Coming Out Swiss by Anne Herrmann

Author:Anne Herrmann [Herrmann, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Hans Arp speaks Alsatian with his boyhood friends, German in school, and French with his parents. His first poems are written in Alsatian, but as an artist he dreams of going to Paris. When his father is forced to close his cigar and cigarette factory in Strasbourg, they move to Weggis, on the shores of Lake Lucerne. When Arp returns to Paris in 1914, Germany has declared war. His money has become worthless, and he is forced to return to Switzerland. The draft board at the German consulate in Zürich wants to send him back to Germany. When asked to tell his age, he writes the date of his birth several times in a column:

16 September 1887

16 September 1887

16 September 1887

16 September 1887

Then he draws a line underneath, adds up the numbers, and puts down the figure. They reject him for medical reasons. They think he is insane.

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