Tina Truog-Saluz

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Tina Truog-Saluz (born December 10, 1882 in Chur ; † March 25, 1957 there ) was a Swiss publicist , writer and poet .

life and work

Tina Truog-Saluz was the daughter of the Engadin civil and railway engineer and later Chur canton chief engineer Peter Otto († 1914) and Cornelia, née Schulthess. This was the sister of Edmund Schulthess and Wilhelm Schulthess .

Tina Truog-Saluz spent the first five years of her life with her two sisters in Chur. When the father took on a new job in Bern , the family lived in Bern for several years. She graduated from primary and secondary school in Bern. She spent the summer holidays in her father's parents' house, the “Casa Saluz” in Baselgias, in Lavin . Tina Truog-Saluz had suffered from respiratory diseases since her youth and was often bedridden as a result.

After the family moved back to Chur, they were confirmed by Leonhard Ragaz . Ragaz also shaped her religious awareness and her later social commitment. Tina Truog-Saluz attended the teachers' seminar in Chur and graduated successfully in 1901. After doing an internship at the high school in Geneva for a year, she lived for a long time in Florence, where she maintained close contact with the Bündner and Engeadinder who lived there.

In 1906 Tina Truog-Saluz married the Chur chemist and co-owner of the “Drogerie zum Raben” Werner Gaudenz Leonhard Truog. Through her marriage she became a citizen of Schiers , Grüsch and Chur. Their only child, Gaudenz Otto, was born in 1908. He later married Emma, ​​née Juvalta, who grew up in Bergün and Celerina . In 1940 Tina Truog-Saluz became a grandmother.

Tina Truog-Saluz spent the winter months in her brother-in-law's house on Loësstrasse in Chur and the summer months in Lavin. Later the family lived for some time in the residential wing of the former "Hotel Steinbock", today's "Hotel Chur". During the Second World War , the family lived in Lavin for a long time, where they often met with their friend Silva Peer-Wieser, who lived there. She was the mother of Andri Peer and Oscar Peer . In Lavin, she also had contact with Peider Lansel, who was occasionally in Lavin, and probably also with the pastor and writer Schimun Vonmoos (1868–1940) from Ramosch, who was his close friend .

After Tina Truog-Saluz was able to publish her short stories in local newspapers in 1918, writing became increasingly important for her in 1920 and various novel drafts were created. The mothers and motherly acting women became central figures in her later texts. Tina Truog-Saluz, as a dominant woman and author, wrote reviews on new Swiss book publications a. a. in Das Bücherblatt and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . She was also a member of the Swiss Writers' Association (SSV) and also maintained contact with the culturally committed women in the “Swiss Lyceum Club” (Lyceum de Suisse) founded in Geneva in 1914.

Tina Truog-Saluz experienced her first successful novel in 1920 with Peider Andri . This was published by Friedrich Reinhardt , with whom she was on friendly terms , as was the publisher Ida Frohnmeyer . In the following years she had published another twelve novels and four volumes of short stories in the Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag and was one of the most famous authors in Switzerland from 1920 to 1960, also thanks to her assertiveness and the renowned publisher.

Tina Truog-Saluz collected numerous Romanesque books, furniture and folk art. She drew her in-depth knowledge for her novels from history books, chronicles, writings on national culture and conversations with friends of historians. In Chur, she and her husband maintained close contacts with historians and those interested in history in the “Historical Society”. You were u. a. friends with Erwin Poeschl , the canton school professor and historian Friedrich Pieth , the canton school professor and Germanist Paul Brunner and pastor and genealogist Bertogg from Trin . Tina Truog-Saluz works are regarded as important source material in Engadin folklore research.

Tina Truog-Saluz was committed to improving the living situation of working women through childcare options, helping women as part of the station mission, improving the training of women in traditional professions and educating family women on health issues. Tina Truog-Saluz was involved in the Protestant parish in Chur from 1923 and was president of the Bündner Frauenverein from 1927 to 1933.

In 1936 Tina Truog-Saluz received the honorary gift of 1,000 Swiss francs from the Swiss Schiller Foundation . On the occasion of her 70th birthday, Lavin, her father's home parish, granted her honorary citizenship .

Most of the largely unpublished poems by Tina Truog-Saluz were written in 1952 and 1953.

Tina Truog-Saluz's last years of life were marked by numerous old age complaints and hospital stays. Tina Truog-Saluz died at the age of 75 on March 25, 1957 in the hospital of the old people's home. Her husband passed away nine weeks later. Tina Truog-Saluz's estate is managed by great-granddaughter Patricia Ursina Carl.

literature

  • Patricia Ursina Carl: In memory of the Graubünden writer. In: Bündner Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Graubünden, Vol. 43, 2001, pp. 91-101 ( digitized version , part 1 ).
  • Patricia Ursina Carl: In memory of the Graubünden writer Tina Truog-Saluz (1882–1957). In: Bündner Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Graubünden, Vol. 44, 2002, pp. 59–72 ( digitized version , part 2 ).
  • Patricia Ursina Carl: The Graubünden writer Tina Truog Saluz (1882–1957). Between tradition and enlightenment , Desertina Verlag, Chur 2007, ISBN 978-3-85637-343-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patricia Ursina Carl: Poems by Tina Truog-Saluz. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Truog-Saluz, Tina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist, writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1957
Place of death Chur