Rudolf Fastenrath

Rudolf Fastenrath (born March 12, 1856 in Halver , Westphalia , † December 4, 1925 in Lamone ), from 1905 an honorary citizen of Magliaso , was a German naturopath and writer .

Life

Rudolf Fastenrath was a son of Wilhelm Fastenrath, a yellow caster, and Karoline Bürger. In 1872, Fastenrath opened a practice for sexually transmitted diseases in Herisau without studying medicine , which caused a scandal . After a temporary professional ban , he ran a lucrative homeopathic private clinic from 1874 . From around 1878 this was a mail order business with homeopathic remedies and coffee was affiliated. In 1905 he moved to Magliaso, later to Bedigliora and then to Lamone.

Fastenrath was an avid tourism promoter : from 1891 to 1893 he initiated mountain railway projects on the Gäbris and the Säntis . From 1902 to 1907 he owned the Gontenbad bath and spa facility . In 1903 and 1904 he built a sound hall for 600 people with an attached spa hotel in Herisau. He founded tourism in Malcantone by setting up the Magliaso Tourist Office . Fastenrath wrote folk theater pieces and home song cycles. From 1874 to 1879 he published the monthly magazine Schweizerische Dichterhalle . In 1917 he published the highly autobiographical colored Roman retirement .

Works

• Grüetz di Gott, mi Appezell! Song cycle by Rudolf Fastenrath, composed by Gustav Baldamus, illustrated by Eugen Schmidhauser. Magliaso: Ceresio publishing house 1906.
• Rudolf Fastenrath: New Germany's poets' treasure: leaves and flowers from the works of German, Austrian and Swiss poets of the present. Magliaso: Publishing bookshop Ceresio 1910.

literature

• Karl Steuble: Home and Poetry . In: Innerrhoder Geschichtsfreund, 27, 1983, p. 41f.
• Plinio Grossi: Il Malcantone. Lugano-Pregassona: Edizioni Edelweiss 1984, pp. 35-40.
• Appenzeller Zeitung from December 4, 2000.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Rudolf Fastenrath. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 28, 2005 , accessed August 13, 2020 .

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