Albin Zollinger

Albin Zollinger ( born January 24, 1895 in Zurich, † November 7, 1941 in Zurich ) was a Swiss writer.

Life

Albin Zollinger was born in 1895 the son of a precision mechanic and grew up in Ruti ZH and in Argentina, where his parents wanted to build a new life in vain. He attended the Küsnachter teacher seminar and received by many job changes in Oerlikon a permanent position, which he retained until his death. In 1921 he published his first novel.

Everything Zollinger wrote - novels, short stories, poems, essays, articles, reviews, letters - was next to his work as a teacher, active duty, public involvement in the Swiss Union of Writers, his work as executive editor first in the Bernese cultural magazine "Die Zeit", then the weekly paper " The nation" and in spite of family crises and depressions. His marriage ended in divorce after a few years.

Preferably, he wrote in Zurich coffee houses wherever he went each of Oerlikon after school by tram. Almost legendary in the 30s was his marble tables in the café terrace. He was often seen in the company of other Zurich literary and cultural workers, such as the literature professor Fritz Ernst, the literary critic Bernhard Diebold, his friend Traugott Vogel or Rudolf Jakob Humm. Even with Ludwig Hohl he was a friend.

Three weeks before his death at the age of only 46 years, met Zollinger on the panhandle to the young writer Max Frisch, who held this encounter in his diary from 1946 to 1949.

Zollinger is buried in an honorary grave in the cemetery Nordheim. His estate is managed by the Central Library of Zurich. In Oerlikon there is a Albin Zollinger- place since 1980.

Works

• The gardens of the King. Novel, 1921
• The half human. Novel, 1929
• Poems. 1933
• Early star. Poems, 1936
• Silence of autumn. Poems, 1939
• House of Life. Poems, 1939
• The great unrest. Novel, 1939
• Pfannenstiel. The story of a sculptor. Novel, 1940
• Bohnenblust or Educators. Novel, 1941
• The Frösch Lacher cuckoo. Life and deeds of a town in twenty adventures. 1941