Reto Caratsch

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Reto Caratsch (born May 6, 1901 in Turin , † October 20, 1978 in Zurich ) was a Swiss lawyer , journalist and writer .

Life

Reto Caratsch was born in Turin, his parents were Flori Caratsch and Luigia Robbi. He visited the Grisons cantonal school in Chur and studied in Geneva and in Rome and Zurich jurisprudence . In 1925 he started working for the NZZ . His places of activity were Bern, Berlin, Basel and Paris. In 1932 he married Irma Pidermann. During his time in Berlin, his son Claudio Caratsch was born in 1936 , who later became Swiss ambassador to various African countries and an employee of the ICRC . Because of his critical articles, Caratsch was spied on by the Gestapo. To their annoyance, he communicates with the editorial staff in Zurich, preferably in Romansh , which makes the work of his supervisors considerably more difficult. In 1940 the Nazi regime expelled him from Germany and returned to Switzerland. The pro-German ambassador of Switzerland in Berlin, Hans Frölicher , welcomed this decision and noted that the NZZ should have withdrawn it earlier, since today (1940) reports about Nazi Germany would have to be friendly and not critical.

literature

Caratsch is the author of the satire La renaschentscha dals Patagons . This deals - in only very superficially encrypted form - with the Patagonians (the Rhaeto-Romans) and their so-called cultural and linguistic rebirth. Later he also wrote detective novels ( Il commissari da la cravatta verda ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clà Riatsch: Caratsch, Reto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ http://www.suedostschweiz.ch/vermischtes/claudio-caratsch-sprech-im-grischalog-ueber-seine-botschafterzeit
  3. ↑ http://www.engadinerpost.ch/2014/09/anekdoten-aus-dem-leben-eines-weltreisenden.html
  4. ↑ Ludwig Theodor Heuss: Liberal lighthouse. Praise to the old aunt on Falkenstrasse . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 29, 2016, p. 34.
  5. ↑ letter of H. Frölicher to P. Bonna from June 11, 1940 in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Caratsch, Reto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1978
Place of death Zurich