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Erika Burkart

Erika Burkart, civil: Erika owner (* 8. February 1922 in Aarau), is Swiss a Dichterin.

Life

Erika Burkart was born 1922 in Aarau and grew in House Kapf in Existing buildings with air back-up in the Aargauer Free office - the former summer residence of the abbotts of Muri, to one Wine and meal Wirthschaft transformed - up. The father walter Burkart, once large game hunters in South America (and in the village that Heron hunter of the Gran Chaco mentioned), the guest room cared for, became however in the course of the time even ever more its best guest. The nut/mother was active as a teacher and secured beside it with further casual labours the maintenance of the family. It introduced their two daughters to the realm of the literature, particularly the legends and fairy tales.

After the training as the primary teacher Erika Burkart informed an activity, which had to give her up after 1950 because of a heart illness during some years at different schools. It felt released, and soon first poem volumes appeared, starting from 1970 also novels and narrations in regular intervals.

Apart from a few longer foreign stays and - lives and always writes the Dichterin travels in its old house with its fairy taleful garden, together with her man, the writer Ernst Halter.

Honors

• More internationally Lions club 1956
• 1. Sea citizen Droste price 1957
• Swiss Schillerstiftung: Individual work price 1958 and 1971
• C. - F. - Meyer price 1961
• Culture price the pros Argovia 1964
• Honour gift of the city Zurich 1970
• IDA Dehmel price of the GEDOK 1971
• Work year for Aargauer art-creating 1972
• Johann Peter lever price 1978
• Work contribution of the canton Zurich 1979
• Literary award of the canton Aargau 1980
• Order for work Per Helvetia 1986, 1999
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart price of the Johann Wolfgang of Goethe donation 1990
• Gottfried cellar price of the Bodmer donation 1992
• Schillerpreis of the inhabitants of zurich cantonal bank 1995
• Honour gift city Zurich 2000
• Joseph Breitbach price 2002 of the academy Mainz
• Large Schillerpreis 2005

Works

Poem volumes

• The dark bird, Tschudy, pc. Gallen 1953
• Star companion, Tschudy, pc. Gallen 1955
• Spell and flight, Tschudy, pc. Gallen 1956
• Spirit corridors, Tschudy, pc. Gallen 1958
• The saved earth, Tschudy, pc. Gallen 1960
• With the eyes of the Kore, Tschudy, pc. Gallen 1962
• I live, Kind-badly, Zurich 1964
• The yielding banks, Kind-badly, Zurich 1967
• Remote crystal. Selected poems, Publishing house to the Hartnau, Tobel (TG) 1972
• The transparency of the pieces of broken glass, Benziger, Zurich 1973
• The light in the eradication, Kind-badly, Zurich 1977
• Eye-witness. Selected poems, Kind-badly, Zurich 1978
• The liberty of the night, Kind-badly, Zurich 1982
• Constellation of the child, Kind-badly, Zurich 1984
• Being silent minute, Kind-badly, Zurich 1988
• The tenderness of the shade, Ammann, Zurich 1991
• Satisfies furthest recall, Ammann, Zurich 1997
• Local lots proximity, Ammann, Zurich 2005

Prosawerke

• Moräne. Novel, walter, oiled 1970
• Someone departs. Narrations, Benziger, Zurich 1972
• Call width, Kind-badly, Zurich 1975
• The way to the sheep. Novel, kind-badly, Zurich 1979
• The plays of the realization, Kind-badly, Zurich 1985
• Gleaming the wings, Ammann, Zurich 1994
• Grundwasserstrom, Ammann, Zurich 2000
• The Vikarin, Ammann, Zurich 2006

Literature

The report of a personal meeting is to reread in:

• Benita Cantieni: Swiss writer personally, Huber, woman field 1983, S. 191-204, ISBN 3-7193-0883-9
• Jeroen Dewulf: Brazil with breaks. Swiss one under the cross of the south, Zurich, NZZ publishing house 2007, ISBN 978-3-03823-349-7

Web on the left of

• Literature of and over Erika Burkart in the catalog that German national library
• Entry over Erika Burkart in the author encyclopedia of the association Authoresses and authors of Switzerland
• Inventory of their archives in Swiss literature archives with an introduction to lives and work