Silja Walter

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Silja Walter , religious name : Sr. M. Hedwig OSB (* Cécile Walter on April 23, 1919 in Rickenbach near Olten ; † January 31, 2011 in Fahr Monastery ) was a Swiss Benedictine woman and writer .

Life

Silja Walter was the second of eight daughters of the publisher, writer and national councilor Otto Walter . The only brother was the writer Otto F. Walter . From 1933 to 1938 she attended the Bernarda teacher training college in Menzingen . The subsequent study of literature at the University of Freiburg , later at the University of Basel , she had to break off for health reasons. In 1944 she published her first poems.

In 1948 she entered the Fahr Monastery. On October 11, 1949, she made her first vows and received the religious name Sister Maria Hedwig . Silja Walter published over 60 works. In addition to numerous lyrical works, she also wrote mystery plays and plays. A complete edition of her writings and her autobiography Das dreifarbene Meer has been published by Paulusverlag . She died at the age of 91 in Fahr Monastery. Part of her estate is in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern .

Awards

Silja Walter's work has won several prizes, such as the Literature Prize and Culture Prize of the City of Zurich, twice (1956 and 1992) the Complete Works Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation and the Art Prize of the Canton of Solothurn . She was an honorary citizen of Rickenbach, Würenlos and Mümliswil-Ramiswil .

Works

Individual issues (selection)

  • The first poems . Ilion, Olten 1944
  • Poems . Arche, Zurich 1950
    • New, expanded edition as Gesammelte Gedichte : Arche, Zurich 1972
  • Wettinger star singing game . Arche, Zurich 1955
  • It sings the holy midnight . Arche, Zurich 1956
  • The approaching resurrection . Narrative. Arche, Zurich 1960
  • Beors Balaam's Christmas . Narrative. Arche, Zurich 1961
  • They are waiting for the city. A Pentecost story . Arche, Zurich 1963
  • The fish and bar Abbas . Narrative. Arche, Zurich 1967
  • The dance of obedience or the straw mat . Arche, Zurich 1970
  • The lock or abbeys made of glass. A novel . Arche, Zurich 1972
  • Jan, the crazy one. A game . Arche, Zurich 1978
  • Reputation and rule. Experiences of faith in the Benedictine monastery , Zurich 1980
    • Revised: The call from the garden . Paulusverlag, Friborg 1995
  • Find an island. Conversation with Otto F. Walter . Moderated by Philippe Dätwyler. Arche, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7160-5004-0
  • The fire dove. New poems. For my brother . Arche, Zurich 1985
  • I want to sing your secret from the rooftops. Meditations . Walter, Olten and Freiburg im Breisgau 1985, ISBN 3-530-92302-8
  • Communion psalter. For all Sundays and holidays in the church year . With a foreword by Bernardin Schellenberger . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1985, ISBN 3-451-20492-4
  • Full of singing fire. A selection from her works . Compiled and introduced by Elisabeth Antkowiak. St. Benno, Leipzig 1990
  • The cloud tree. My childhood in the old house . Walter, Olten 1991; Paulusverlag, Friborg 2007, ISBN 3-7228-0723-9
  • Confession under the sign of the fish. A spiritual diary . Paulusverlag, Friborg 1999; as paperback 2005, ISBN 3-7867-8558-9
  • The ferry lies down on the beach. A reader. (Ed. by Klara Obermüller ). Arche, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-7160-2254-3
  • I found my island. Secret in everyday life . Diary. Paulusverlag, Friborg 2006, ISBN 3-7228-0696-8
  • He plucked them from the tree of life. A Benedictine diary . Foreword by Martin Werlen . Paulusverlag, Friborg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7228-0747-8
  • The three-colored sea. My salvation story - a biography . Paulusverlag, Friborg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7228-0760-7
  • The Queen's Comb. Little novel . Paulusverlag, Friborg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7228-0806-2
  • To dance means to rise again. Last diary . Paulusverlag, Friborg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7228-0807-9

Selected poems

  • In the rain (The day is pale from the rain) , 1962
  • The daphne (the daphne weighs in the forest), 1962
  • A big city comes into being , 1966

Complete edition

Published by Ulrike Wolitz in Paulusverlag, Friborg:

  • Volume 1: Early Poems, Texts, Stories and Games , 1999
  • Volume 2: Monastic Work , 2000
  • Volume 3: Dramatics I. Drama, radio plays, monodrama , 2000
  • Volume 4: Drama II. Mystery Games, Part 1 , 2001
  • Volume 5: Drama III. Mystery Games , Part 2 , 2002
  • Volume 6: Prose I , 2001
  • Volume 7: Prose II , 2006
  • Volume 8: Poetry , 2003
  • Volume 9: Spirituality I , 2004
  • Volume 10: Spirituality II , 2005

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Summary of the autobiography (PDF; 133 kB) ( Memento from November 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ wuerenlos.ch: wuerenlosernachrichten1-2009.pdf (application / pdf-Objekt; 6.1 MB) , accessed on September 16, 2011
  3. ↑ Poet Silja Walter dies at the age of 91 in Fahr Monastery in: nachrichten.ch from January 31, 2011
  4. ↑ Silja Walter is dead ; in: Tages-Anzeiger from January 31, 2011
  5. ↑ wuerenlos.ch: wuerenlosernachrichten1-2009.pdf (application / pdf-Objekt; 6.1 MB) , accessed on September 16, 2011
  6. ↑ wuerenlos.ch: wuerenlosernachrichten1_2011.pdf (application / pdf-Objekt; 10.8 MB) , accessed on September 16, 2011
  7. ↑ a b Poem from: Hans Bender (Ed.), Contradiction. German poetry since 1945 , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1962, without ISBN
  8. ↑ "Thoughts on the work of Silja Walter OSB" ( memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Sankt Ottilien, accessed on January 31, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Silja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter, Maria Hedwig (religious name); Walter, Cécile (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Benedictine nun and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Rickenbach near Olten
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2011
Place of death Fahr Monastery