Rolf Hörler
Rolf Hörler (born September 26, 1933 in Uster ; died August 17, 2007 in Wädenswil ) was a Swiss poet .
Life
Rolf Hörler grew up in St. Gallen from the age of six . He attended the Mariaberg teachers' seminar in Rorschach and then worked as a teacher in Burgau , Flawil , Zurich and Richterswil for over 40 years . Since 1994 he has lived as a freelance writer alternately in Wädenswil on Lake Zurich and on La Mausse ( Berlou , Arrondissement Béziers ) in Languedoc .
He has published numerous volumes of poetry and was editor of the magazine reflexe . In his poems he addresses language, its inadequacies and the border areas between sayability and unspeakability. As an example, the poem Behausung from the last volume of poetry Federlesen from 2003:
He withdrew into
the word
as if into a snail shell,
on a seemingly endless
spiral staircase that
led inward
in ever tighter turns
.
The word
in which he
locked himself up
and which from then on
served him as a dwelling
, he did not reveal to anyone,
because he
wanted to remain undetectable
in this one word
in the form of a spiral
.
Rolf Hörler died of cancer in 2007 at the age of 73.
Awards
- 1974: Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
- 1976: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize
- 1981: Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
- 1984: Award from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1992: Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
- 1993: Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
Works
- My quarry. Zurich 1970.
- My divining rod. Richterswil 1972.
- Manuscripts. Richterswil 1973.
- Intermediate sprint for poets. Drawings by Peter Wiedenmeier. Richterswil 1973.
- Plaintexts. Poems 1974. Wädenswil 1975.
- Word trails. Poems 1975. Richterswil 1976.
- Time fuse. 1976 ff.
- My kerbholz. Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-87561-526-3 .
- The air had cooled off from summer. 69 early poems. Illustrations by Peter Wiedenmeier. Richterswil 1977.
- Back to Riga. Waedenswil 1977.
- Back light. Poems 1977. Drawings by Peter Wiedenmeier. Waedenswil 1978.
- Trapping iron. Poems 1978. Drawings by Peter Wiedenmeier. Waedenswil 1979.
- Help may come from Biberbrugg. Zurich 1980.
- Slipstream. 52 poems. Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-85842-048-4 .
- Isolated bright spots. Selected poems. Richterswil 1984, ISBN 3-906370-04-6 .
- Nettle words. Zurich approx. 1992, ISBN 3-85842-233-9 .
- Erlkönig's daughter and the Achilles verse. Poems 1970–1997. Zelg-Wolfhalden 1997.
- with Antonietta Pellegrino: The Soul Dancer and the North-South Divan. Waedenswil 1998.
- An attic room for the coming century. 281 poems. Wädenswil 2000.
- Feather reading. Zurich 2003.
literature
- Pia Reinacher: Hörler, Rolf . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 5, p. 501.
- Hans Peter Treichler: Two poets, two life's works: Notes on Ernst Eschmann and Rolf Hörler. In: Telling a story. Festschrift for Peter Ziegler on his 75th birthday. Edited by Wädenswil City Council. Wädenswil 2012, ISBN 978-3-85928-089-2 , pp. 45-55.
- Dowser of poetry. Poet Rolf Hörler from Appenzell. In: Innerrhoder Geschichtsfreund 24 (1980), pp. 57-61, doi : 10.5169 / seals-405227 , online .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hörler, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uster |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 2007 |
| Place of death | Waedenswil |