Ursula Isler

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Ursula Lislott Isler , née Hungerbühler (born March 6, 1923 in Zurich ; † March 12, 2007 in Küsnacht near Zurich ) was a Zurich writer .

Life

Ursula Isler was born as the second of three children to Emma and Otto Hungerbühler-Jucker. The mother was the daughter of an industrialist from the Tösstal, the father a lawyer with his own legal practice and a Zurich government councilor. The family moved from Zurich to Küsnacht on Lake Zurich in 1931 and lived for three generations in a historic house ("Grebelhäuser" on Hornweg). There Ursula met old Meinrad Lienert , Swiss homeland poet, who inspired her to write. Her older brother died as a child, and her father died when she was thirteen. She and her younger sister Rosemarie attended the Hohe Promenade high school and both studied in Zurich.

Ursula studied art history and journalism at the University of Zurich . In 1947, while still at university, she married Werner Isler, the doctor and later university professor and neuropediatrician at the Children's Hospital in Zurich . In 1948 she received her doctorate from Gotthard Jedlicka with a thesis on the rural rococo painter Stöffi Kuhn von Rieden. Between 1949 and 1954 she had three children (Dorothee, Tobias, Salome).

She began her journalistic work with the Zurich student and on various daily newspapers, became a feature section employee at the St. Galler Tagblatt and worked as an art critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung until 1995 .

She has received various awards for her literary work. She received the honorary gift of the Swiss Schiller Foundation (1961), the recognition award of the city of Zurich (1967/1975/1989/1992) and honorary gifts from the canton of Zurich (1980/1985). In 1992 she was awarded the culture prize by her home community Küsnacht.

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  • The Kuhn von Rieden family of painters. Dissertation. ( Communications from the Antiquarian Society in Zurich , Cantonal Society for History and Archeology in the Swiss National Museum .) Volume 36, Issue 2; Zurich 1951.
  • The painters from Schloss Laufen. Rascher Verlag, Zurich 1953.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn , founder of Swiss art history. ( Communications from the antiquarian society in Zurich, Volume 39); Schulthess Verlag, Zurich 1956.
  • Zurich silk primer. Zurich 1957. A study of the silk industry society. With illustrations by Margarete Lipps.
  • The memorial. Th. Gut, Stäfa 1959/1994.
  • In this house. Th. Gut, Stäfa 1960 / 2003. (This book received a prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation.)
  • Portrait of a contemporary. Th. Gut, Stäfa 1962.
  • The snake in the grass. Th. Gut, Stäfa 1965.
  • Nadine, a trip. Artemis, Zurich / Stuttgart 1967. (This book received the recognition award from the city of Zurich.)
  • The man from Nineveh. Rodana Verlag, Zurich 1971.
  • Landscape with rainbow. Werner Classen, Zurich / Stuttgart 1975. (This book received the recognition award from the city of Zurich.)
  • Queen of Spades and other guests. Stories. Werner Classen, Zurich / Stuttgart 1979. (This novel received an honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich.)
  • Madame Schweizer (née Hess). From the life of a beautiful Zurich banker's wife in the 18th century. Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1982.
  • Nanny von Escher , the young lady. NZZ-Verlag, Zurich 1983.
  • Women from Zurich. Six portraits of women. NZZ-Verlag, Zurich 1991. (This book became the author's only bestseller.)
  • The ruins of Zurich. pendo-Verlag, Zurich 1985. (This novel received an honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich.)
  • A picture for Enderlin. Stories. pendo-Verlag, Zurich 1989. (This book received the recognition award of the city of Zurich.)
  • The artist and his forger. pendo-Verlag, Zurich 1992. (This book received the recognition award from the city of Zurich.)
  • A feast for Orwell. Roman from England. pendo-Verlag, Zurich 1997.
  • The neighbor. Novel of a crime. Th. Gut, Stäfa 2000.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Ursula Isler in: Zwischenzeilen: Writers of German Switzerland , by Elsbeth Pulver, Sybille Dallach, Zytglogge, 1989, page 188
personal data
SURNAME Isler, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isler, Ursula Lislott (full name); Hungerbühler (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2007
Place of death Küsnacht ZH