Ruth Blum

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Ruth Blum (born September 2, 1913 in Wilchingen , Canton Schaffhausen , † August 2, 1975 in Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss author and teacher .

Life

Ruth Blum was the daughter of a master tailor. She grew up in Klettgau and began studying pedagogy , which she broke off. She then worked in various jobs, including as a maid , saleswoman and cleaning lady ; in addition, she provided journalistic articles for Swiss newspapers. With her first novel Blue Sky - Green Earth , which was based on her childhood and youth experiences in Klettgau, she achieved a success with the readership. However, after she had not succeeded in making writing her livelihood with the following works, she completed a second attempt at the teachers' college in Schaffhausen in 1949/50. From 1951 to 1961 she worked as a primary school teacher in Schaffhausen . She retired early because of cancer . In the following years she was active again in literature and wrote a number of successful, autobiographical books.

Ruth Blum's work includes novels and short stories . Among other things, she received the literary prize of the city of Schaffhausen in 1955 , a total works prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation (3,000 francs ) in 1965 and the Georg Fischer Prize in 1971 .

Works

  • Blue sky, green earth , Frauenfeld [u. a.] 1941
  • Solstice , Frauenfeld [u. a.] 1944
  • The crowned summer , Frauenfeld 1945
  • The Last Supper , Frauenfeld 1947
  • Der Gottesstrauch , Frauenfeld 1953
  • Schaffhauser Heimat , Schaffhausen 1955 (together with Otto Ühlinger)
  • And a quarrel arose , Zurich [u. a.] 1964
  • Like frost in the country , Zurich [u. a.] 1964
  • The Advent game from the money bag , Zurich [u. a.] 1965
  • The fool's cap , Schaffhausen 1965
  • My fire face , Zurich [u. a.] 1967
  • The gray stones , Schaffhausen 1971, new edition, Zurich 2018, with an afterword by Mirjam Herrmann
  • And always eager for old things , Schaffhausen 1974
  • The sickle , Schaffhausen 1975
  • School years , Schaffhausen 1976

literature

  • Kurt Bächtold: Ruth Blum . Verlag Peter Meili, Schaffhausen 1981, ISBN 3-85805-065-2 .
  • Kurt Bächtold: Ruth Blum . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 35–41 ( PDF; 343 kB )
  • Helen Brügger: "We used to offer our mouths, today our foreheads". In: WOZ, Die Wochenzeitung, No. 32/2013 of August 8, 2013
  • Andreas Schön: Messages about Ruth Blum . In: " Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance ", Volume 32/33, page 239f, Singen (Hohentwiel), December 1976
  • H. Steiner: In memory of the writer Ruth Blum . In: Schaffhauser Nachrichten . 114. Vol. 182 of August 9, 1975, pp. 9-11

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personal data
SURNAME Blum, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss author
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilchingen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1975
Place of death Schaffhausen