Albin Zollinger (* January 24 1895 in
Zürich; † November 7 1941 in
Zürich) was a Swiss writer.
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Albin Zollinger was born as a son of a precision machanic and grew up in Rüti, Zürich
and Argentinia, where his parents tried to find a secure existence for the family – without
avail. In Küsnacht he frequented the teacher’s seminar and got a permanent job after a lot of
job changes. He did this same job in Oerlikon, until he died. 1921, his first
novel came out.
All of Zollingers works, his novels, narratives, poems, essays, articles, reviews, letters... arose “secondary”. Secondary to
his work as a teacher, secondary to his military service, secondary to his public engagements in the Swiss Writer’s Club
SVV, secondary to his work as an editor at “Die Zeit” and later
“Nation” – Although he had a familiar crisis and depression (his marriage was divorced after a few years).
His preferred place to write were the village's cafés, where went to from Oerlikon per tram car, to go to school. Nearly
legendary was – during the 30ties – his little marmor table at the Café "Terrasse". There he met other Zürich writers, e.g.
literature professor Fritz Ernst, literatur reviewer Bernhard
Diebold, his friend Traugott Vogel or Rudolf Jakob Humm.
Three weeks before his death with 46, Zollinger met the young Max Frisch on the
Pfannenstiel. Frisch noted that meeting in his diary (“Tagebuch 1946-1949“).
Zollinger became an idol for him. Frisch wrote a book named „Bin oder die Reise nach Peking“ (literally: “Bin or the Journey to
Peking”) Readers ever wondered, what “Bin” means and some think, it must be the German 1st singular form of “being” (I AM = Ich
BIN). But Frisch once stated, that “Bin” actually meant the seldom short form of Albin, that isn’t a very widespread name and
that doesn't specially appear in the book.
Albin Zollinger rests buried in a honorary grave at the cemetery “Nordheim”. In Oerlikon There ist, since 1980, a place named
after him.
Albin Zollinger’s literary remains are administrated by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.
works
- Die Gärten des Königs, Roman, 1921 (literally: „The gardens of the king“)
- Der halbe Mensch, Roman, 1929 (literally: „The half man“)
- Gedichte, 1933 (literally: „Poems“)
- Sternfrühe, Gedichte, 1936 (literally: „bright and early“)
- Stille des Herbstes, Gedichte, 1939 (literally: „Silence of Fall“)
- Haus des Lebens, Gedichte, 1939 (literally: „House of Life“)
- Die große Unruhe, Roman, 1939 (literally: „The big Unrest“)
- Pfannenstiel. Die Geschichte eines Bildhauers' ', Roman, 1940 (literally: „Pfannenstiel. The Story of a
Sculptor“)
- Bohnenblust oder Die Erzieher, Roman, 1941 (literally: „Bean Blast or The Educators“)
- Der Fröschlacher Kuckuck. Leben und Taten einer Stadt in zwanzig Abenteuern, 1941 (literally: „The coocoo of
Fröschlach. life and acts of a city in twenty adventures“)
literature
- Isabelle Chopin: Albin Zollinger. Entre politique et poésie (1933-1939). Bern u.a.: Lang 2000. (= Contacts; Sér. 3,
Etudes et documents; 50) ISBN 3-906758-15-X
- Maria Adèle Hafner: Die Gestalt des Lehrers in Albin Zollingers Romanen "Pfannenstiel" und "Bohnenblust" und in E. Y.
Meyers Roman "Die Rückfahrt". Zürich: Bokos 1995.
- Thorbjörn Lengborn: Schriftsteller und Gesellschaft in der Schweiz. Eine Studie zur Behandlung der
Gesellschaftsproblematik bei Zollinger, Frisch und Dürrenmatt. Frankfurt: Athenäum-Verl. 1972. ISBN 3-7610-9259-8
- Ingrid Scheffler: Albin Zollinger, Max Frisch und Friedrich Dürrenmatt als Publizisten und ihr Verhältnis zu den
Medien. Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Lang 1986. (= Beiträge zur Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts; 7) ISBN
3-8204-9134-1
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