterious landscape in the shadow of the Alps . Goldmann (Magisch Reisen), Munich 1993
  • I brother Klaus von Flüe . A story from inner Switzerland. A biographical discourse . Ammann, Zurich 1997; 2nd edition Zurich 2000
  • The loneliness of the state prisoner Micheli du Crest . A story of freedom, physics and democracy . Pendo, Zurich 1999
  • Eduard Spörri . An old master from Aargau . AT, Aarau 2001
  • Murder, Philosophy and the Love of Men. Franz Desgouttes and Heinrich Hössli . A parallel biography . Pendo, Zurich 2001
  • The Federer case . Priests and writers in the hour of temptation. A narrative research . Ammann, Zurich 2002
  • Landscape of the pilgrims. Mysterious places in the heart of Switzerland . Comenius, Lucerne 2005
  • Politics, Principles and the Court of History. A time-critical analysis formulated with appropriate severity . Swiss time, Flaach 2007
  • Learn the life and live the learning. Outlook on Erwin Jaeckle (1909–1997) on his 100th birthday. Foundation for Occidental Ethics and Culture, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-033-02135-8
  • Sankt Gotthard and the blacksmith von Göschenen . SJW, Zurich 2011, 144 pages, including 16 pages in color, ISBN 978-3-7269-0597-2 (as e-book 2014)
  • Xaver Herzog, 1810–1883, pastor, church builder, folk writer. Parish of Ballwil 2012
  • Schola beronensis. Paths and aberrations in Lucerne's educational history in a thousand years - 150 years of Beromünster Cantonal Middle School , Beronmünster 2016, ISBN 978-3-9523534-7-9
  • with Josef Lang : Kulturkampf. 19th century Switzerland in the mirror of today. Verlag Hier und Jetzt, Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-03919-398-1

Articles (selection)

Web links / sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ z. B. Karl Kloter : wrong ways and ways home, prose - poetry - documents. Rothenhäusler Verlag, Stäfa 1995, ISBN 3-907960-72-6 . Cf. Rolf Dorner: What plagued the worker-writer Karl Kloter in everyday life.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Löwenspur online , No. 1, accessed on June 2, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.al-leu.ch  
  2. ^ Hansjörg Schneider : Sokrates and de Sade in Helvetia . Review of Murder, Philosophy, and Men's Love , OnlineReports, September 17, 2001, accessed June 2, 2013
  3. ^ Eduard Stäuble : A historiographical writer of high rank. In: STAB Prize 2000 for Pirmin Meier. No. 36 of the STAB series, p. 5
  4. ↑ Alois M. Haas : A work of memory and reflection. In: STAB Prize 2000 for Pirmin Meier. No. 36 of the STAB series, Zurich 2000, p. 16
  5. ^ Hugo Loetscher : Laudation Pirmin Meier. In: Central Switzerland Cultural Foundation, Central Switzerland Culture and Literature Prize 2008. Lucerne 2008, p. 23
  6. ↑ Lucerne State Chancellery: Presentation of the Central Switzerland Culture Prize 2008 to Pirmin Meier, writer and teacher, Rickenbach, LU , press portal news aktuell , January 18, 2008 (press release), accessed on June 2, 2013.
  7. ↑ Linus Estermann: pioneer of Swiss animal protection honored. In: Zentralplus. 5th November 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Pirmin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meier, Pirmin Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss middle school teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Würenlingen