Richard Salis

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Richard Salis (born March 7, 1931 in Stettin ; † May 8, 1988 in Reutlingen ) was a German writer and editor .

Life

Richard Salis was the son of a city worker and grew up in Szczecin. With the mother he fled in 1947 to West Germany , where he worked in Heide a Sandformerlehre completed in a foundry. In 1950 he settled in Reutlingen , where he worked as an employee of a graphic art institute . With his roommate Günter Bruno Fuchs , Salis published several volumes of aphorisms and poems from the mid-1950s . In 1952 he founded the Reutlinger Telegram Group , also with GB Fuchs and the painter Winand Victor , on which he worked with numerous other writers and visual artists until the end of publication in 1958. In 1957/58 Salis published the magazine Visum , which later became part of the alternative , of which he was co-editor until 1960. In 1961/62 Salis' satirical magazine Das Fallbeil was published . From 1965 to 1986 he published Reutlinger Drucke . He was also co-editor of the anthology Disrespectful Songs and editor of the author's self-portraits under the title Motive . He last lived in Pfullingen and died in 1988 of kidney failure.

Works

  • Fenster und Weg , Halle 1955 (together with Günter Bruno Fuchs and Dietrich Kirsch)
  • Poetry for the initiated , Reutlingen 1956
  • Strokes through your existence , Reutlingen / Württ. 1957
  • Disrespectful songs , Tübingen [a. a.] 1970 (together with Frank Auerbach)
  • Marginalia , Reicheneck 1987
  • With the feathered snake , Tübingen 2001

Editing

  • Motive, Motive , Tübingen [u. a.] 1971

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personal data
SURNAME Salis, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1988
Place of death Reutlingen