Herbert Meier
Herbert Meier ( born August 29, 1928 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss writer and translator.
Life
Herbert Meier completed a degree in literature, art history and philosophy at the universities of Basel, Vienna and Fribourg. At the University of Freiburg, he received his doctorate in 1954 with a thesis on the plays Ernst Barlach to the doctor of philosophy and then worked as a teacher and lecturer in Paris and Poitiers. After his return to Switzerland, he made a drama school in Basel and worked as a playwright and actor in theater in Biel. Since 1955 he is established as a freelance writer in Zurich. From 1977 to 1982 Meier was head dramaturg of the Zurich Schauspielhaus; 1994 to 1998 he hosted the broadcast on Swiss television Sternstunde philosophy.
Herbert Meier is primarily a playwright; However, he also wrote novels, poetry and essays. An important part of his work form next to numerous translations of both classic and modern pieces, mainly from the French.
He is a member of the Swiss German PEN Centre and the Association of Authors of Switzerland.
Awards and honors
Works
- Ejiawanoko, Zurich, 1953 ( together with Hermann Eggmann )
- The bark of Gawdos, Zurich 1954
- The dramas Barlach, Nuremberg 1954
- Poems and fairy tales, Zurich 1954
- Herodias danced yet, Zurich 1956
- Pleiades, Zurich 1956
- To the unknown God, Zurich 1956
- Jonah and the mink, Zurich 1958
- The end of September, 1959 Einsiedeln
- The Hidden God, Nuremberg 1963
- Affinities, Einsiedeln 1963
- Scorpions, Einsiedeln 1964
- With the language live, Nuremberg, 1965 ( together with Heimito of Doderer and Joseph Miihlberger )
- Emperor Jovian, Kassel -Wilhelm height 1966
- The new human is neither right nor left, he goes, Zurich 1969
- Sequences, Zurich 1969
- Stiefelchen, Zurich 1970
- Pastoral history, Zurich 1971
- Where to go now?, Zurich 1971
- Anatomical stories, Zurich 1973
- From the culture, Zurich 1973
- Stauffer -Bern, Frauenfeld 1975
- Braker, Zurich 1978
- Ophelia, Kassel 1983
- The happy scientist, Frankfurt am Main 1984
- Life is a dream, Frankfurt am Main 1987
- Myths play, Munich 1991
- Theater, Munich: 1 Swiss pieces, 1993
- 2 The bark of Gawdos. Jonah and the mink. Raven games. In Manesseplatz, 1993
- 3 The Divine. Beat the lute. The happy scientist. Life is a Dream, 1993
Libretti
- Emperor Jovian. Opera. Music ( 1964-66 ): Rudolf Kelterborn. UA: March 4, 1967 Karlsruhe ( State Theatre )
- Ophelia. Opera. Music (1982 /83): Rudolf Kelterborn. UA: 1985 Berlin ( German Opera )
Editorship
- Enrique Beck: About Lorca, Basel 1981
- Federico García Lorca, Frankfurt am Main 1986 ( along with Pedro Ramírez )
Translations
- Francisco José Alcántara: If everything goes wrong, Einsiedeln, 1957 ( translated together with Alfredo Bäschlin )
- Luigi Barzini: Beijing - Paris in sixty days, Einsiedeln 1958
- Paul Claudel: The Satin Slipper, Einsiedeln 2003
- Giuseppe Dessi: The ransom, Olten 1962
- Euripides: Medea, Zurich 1981
- Ben Jonson: Volpone, Basel 1985 ( translated together with Yvonne Meier )
- Guy de Larigaudie: The Song of the islands and seas, Basel, 1958 ( translated together with Yvonne Meier )
- Federico García Lorca: Tragicomedy of Don Cristobal and the Doña Rosita, Frankfurt am Main 1992
- Andri Peer: Poesias, Disentis / Muster 1988
- Luigi Pirandello: to oneself find, Berlin ( Dahlem ), 2000 (translated together with Yvonne Meier )
- Charles Ferdinand Ramuz: Aline, Jean -Luc the persecuted, Samuel Belet, Frauenfeld, 1972 ( translated together with Yvonne Meier )
- Georges Schehadé: The Story of Vasco, Frankfurt am Main 1958