Robert Faesi

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Robert Faesi, 1914

Robert Faesi (born April 10, 1883 in Zurich , † September 18, 1972 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss German scholar and writer .

Life

Robert Faesi came from a wealthy Zurich patrician family . After graduating from high school, he first studied law , then German. In 1907 he was charged with a dissertation about Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich Dr. phil. PhD . He was a grammar school teacher in Zurich, undertook several long educational trips and completed his habilitation in 1911 at the University of Zurich , where he was appointed associate professor for recent German and Swiss literary history in 1922, full professor (only) in 1943 and retired in 1953 .

As a Germanist, he wrote monographs on newer "classics" such as Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , Carl Spitteler , Rainer Maria Rilke or Thomas Mann , as well as a history of recent Swiss literature, and as a writer a comprehensive work covering all genres. He became "popular" with his story Füsilier Wipf , which was filmed in 1938 . In 1945 he received the Zurich City Literature Prize for his Zurich novel trilogy , which deals with the history of Zurich in the first half of the 19th century. The Zurich novel tetralogy Alles in Allem by Kurt Guggenheim (published shortly afterwards) forms a kind of counterpoint to this «conservative» city history . Since 1951 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Documents relating to Robert Faesi, letters and materials on the work as well as memoirs can be found in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library .

Works

prose

  • Zurich idyll . Novella. Schulthess, Zurich 1908; newly revised version ibid. 1950
  • Fusilier Wipf. A story from the Swiss border service . Huber, Frauenfeld 1917 ( Swiss storytellers Volume 10); Revised version ibid. 1938
  • The King of Sainte-Pélagie . Narrative. Hermann Haessel , Leipzig 1924
  • From the minuet to the Marseillaise . Novella. Grethlein, Zurich / Leipzig 1930
  • Zurich novel trilogy:
    • The city of the fathers . Atlantis, Zurich 1941; Revised version ibid. 1967
    • The City of Freedom , ibid. 1944
    • The City of Peace , ibid. 1952
  • All grain means wheat . Novel. Atlantis, Zurich 1961
  • Experiences, results . Memories. Atlantis, Zurich 1963
  • Diodor . Powerlessness . Narrative. Atlantis, Zurich 1968

Poetry

  • Out of the surf. Time poems by a Swiss . Huber, Frauenfeld 1917
  • The burning bush . Grethlein, Zurich / Leipzig 1926
  • The face of the earth . Insel, Leipzig 1936
  • Day of our people. A Swiss poem (= festival cantata for Landi 1939 ). Huber, Frauenfeld 1939
  • Unsympathetic world rhymed . Atlantis, Zurich 1946
  • Above the roofs . Bühl, Herrliberg 1946
  • The poems . Atlantis, Zurich 1955

Drama

  • Odysseus and Nausicaa . Tragedy in 3 acts. Schulthess, Zurich 1911
  • The open doors . Comedy in 2 acts. Oesterheld, Berlin 1912
  • The facade . Comedy in 3 acts. Oesterheld, Berlin 1918
  • Poets' needs or true tragic comedy and gruesome martyrdom of the Swiss writers. A Kasperlispiel invented with much diligence and in doggerel brought . Schulthess, Zurich 1921
  • Sacrificial game . Grethlein, Zurich / Leipzig 1925
  • Idle . Comedy in 3 acts. Reiss, Basel 1929
  • The magician. Playing with stars . Huber, Frauenfeld 1938
  • The game of the black spider . Opera in 2 acts, based on the story by Jeremias Gotthelf . Incidental music by Willy Burkhard . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1949; Tschudi, Glarus 1956

Essays and monographs

  • Paul Ernst and the New Classical Aspirations in Drama . Xenien, Leipzig 1913
  • Poetic Zurich. Miniatures from the 18th century (with Eduard Korrodi ). Rascher, Zurich 1913 - Swiss Library 9/10
  • Carl Spitteler. A representation of his personality . Rascher, Zurich 1915
  • Rainer Maria Rilke . Amalthea, Zurich / Leipzig / Vienna 1919
  • Forms and changes in Swiss poetry . 10 essays. Amalthea, Zurich / Leipzig / Vienna 1922
  • Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . Haessel, Leipzig 1925; Revised version: Huber, Frauenfeld 1948
  • Home and genius. Festival papers on Swiss intellectual history . Huber, Frauenfeld 1933
  • Spitteler's way and work . Huber, Frauenfeld 1933
  • Thomas Mann. A master of storytelling . Atlantis, Zurich 1955

As editor

  • Soldier and citizen. A contribution to the national education of the Swiss. With a foreword by General Ulrich Wille (with Gonzague de Reynold and Charles Gos ). Schulthess, Zurich 1916
  • Anthologia Helvetica. German, French, Italian, Rhaeto-Romanic and Latin poems and folk songs . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1921 ( Bibliotheca mundi series )
    • unchanged new edition as: The harvest of Swiss poetry . Rascher, Zurich 1928

literature

Exhibitions

«O beloved Switzerland!» A chapter of German-Swiss literary relations. The example of Robert Faesi, Hermann-Hesse-Höri-Museum, Gaienhofen , June 30 - September 29, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Faesi, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fäsi, Robert (written variant)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Germanist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1972
Place of death Zollikon