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Gerold Späth (born 16 October 1939 in Rapperswil) is a Swiss author, poet and writer.

Gerold Späth
Rapperswil, home town and muse of Gerold Späth
Born16 October 1939 (1939-10-16) (age 82)
Rapperswil
NationalitySwiss
OccupationAuthor, poet and writer
Years active1970–
Known forCommedia (1980)
StyleAdult literature
Spouse(s)Christine Lötscher
AwardsGerold Späth#Awards

Life and career


Born 1939 in Rapperswil on the Obersee lakeshore in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, the son of an organ builder made his studies in London and Fribourg, after a training as an export clerk. Later, he worked in his father's company Späth Orgelbau in Rapperswil. Thereafter, Gerold Späth undertook several trips and a longer stay in Ireland. Gerold Späth lives and writes mainly in Rapperswil.[1]

Späth Orgelbau, Giessi in Rapperswil
Späth Orgelbau, Giessi in Rapperswil

Gerold Späth's three central works are thematically connected: "Unschlecht" (1970), "Balzapf oder als ich auftauchte" (1977) and "Barbarswila" (1988), in which Rapperswil gave model to the fictitious localities Spiessbünzen, Molchgüllen and Barbarswila, the satirical depictions of a typical Swiss small-town.[1] A new narrative form was introduced with Commedia (1980), in a certain way basing on Dante's Inferno, for which Späth was awarded with the German book prize Alfred-Döblin-Preis.[2] Späth's literally cosmos is characterized by love, lust and vices, and a propensity to the blazing sensuality and baroque awareness of the transience of everything earthly. He dominates all the stops by the comical and humorous to the tragic.[1] Tales of Späth's home town of Rapperswil and the region around Zürichsee form a central motif of his work.

The Swiss films Der Landvogt von Greifensee (1979) and Völlerei oder Inselfest (1980) base on Gerold Späth's novels.[3]

Gerold Späth's novels and short stories were translated in various languages, inter alia by Alice Ceresa the Italian-language edition of the novel "Unschlecht" (Italian: L'incredibile storia di Johann il Buono) in 1977.[4]

Gerold Späth's self-image as author is palpable to his organ builder family, as he told on occasion of a dramatic reading: it's important that an organ will still be in 200 years a good organ. This results in a great care in writing, which he ironically called team inability. He wants no lecturer, independence in writing is the most important. Also of great importance to his literary works are the different residences – Rapperswil, Ireland and Italy – life abroad is deteriorating views of Switzerland. Anyway, Switzerland and his childhood in Rapperswil, which Gerold Späth compares with Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, as he grew up with the so-called Seebuebedütsch (Zürichsee children language, meaning also 'wild') and to write on the people's mouth. His 'staff' is reduced to four family members, among them his wife Christine Lötscher.[5]


Work



Books (excerpt)



Poems (excerpt)



Filmographie



Awards



Literature



References


  1. "Späth Gerold" (in German). bibliomedia.ch. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  2. Hildesheimer, Wolfgang (24 March 1980). "Wolfgang Hildesheimer über Gerold Späth: Commedia" (in German). Der Spiegel 13/1980. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. "Gerold Späth". imdb. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  4. Francesca Negroni (28 December 2001). "Ceresa, Alice" (in German). HDS. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  5. Simone Leibundgut (12 May 2010). "Gerold Späth: Orgelbauer, Fischer, Schriftsteller" (in German). kulturkritik.ch. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  6. Martin Lüdke (8 October 1991). "Gerold Späth: Orgelbauer, Fischer, Schriftsteller" (in German). Die Zeit. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  7. Fredy Kümin. "Vereinsgeschichte" (in German). ufnau.ch. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  8. Werkjahr describes in Switzerland usually a scholarship.
  9. Anerkennungsgabe may be comparable to an institutional tribute.




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