Rudolf Peyer

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Rudolf Peyer (born March 2, 1929 - † November 4, 2017 in Reinach BL ) was a Swiss writer and translator.

Life

Rudolf Peyer went to school in Olten and attended the teachers' seminar in Solothurn from 1945 to 1949 . After working as a teacher for two years, he studied German, history, psychology and Romance languages ​​in Innsbruck, Zurich, Basel, Florence and Paris. It was there in 1957 that his friendship with Paul Celan began . He was a member of the “Théâtre d'Animation” for some time and took part in a tour through Scandinavia, where he met Nelly Sachs in Stockholm , with whom he later exchanged intense letters. From 1961 he was a teacher at Mexican schools, including the German school "Alexander von Humboldt". From 1965 onwards he worked as a teacher in Switzerland. Extensive trips and stays took him to North Africa and North and South America; He spent a total of twenty years abroad, where some of his books were published, for example the Cinco poemas de amor . The author worked as a translator, among other things, he has received numerous Swiss literary awards and his texts have been translated into seven languages. He undertook reading tours in Latin America (among others on behalf of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia ). Peyer lived temporarily in Spain and most recently in Reinach / BL.

Literary work

There is no novel in Rudolf Peyer's work; he wrote short stories and poetry. Some forms of his short prose are comparable to that of his compatriot Peter Bichsel , the subjects are mostly different. Many motifs arose from his stays in Latin America. In his Mexican Notes Bis unter die Haut (1976), the “immediacy of the relationship between man and nature is circled” . The lines between life and death seem to be blurring in these prose pieces.

His last book is entitled Störfall (2004). The texts cannot be assigned to any literary genre; they are a combination of aphorism and poem, the book subtitle is "Aphorisms, thoughts, sayings". As early as 1979 the author had begun “to collect critical findings from the most diverse areas of society and to condense them into concise miniatures.” Peyer wrote that modern civilization was a “world of disruptions”, some of which he wrote down: “Unusual, Excessive, generally binding, senseless, nonsensical, provocative, imaginary, private, real, surreal, excellent, monstrous. "

Quote

Love poem in winter
"You / again / your eyebrows / draw with coal / so that there is a horizon / over so much / emptiness."
Alternative
"With unwritten poems / sharpen your hearing / for lark songs / in winter."

Works

  • Accidents . Nimrod, Zurich 2004. ISBN 3-907149-25-4
  • Cuerpo a Cuerpo / With skin and hair. 100 poemas de amor en 40 anos / 100 love poems from 40 years . Bilingual. Editora Abril, La Habana (Cuba) 2002
  • Inca countries tell. Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador . (Editor). Diederichs, Munich 1993. ISBN 3-424-01193-2
  • Mexico tells. From the Maya and Aztecs to the present day. Changed new edition . Diederichs, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-424-01133-9
  • With skin and hair. Love and erotic poems . Book press Gerlafingen, Gerlafingen 1989. ISBN 3-905212-01-3
  • Evenings with Engelhardt. Stories . Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1986. ISBN 3-7608-0684-8
  • Stone script. Poems and lyric prose . Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1983. ISBN 3-7608-0611-2
  • Streaks of wind. Poems and lyric prose. Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1979. ISBN 3-7608-0512-4
  • Mexico tells. From the Maya and Aztecs to the present day . (Editor). Erdmann, Tübingen and Basel. ISBN 3-7711-0294-4
  • Right under the skin. Mexican notes . Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1976. ISBN 3-7608-0404-7
  • Next door. Stories . Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1974. ISBN 3-7608-0372-5
  • Invalid and contestable resolutions of the general meeting of the stock corporation . Weiss, Affoltern am Albis 1944

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Critical lexicon for contemporary German-language literature - KLG
  2. ↑ Jürgen Egyptien (ibid.)
  3. ↑ In: Störfalls . Zurich 2004
  4. ↑ Quoted from: Peter von Matt and Dirk Vaihinger (editors): The most beautiful poems of Switzerland . Munich and Vienna 2002
  5. ↑ Quoted from Windstriche . Zurich and Munich 1979
personal data
SURNAME Peyer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Olten
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2017
Place of death Reinach BL