Helen Meier
Helen Meier | |
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| Born | 17 April 1929 Mels, Switzerland |
| Died | 13 February 2021 (aged 91) Trogen, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Writer |
Helen Meier (17 April 1929 – 13 February 2021) was a Swiss writer and teacher. She wrote eight collections of short stories and three novels, and was awarded a number of prizes, including the Rauris Literature Prize, the Schweizerische Schillerstiftung prize twice, the Droste-Preis, and Culture Prizes from the Kantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden.
Biography
[edit]Meier was born in Mels in 1929.[1] Meier attended a Lehrerseminar in Rorschach and subsequently became a primary schoolteacher.[1] After working in England, France, and Italy, she attended the University of Fribourg, studying languages and education.[2] She subsequently worked for the Swiss Red Cross and as a special education teacher in Heiden.[1] She began writing at the age of 55 in 1984, when she submitted a short story, Lichtempfindlich, for the Ingrid Bachmann Competition at the Festival of German-Language Literature.[3] The story won the Ernst-Willner Prize and became part of her first published collection, Trockenwiese.[1][2] Meier went on to publish regularly, and wrote eight collections of short stories and three novels.[4] She was awarded a number of prizes, including the Rauris Literature Prize, the Schweizerische Schillerstiftung twice, the Droste-Preis, and Culture Prizes from the Kantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden.[2][1][4]
Meier's last publication was a set of fairytales she had written as a young woman, The White Bird, the Hat, and the Princess, which was published in 2019.[3]
Helen Meier died in a rest home in Trogen on her birthday, 13 February 2021, at the age of 91, after suffering from dementia.[1][3]
Awards
[edit]- Ernst-Willner-Preis (1984)
- Rauris Literature Prize (1985)
- Prize of the Schweizerische Schillerstiftung (1985)
- Prize of the Schweizerische Schillerstiftung (2000)
- Contribution to Pro Helvetia (2000)
- Droste-Preis (2000)
- Kulturpreis des Kantons St. Gallen (2001)
- Kulturpreis des Kantons Appenzell Ausserrhoden (2017)[4]
Works
[edit]- Trockenwiese (1984)
- Das einzige Objekt in Farbe (1985)
- Das Haus am See (1987)
- Das Gelächter (1989)
- Lebenleben (1989)
- Der Thurgau und seine Menschen (1990)
- Die Suche nach dem Paradies. 36 Photographien aus dem Appenzellerland (1991)
- Nachtbuch (1992)
- Die Thur. Von der Quelle bis zur Mündung (1992)
- Die Novizin (1995)
- Letzte Warnung (1996)
- Liebe Stimme (2000)
- Adieu, Herr Landammann! Sieben Begegnungen mit Jacob Zellweger-Zuberbühler (2001)
- Schlafwandel. Eine Erzählung (2006)
- Kleine Beweise der Freundschaft (2014)
- Die Agonie des Schmetterlings. Böse Geschichten (2015)
- Übung im Torkeln entlang des Falls. Ein Lesebuch (2017)
- Der weisse Vogel, der Hut und die Prinzessin. 23 Märchen (2019)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Bestand hat, was erzählt ist – Zum Tod von Helen Meier – Saiten". www.saiten.ch (in Swiss High German). 13 February 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- 1 2 3 "Eine Meisterin des Ungemütlichen". SRF (in German). 13 February 2021. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021.
- 1 2 3 "Schweizer Autorin Helen Meier mit 91 Jahren gestorben". Deutschland Kultur (in German). 13 February 2021. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- 1 2 3 "TROGEN: Erstmals Schriftstellerin geehrt". Tagblatt (in French). 26 May 2017. Archived from the original on 10 June 2017.
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