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Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.
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culture · Swiss writer (1845–1924) · poet · writer · theologian · also Carl Spitteler, Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, Spitteler
Born 24 April 1845 · Died 29 December 1924 · Q226525
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Artist and writer Tanja Stark first connected Spitteler (and Jung's) concept with musician David Bowie, who famously described himself as Jungian, in his 1973 song "Lady Grinning Soul"
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Died 1924-12-29.
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Awarded Schiller prize (1920).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — in special appreciation of his epic, <I>Olympian Spring</I>.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1919).
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"in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring"
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There appeared Friedli, der Kalderi, a collection of short stories, in which Spitteler, as he himself says, depicted Russian realism
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And devoted himself to a journalistic career in Basel
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Spitteler married Marie op der Hoff, previously his pupil in Neuveville
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Published his Extramundana, a collection of poems
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Contrasting between ideals and dogmas through the mythological figures of Prometheus and Epimetheus
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Born 1845-04-24.
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