Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz - (* September 24, 1878 in Lausanne, † May 23 1947 in Pully ) was a Swiss writer, poet, essayist and national poet and is considered as the most important representative of the Swiss Literature in French.
Life
Ramuz was born the son of a grocer and later wine-merchant. After the Collège classique he attended high school and was in 1896 to enroll in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne. The decision to become a poet, he summed up in a six-month stay in Karlsruhe.
In 1900 he stayed in Paris for the first time in order to continue his studies. In 1904 he moved to Paris to write a thesis on the poet Maurice de Guérin. However, he gave up on this project and worked in Paris as a poet. There he met his wife, the painter Cécile Cellier, whom he married in 1913. From this marriage the daughter Marianne emerged. 1914 Ramuz left Paris and moved with his family back to the Swiss Lausanne.
Work
Ramuz published numerous works and has received many awards for his work, including the 1936 Grand Prize of the Swiss Schiller Schiller Foundation.
His work Histoire du Soldat was set to music by Igor Stravinsky. In this version set to music and a narrator reads the performers dance and / or acting. The novel Derborence, which is based on the events around the landslide in the basin of Derborence in 1714, 1985 filmed by Francis Reusser the same title. Farinet ou la fausse monnaie served on forger Joseph- Samuel Farinet 1938 as a template for the film Farinet ou l'or dans la montagne by Max Haufler, Si le soleil ne pas revenait 1987 for the eponymous film by Claude Goretta.
C.-F. Ramuz is mapped to the current two- hundred -franc note.
According to him, the Grand Prix was C.-F. Ramuz named.
Works ( in German )
Single
- The Soldier's Tale. Read played and danced in two parts. Free paraphrase of Hans Reinhart. Lesezirkel Hottingen, Zurich 1924 L' histoire du soldat - The Soldier's Tale. With Documents to the emergence of the factory and six figures. Using the free paraphrase of Hans Reinhart (1921 ) based on the final version of the French original (1946 ) retransmitted by Hans Rudolf Hilty and Erich Holliger into German. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1962 Histoire du Soldat - The Soldier's Tale. Translation from Mani Matter. Lesabéndio, Bern 1991, ISBN 3-905498-00-6
- Revision as: the separation of the races. Novel. Translation of Hanno Helbling. Folk and World, Berlin 1985
- Revision as: The great fear in the mountains. Novel. Translation of Hanno Helbling. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-312-00445-4
- Revision as: The beauty on earth. Novel. Ullsteinhaus, Frankfurt am Main 1986
- Edition, translated by Hanno Helbling. Limmat, Zurich, 1986; 2003, ISBN 3-85791-440-8
- Revision as: Derborence. Novel. Translation of Hanno Helbling. Limmat, Zurich, 1987; 2003, ISBN 3-85791-439-4
- Revision as: The young Savoyard. Suhrkamp ( BS 7 ), Berlin 1952 Revision as: The Savoyard boy. Limmat, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-85791-168-9
- Revision as: If the sun is not coming back. Novel. German by Werner John Guggenheim. Union Verlag, Zurich 1982
- Re: Huber, Frauenfeld 1983
- Edition, translated by Trude Fein: Huber, Frauenfeld 1984
- Edition, translated by Yvonne and Herbert Meier: Limmat, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-85791-113-1
- Expanded new edition as: Pastorale and other stories. Diogenes, Zurich 1963 Revision as: Pastorale. From the French by Peter Sidler. Limmat, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85791-211-1
- Expanded new edition as: Diary 1896-1947. Huber, Frauenfeld 1982
Werkausgaben
- Collected Works. With the collaboration of the author published by Albert Baur. 3 volumes. Rhine, Basel 1921 Volume 1: The expiation in the fire. Poems and short stories
- Volume 2: The regiment of evil. novel
- Volume 3: It happened characters. novel
- Volume 1: Aline, 1972
- Volume 2: Aimé Pache, a Vaudois painter, 1976
- Volume 3: The Reign of Evil, 1974
- Volume 4: The Beauty of the Earth, 1973
- Volume 5: The big Sonderbundskrieg, 1978
- Volume 6: reason of existence, 1975