Ludwig Hohl
Ludwig Hohl ( born April 9, 1904 in Netstal, † November 3, 1980 in Geneva, home justified in Grub ) was a Swiss writer.
Life
Ludwig Hohl was the son of a pastor. He attended the district school in Frauenfeld, he had to leave early due to alleged bad influence on his classmates. Hollow refused to make vocational training and exercise a regular profession, and lived mostly in oppressive material conditions, for many years only a few of the money he got for the reproduction of small pieces in newspapers, as well as donations from friends. From 1924 to 1937 he stayed abroad: until 1930 in Paris, 1930/1931 in Vienna and from 1931 to 1937 in The Hague. Acquaintances from those years were about the photographer Heinrich Heidersberger and the writer Eduard Zak, Albin Zollinger and Rudolf Jakob Humm.
After his return to Switzerland in 1937, he lived first in Biel, then in Geneva, in the years 1954 to 1975 in a basement apartment in the working-class neighborhood of La Jonction. In his youth he was an avid mountaineer, and even in later years, he laid emphasis on regular physical exercises. Both he reflected in his work, as well as the excessive alcohol consumption, which he wanted to use to increase its productivity. He was married five times - including the painter Hanny Fries - and had a daughter. In his last years, improved its financial position, but he suffered from several illnesses and died in 1980 from an inflammatory disease of the legs. He is buried in the Cimetière des Rois in Geneva, as well as his last wife, Madeleine hollow - de Weiss ( 1916-1993 ).
Success and widespread recognition as a writer were denied hollow. Several of his works he published, self-published. Publication of the second volume of the notes (see below) he had the Artemis -Verlag court force: This had refused for several years after the commercial failure of the first bands to publish the " unsellable " work. Although authors such as Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt guessed it, it was only towards the end of his life to a certain Findings of the institutions of the literary establishment. Through a hint of Adolf Siegfried Unseld was Muschg, the Suhrkamp publishing director, attentive to hollow the early 70's and traded with him (new ) edition of his works from. 1970 and 1976 hollow received prizes of Swiss Schiller Foundation, 1978 once conferred on the 100th birthday of Robert Walser Robert Walser Centenar Prize and in 1980 the Petrarch Prize, with Peter Handke gave a eulogy. Nevertheless, all the titles of hollow Suhrkamp are again out of print for some time and therefore only available second hand available for interested readers today. Hohls estate is located in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. The Ludwig Hohl foundation based in Zurich takes care of the maintenance site development, research and raise awareness of his work.
His extraordinary and contradictory life gave rise to some legend formations in which he partly also participated himself. Peter Bichsel warned in 1969, the hollow was " caught in the fatal situation of secrets ."
Work
As his main narrative work applies ascent, which he had begun in 1926 and revised in the following decades several times. It was not published until 1975. The narrative describes the attempt of two very different young men to climb a mountain, and can be interpreted as a parable.
A little known as his narrative works are a series of writings in which an unconventional way philosophical questions are discussed in notes like form. But hollow insisted that the alleged aphorisms communicate with each other in a narrow context. These include the writings nuances and details, the notes and it took nearly everything is different.
In the current work as the main book 's notes or from the hollow unvoreiligen reconciliation has chosen as a mold for his literary- philosophical work, a genre-crossing mixture. Aphorism, treatise, short prose, poem, quote: Everything combines to create an open system of writing with still form and content matched texts in twelve parts ( with headings such as " From Work ", " From writing ", " From Death ", etc.) together. With an unusual radicalism he describes is the creative "work" of the individual, in knowledge and action form a unit, as the meaning of life. The mass of people who do not work in this way - often personified in hollow as "the pharmacist " or " Mr. Meier " - he overlaid with polemics and acrid derision. From the records to a second similar plant hollow yet the book was fact that almost everything is different out. More Records from this circle of ideas, which were under the title Nachnotizen or from the collapsing borders were posthumously issue.
In his works he often quoted the few esteemed by him authors and thinkers: especially Goethe, Lichtenberg, Montaigne and Spinoza. One of Hohls concern was to give the reader a novel approach to classics. He once said that he did not presume to do things that were already said very good ( written ) to try to formulate better think again. Among the writers he praised about Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Karl Kraus and Katherine Mansfield.
Works
- Poems. Self- Verlag, Konstanz, 1925.
- Nuances and details I and II Oprecht, Zurich 1939.
- III. With a memorial word for Albin Zollinger. Self-published, Geneva, 1942. New editions in one volume: Walter, Olten 1964, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1975.
- New edition. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1971 edition: ibid, 1986, ISBN 3-518-01292-4 ( Bibliothek Suhrkamp, Vol 292).
- More New Edition: with the drawings and a double portrait photo of the two. Strauhof, Zurich 2004.
- Volume 1: I.-VI. Part. Artemis, Zurich 1944.
- Volume 2: VII -XII. Part. Artemis, Zurich 1954. New edition in one volume: Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1981; in paperback: ibid 1984, ISBN 3-518-37500-8 ( paperback suhrkamp, Vol 1000).