Rudolph Bolo Maeglin

Rudolph Bolo Mäglin (also Rudolf and Maeglin), (26 Dezember 1898 in Basel – 28 April 1973 in Binningen) was a Swiss journalist, publicist, writer, poet and cabaretwriter.

There were times when he wrote under six pseudonyms to deny the claim that if you write lyric poetry, you couldn't possibly succeed in cultural essays, theater reviews, sports reports, satirical glosses and gripping stories for the youth.

In Binningen, where he had lived since 1947 with his wife Elsa "Elsy" Mäglin (* 1904; † 2006) and their two children Marie-Louise "Marly" (* 1938) and Urs Beat (* 1941), you could almost find him found daily with a bundle of newspapers and one of his writing cases under his arm.

A portrait of fellow writer Heinrich Kuhn (editor of the National-Zeitung 1934–74) in the foreword to the second edition of the Ruesser also described Bolo's typical appearance as follows: «A narrow face with a sharp, slightly curved nose on top of one rather thin body.

Always neatly dressed, with a butterfly tie, gloves and cane, sometimes accompanied by a little fox terrier, a pencil case or envelope in his hand, that's how he appeared at the editorial office with a lively pace."

The Germanist and professor Louis Wiesmann from the State Literary Credit Commission Basel-Stadt wrote about him in 1963: "Bolo is not a carefree writer.

In a previous conversation with Wiesmann, Bolo had made the following programmatic confession: “Reality knows the dark and the tragic, but also the bright and the happy – otherwise life would have no meaning.

There are poems, short stories, novels, dramas, radio plays, musicals, festivals, operetta librettos, revues, cabaret programs, carnival games, Schnitzelbanks and "Fasnachts-Zeedel" from his pen.

From the window of the dispatch office, in the "Haus zum Gold", the former headquarters of the National-Zeitung on the market square, he hammered the entire report on the street carnival primavista into the typewriter.

In 2005, a memorial showcase was inaugurated in the Ortsmuseum Binningen as part of a vernissage, in which, in addition to a small selection of his wide range of works, numerous objects from his everyday life can be seen.