Theobald Baerwart

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Poem My Basel by Theobald Baerwart, the first stop on Dreyland-Dichterweg between Basel, Huningue and Weil am Rhein
Theobald-Baerwart school building with the St. Johanns ferry (2015)

Theobald Baerwart (officially Ludwig Theobald Bärwart; born May 14, 1872 in Basel , † October 5, 1942 in Liestal ) was a Swiss dialect poet .

Live and act

Theobald Baerwart grew up as the son of a master baker in Kleinbasel and graduated from the upper secondary school in 1891 . He began to study philology at the University of Zurich in the summer semester of 1892 , but left the university after the semester was over. In the same year he was the librarian of the newly formed International Club of Socialist Students. In the summer of 1894 he was a law student at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . But he finally dropped out. In 1895 he joined the Federal Customs Administration as a “provisional assistant” . He had to work in Les Verrières for several years due to a penalty transfer . He then worked in Basel again until his retirement in 1935, most recently as head of the “duty-free movement of goods” department.

Baerwart was active as a singer in the Basler Liedertafel, where he became an honorary member and Swiss veteran singer. He wrote Schnitzelbänke for the Basel Carnival , but also a song about Vogel Gryff . He was a superior and a clerk in the Bread Basin Guild . Finally he started to publish. In 1918 he published his first work, the Rosswiler Stories , in standard language. With the short story Uus em Glaibasel he switched to Basel German in 1921 . The subject of his poems and stories was the Basel petty bourgeoisie , which he described with love and irony. He also published plays. His texts developed language-educational effects in Basel. Baerwart was co-founder and secretary of the Basel section of the PEN club . He also worked for the Basel Lever Foundation .

Theobald Baerwart married Elsa Layh (1882–1967) from Karlsruhe in 1907. They had two daughters. From 1908 he lived in the Villa Tannhäuser in Bottmingen, which he had built . His urn is in the Hörnli cemetery . A secondary school in Kleinbasel (formerly the “am Rhein” school building) has been named after him since 1968 .

The social democrat Wilhelm Bärwart was his cousin.

Works (selection)

  • Rosswiler stories and more. Self-published, Basel 1918.
  • Uus em Glaibasel: Baseldytschi youth interior. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1921; 2nd, expanded edition 1926.
  • Sällmol: Basel chats. National-Zeitung, Basel 1926.
  • with Konrad Bänninger, Gottfried Bohnenblust: Festive year: poems to read. Rascher, Zurich / Leipzig / Stuttgart 1934.
  • In the diefscht Glaibasel: Chatting us the Juged. Brodbeck-Frehner, Basel 1935.
  • Maize whistle: Baseldytschi Värs. Wepf, Basel 1928; 2nd, extended edition: Brodbeck-Frehner, Basel 1936.
  • Missi, the hero in the duo fitting. Brodbeck-Frehner, Basel 1936.
  • My glaini Wält: Basler Chat. Brodbeck-Frehner, Basel 1938.
  • Dreivierlig ohni Bai: Basel chat. Brodbeck-Frehner, Basel 1941.
  • Sunnebligg: Baseldytschi Värs. Brodbeck-Frehner, Basel 1941.

Posthumous work edition:

  • In diefscht Glaibasel: Erscht Dail vo de gsammlete Wärgg. Pharos, Basel 1967.
  • My glaini Wält: The two Dail vo de gsammlete Wärgg. Pharos, Basel 1969.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Theobald Baerwart  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bärwart Theobald , Matrikeledition the University of Zurich, accessed on August 28, 2013.
  2. ^ Official directory of the staff and students of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. For the summer half-year from April 16 to August 15, 1894. Gustav Schade, Berlin 1894, p. 41 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Baerwart, Theobald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bärwart, Ludwig Theobald (official name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1942
Place of death Liestal