{"id":287,"date":"2025-03-21T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:27:51","slug":"joyce-in-zurich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyce-in-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce in Z\u00fcrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyce-in-zurich\/dates-and-residences\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dates and Residences<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyce-in-zurich\/other-joyce-related-places\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3950\">Other Joyce-Related Places<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyce-in-zurich\/zurich-references-in-finnegans-wake\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4018\">Zurich References in <em>Finnegans Wake<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/a5bf36dd5e8e82f55f423244c35a7777-sriimg20080325_5205392_2-38132466-data.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1438\" style=\"width:405px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/a5bf36dd5e8e82f55f423244c35a7777-sriimg20080325_5205392_2-38132466-data.jpg 290w, https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/a5bf36dd5e8e82f55f423244c35a7777-sriimg20080325_5205392_2-38132466-data-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/a5bf36dd5e8e82f55f423244c35a7777-sriimg20080325_5205392_2-38132466-data-8x12.jpg 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joyce in Zurich \u00a9 Zurich James Joyce Foundation <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Z\u00fcrich war ein wichtiger Wendepunkt im Leben von James Joyce, sowohl k\u00fcnstlerisch als auch finanziell. Es war die Stadt, in der er und Nora ihr Leben im Exil begannen. Die Stadt wurde im Ersten und sp\u00e4ter auch nach Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs zum Zufluchtsort. Und Z\u00fcrich ist ihre letzte Ruhest\u00e4tte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fehlstart und R\u00fcckkehr aufgrund des Ersten Weltkriegs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Joyce and his partner, Nora Barnacle, <a href=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyce-in-zurich\/joyce-in-zurich-timeline\/11-19-oct-1904-june-july-1915\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first came to Zurich in 1904<\/a>. However, things did not go as planned. A putatively open position as an English teacher at the Berlitz School did not, in fact, exist. After a little more than a week, the couple moved on to Pula and, later, Trieste. With the exception of a brief stay in Rome, they spent the next ten years there and had two children, Giorgio and Lucia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World War I forced the Joyce family to leave Trieste in the <a href=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyce-in-zurich\/joyce-in-zurich-timeline\/7-july-15-oct-1915\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">summer of 1915<\/a>. The parents chose neutral Switzerland. During their four years in Zurich Joyce published the book version of <em>Ein Portr\u00e4t des K\u00fcnstlers als junger Mann <\/em>(1916) sowie sein einziges Theaterst\u00fcck, <em>Verbannte <\/em>(1917). Ausserdem schrieb er einen Drittel seines bahnbrechenden Romans <em>Ulysses <\/em>w\u00e4hrend seinem Schweizer Exil. Hinzu kam die Serienver\u00f6ffentlichung von <em>Ulysses <\/em>im Little Review in New York, die ebenfalls w\u00e4hrend der Zeit in Z\u00fcrich begann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ein Neuanfang: Die Finanzen des Autors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ebenso entscheidend wie diese k\u00fcnstlerischen Meilensteine war die Tatsache, dass Z\u00fcrich einen finanziellen Wendepunkt in Joyces Leben bedeutete. Unter anderem erhielt Joyce Stipendien von der Britischen Regierung, mit Hilfe der Dichter Ezra Pound und W. B. Yeats. Noch bedeutsamer war aber, dass Joyce betr\u00e4chtliche finanzielle Unterst\u00fctzung von Frauen wie Edith Rockefeller McCormick und Harriet Weaver erhielt. Weaver, die zuerst anonym blieb, sollte die Familie Joyce noch jahrelang unterst\u00fctzen, sogar \u00fcber den Tod des Autors hinaus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seine zunehmend gesicherte finanzielle Situation erm\u00f6glichte es Joyce, sich auf das Schreiben zu konzentrieren. Z\u00fcrich blieb mit anderen Worten nicht nur eine Durchgangsstation zu Beginn von Joyces Leben im Exil. Ab 1915 war die Limmatstadt auch Schauplatz eines Wandels bez\u00fcglich seines Schicksals als K\u00fcnstler: Er war nicht mehr ein kaum bekannter Schriftsteller, der chronisch damit k\u00e4mpfte, finanziell \u00fcber die Runden zu kommen, sondern ein ikonischer Modernist mit einem \u2013 mehr oder weniger \u2013 stabilen Einkommen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eine letzte R\u00fcckkehr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the end of World War I, the Joyce family left Zurich and eventually settled in Paris. <a href=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyce-in-zurich\/joyce-in-zurich-timeline\/visits-in-the-1930s\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">During the 1930s<\/a>, they came back to Zurich to visit friends as well as for several of Joyce&#8217;s many eye surgeries. When World War II broke out and the National Socialists invaded France, the Joyces had to flee. They made it back to Zurich in December 1940, but Joyce passed away on 13 January 1941, due to complications after emergency treatment of a perforated ulcer. Joyce, Nora, and Giorgio are all buried in <a href=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyce-in-zurich\/joyce-in-zurich-timeline\/from-1941\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3894\">Fluntern Cemetery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup><strong>Weitere Informationen: <\/strong>Fischer, Andreas. <em>James Joyce in Zurich: A Guide. <\/em>Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.\uff5cFaerber, Thomas and Markus Luchsinger. <em>Joyce in Z\u00fcrich<\/em>. Unionsverlag, 1988.<br><\/sup><br><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich was an important turning point in James Joyce&#8217;s life, both artistically and financially. It was the city where he and Nora began their life in exile. It became a place of refuge during World War I and again after the outbreak of World War II. And Zurich is their final resting place. 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