Bruno Mahlknecht

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Bruno Mahlknecht in 2010

Bruno Mahlknecht (born July 31, 1940 in Bozen ) is a South Tyrolean writer and local researcher .

Life

Bruno Mahlknecht attended the teacher training institute in Merano and then worked as a primary school teacher in several places in South Tyrol , most recently in Bozen-Gries . He later gave up his profession and devoted himself more to local research and writing.

As early as 1961 he began to publish local history articles in the South Tyrolean daily newspaper Dolomiten . He published in this newspaper for 40 years. Since 1967 he has also published in the regional journal Der Schlern and in other periodicals. By 2012 around 600 articles and articles on regional and cultural history were written. Since 1969 he has published several books. From 1979 to 1994 he was editor of the monthly magazine Tiroler Volkskultur (today "KulturFenster"), since 1979 he has been editor of the South Tyrolean house calendar . On the radio of Rai Südtirol he worked for several years in local history programs, most recently from 2000 to 2006 on the program Unser Land . In 2001/02 Mahlknecht published two articles in which he suggested the renaming of several Bolzano street names in the sense of restoring old Bolzano street names , which led to violent attacks by Italian local newspapers.

Bruno Mahlknecht is married and has three children.

Works

  • Welschnofen-Karersee rose garden . Athesia, Bozen 1978
  • Kaltern and the surrounding area. Portrait of a blessed landscape . Athesia, Bozen 1979
  • Eppan - past and present . Eppan municipality, Eppan 1990
  • Rides. Famous low mountain range in the sight of the Dolomites . Athesia, Bozen 1998, 5th edition
  • Of evildoers great and small . Wagner, Innsbruck 2005. ISBN 978-3-7030-0396-7
  • Bolzano through the centuries - Volume 1 . Athesia Spectrum, Bozen 2005. ISBN 978-88-6011-020-6
  • Bolzano through the centuries - Volume 2 . Athesia Spectrum, Bozen 2006. ISBN 978-88-6011-021-3
  • Bolzano through the centuries - Volume 3 . Athesia Spectrum, Bozen 2006. ISBN 978-88-6011-027-5
  • Bolzano through the centuries - Volume 4 . Athesia Spectrum, Bozen 2007. ISBN 978-88-6011-077-0
  • South Tyrol to smile about , Tappeiner Verlag, Lana 2013. ISBN 978-88-7073-734-9
  • Castles, palaces and mansions in Kaltern . Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2015. ISBN 978-88-6563-125-6
  • Castles, palaces and mansions in Eppan . Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2015. ISBN 978-88-6563-136-2
  • From the Chronicle of Bozen 1850-1909 . Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2016. ISBN 978-88-6563-163-8
  • From the Chronicle of Bozen 1910-1945 . Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2015. ISBN 978-88-6563-152-2
  • From the Chronicle of Bolzano 1945-1999 . Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2016. ISBN 978-88-6563-169-0
  • South Tyrolean legends. Selected and edited by Bruno Mahlknecht , Athesia, Bozen 2016, 6th edition. ISBN 978-88-6839-182-9
  • From the Chronicle of Bozen 2000-2015 . Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2017. ISBN 978-88-6563-191-1
  • The "robber captain" Piffer and other South Tyrolean court and criminal cases from the 19th century . Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2020. ISBN 978-88-6563-270-3

Awards

Web links

Commons : Bruno Mahlknecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Widmoser (1988): Südtirol A – Z , 3rd volume (Kr – N), Innsbruck: Südtirol-Verlag, p. 220.
  2. ↑ Marjan Cescutti: Bruno Mahlknecht for his seventieth! He wrote South Tyrolean history and stories about South Tyrol. In: Dolomiten , August 5, 2010, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Thoughts on the Bolzano street names - urban development shaped names. Personalities only in connection with Bolzano. In: Dolomiten, No. 254 of November 5, 2001, p. 8; Amba Alagi, Locatelli, Combattenti ...: should these names really last forever? Considerations on the questionability of some Italian street names in Bozen , in: Südtiroler Hauskalender 134/2003, Bozen 2002, pp. 42–57.
personal data
SURNAME Mahlknecht, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author and local historian (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano