Albert J. Welti

Jacob Albert Welti ( born October 11, 1894 in Zurich - Hoengg; † 5 December 1965 Amriswil ) was a Swiss writer and painter.

Life

As the son of the painter Albert Welti Albert Welti Jacob was trained as an artist. He studied at the art academies of Dusseldorf, Munich, London and Madrid. At a young age he lost both parents in a wide Munich 1911 until his mother, his father died in 1912 in Bern. A severe case of typhoid in the Balearic Islands at the beginning of the twenties was the turning point from painting to writing.

Back in Switzerland, he chose Conches in Geneva at his workplace. Maroto and his king, a historical drama, created (1922 ), then Servetus in Geneva ( 1930). At the 1939 National Exhibition in Zurich dialect drama Steibruch was extremely successful premiere and later made ​​into a movie. It was not until almost fifty years appeared Albert J. Welti's first novel: When Puritans are young (1941 ); He was followed by the playing in the politically and socially highly agitated Geneva second novel Martha and the sons of no one (1948 ). The critical survey of Switzerland's presence, he continued in a series of extensive and idiosyncratic novels.

In a number of essays and speeches Welti related to cultural, literary and political issues of his time position. All these big and small jobs deported him as a commentator of high intellectual independence. The last work, image of the Father (1962 ) is a sensitive portrait of the artist, which finally put him with the father on a plane. Among other novels and plays, this author has also written some stories and radio plays, where the dialect often came to the course.

Albert J. Welti was supported by the Swiss Schiller Foundation with several honors and single -factory prices (1931, 1942 and 1948) and 1954 winner of the oeuvre prize for his dramatic work. 1933-65 he was on the board of the company Swiss playwright, 1946-51 he stood in front of her as president.

The estate of Welti is located in the Swiss Literary Archives, Bern.

Albert J. Welti was a grandson of the transporter Jacob Albert Welti- Furrer, cousin of Arthur Welti, uncle of Philippe Welti and great-uncle 2nd degree Sophie Hunger

Works

A selection of the most important texts Albert J. Welti:

  • Decay ( 1920, unpublished )
  • Maroto and his king (1926; UA April 12, 1926, Stadttheater Basel)
  • The Devil's Contract (UA April 3, 1929, Stadttheater St. Gallen)
  • Servetus in Geneva (1930; UA November 7, 1931, Stadttheater Bern )
  • Bluebeard (1933; UA January 28, 1937, Schauspielhaus Zurich )
  • The Peace Child ( 1934)
  • Night of murder (1937; UA February 23, 1937 by the Free Theatre in Zurich Stadttheater Winterthur)
  • Steibruch (1939; UA May 7, 1939, Landi Zurich 1939)
  • Summer trip ( also: Miss Helvetia, 1941, UA November 4, 1941 by the Free Theatre in Zurich Schauspielhaus Zurich )
  • Vehicle 82793 (1942)
  • Superstition (1945, UA October 27, 1945, Schaffhausen )
  • Prince George and the choking humility (1947 )
  • It deficit or: Tue missverschtanden Abchürzig (1948 )
  • Ramon Lull (1949, UA November 28, 1951, Stadttheater St. Gallen)
  • But it has not had it easy (1950 )
  • Job of the winner (1954, UA March 3, 1955, Schauspielhaus Zurich )
  • Züriputsch ( 1961 arose 1938)
  • Thistle mustache (also: Schpiil killed Füür, UA Bern 1928)
  • Huusreuki ( festival for the 300th year anniversary of the guild Guildhall zur Waag Zurich, 1937)
  • Hie Schaffhausen! (1939; UA July 29, 1939, Landi Zurich 1939)
  • Ragazer Fountain Game (1939; UA June 8, 1968 in Bad Ragaz )
  • Helping forces ( 1945, UA June 2, 1945, Winterthur)
  • The Pass ( 1948)
  • Hans Büezer and the Muses (1948; UA July 8, 1948, Feast of the workers' choruses Geneva Switzerland in 1948. )
  • Schaffhauser Federal game ( UA August 13, 1951, Schaffhausen ).
  • If the Puritans are young (novel, Zurich 1941)
  • The Holy of Tenedo (story, Zürich1943 )
  • Martha and the sons of no one (novel, Zurich 1948)
  • The cool Virgin Hann Yvonne (novel, Zurich 1954)
  • The Dagger of Lucretia (novel, Zurich 1958)
  • Image of the Father ( Biography, Zurich 1962)
  • Louis XIV or office SOS ( radio play, studio Zurich 1941)
  • Steibruch ( radio play version in five episodes, Studio Zurich February 3, 1942 )
  • The Wolf dairy industry ( radio play, studio Bern 1943)
  • Night of murder ( radio play, studio Zurich, December 19, 1950)
  • Servetus in Geneva ( radio play, studio Bern October 15, 1953 )
  • The house to the changing moon ( Hörfolge, Studio Bern December 17, 1956 )
  • Design for the 5-piece mosaic in the church Doerfli at the Swiss National Exhibition in Bern in 1914 ( performed by Gottfried Kuenzi, Mosaist )
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