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Born as Karl-Dietrich Roth on April 21, in Hanover as one of three sons of a German mother and a Swiss father working as a merchant. Roth is accommodated with foster parents in Zurich. At the hotel run by the family Fritz Wyss, where Roth will remain for three years, Jewish and communist artists and actors also reside during the war. In this environment Roth begins to write poetry and to create his first drawings, pastels, and watercolours.

Roth attends secondary school in St Gallen. He produces his first etching on tin sheet metal and his first oil paintings. There he becomes acquainted with all of the significant printing techniques. He creates linocuts and wood engravings. Roth meets Eggenschwiler and Paul Thalmann. Gerlafingen Roth makes his first collages with painted scrap metal.

He suffers a nervous breakdown and attempts suicide. Unable to find a position as a graphic artist after completing his apprenticeship, Roth begins to work as a visual artist. The artist earns his living with casual labour on construction sites. He paints further watercolours. Roth gets acquainted with Marcel Wyss and Eugen Gomringer.

Jointly they establish the periodical spirale of which nine issues are published between and Cleaning of the Jesuit Church in Solothurn.