Joseph August Lux

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Joseph August Lux , also: Josef August Lux (born April 8, 1871 in Vienna , † March 23, 1947 in Anif , Salzburg ), was an Austrian writer .

Life

Joseph August Lux comes from a family in the Rhineland . He grew up in Vienna, where he attended middle school and then studied art history and philology . Study trips took him to Germany , France and Great Britain . In 1900 he returned to Vienna and subsequently contributed to art and culture magazines . From 1905 to 1908 he was editor of the magazine Die Hohe Warte . Lux, who was heavily influenced by the theories of John Ruskin and William Morris , was one of the supporters of endeavors towards artistic renewal, as practiced in Art Nouveau and the Wiener Werkstätten . Lux took an active part in the establishment of the Deutscher Werkbund . In 1907 he was brought to Dresden by Karl Schmidt as head of the technical college of his German workshops for handicrafts GmbH . Lux was involved in the planning for the garden city of Hellerau , but left Dresden in 1910.

From 1910 he lived as a freelance writer in Munich . From 1919 to 1921 he published the magazine Die Weiße Hefte . In 1921 he converted to Catholicism , which in the following years also shaped Lux's political views and in the 1930s led to his rapprochement with Austrofascism . From 1926 he was based in Anif near Salzburg . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in March 1938, Lux was arrested by the National Socialist rulers and ended up in the Dachau concentration camp on the first so-called “transport of prominent people ” . Although he was released, he was banned from writing .

In addition to his contributions to aesthetics , handicrafts, interior design and town planning , Joseph August Lux also wrote novels , biographies , poems and mystery plays . His biographical novels Grillparzer's Liebesroman and Lola Montez were particularly successful, with a total circulation of 62,000 and 59,000 copies respectively by 1930 . Lux's work The golden book of patriotic history for the people and youth of Austria , published in 1934 , was on the list of harmful and undesirable literature published by the Nazi authorities in 1938 and his works were found on April 30, 1938 in the only Nazi book burning on Austrian soil burned in Salzburg.

In 1943 he was a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

From 1953 his writings were on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR .

Works

  • Da finch from Weanawald. Vienna 1901.
  • Viennese sonnets and other songs. Dresden [u. a.] 1901.
  • The modern country house. Vienna 1903.
  • The modern apartment and its equipment. Vienna [u. a.] 1905.
  • Economics of Talent. Leipzig 1906.
  • Jung Vienna. Darmstadt 1907.
  • The little carpenter. Munich 1907.
  • Beautiful garden art. Esslingen 1907.
  • "If you from Kahlenberg ..." Vienna 1907.
  • with Georg Biermann: Old Holland. Leipzig 1908.
  • The taste in everyday life. Dresden 1908.
  • The new arts and crafts in Germany. Leipzig 1908.
  • Urban planning and the cornerstones of domestic construction. Dresden 1908.
  • Blackbird Gabesam. Dresden 1910.
  • Chevalier Bluebeard's love garden. Leipzig [u. a.] 1910.
  • Engineer aesthetic. Munich 1910.
  • The art of the amateur photographer. Stuttgart 1910.
  • The art in your own home. Leipzig 1910.
  • Salzburg, Badgastein, Villach, Trieste, Tauernbahn. Frankfurt a. M. 1910.
  • The city theater in Poznan, built by Prof. Max Littmann. Munich 1910.
  • The city apartment. Charlottenburg 1910.
  • The will to happiness. Vienna 1910.
  • Tree sermon. Munich 1911.
  • The vision of the dear woman. Berlin [u. a.] 1911.
  • Dalmatia, Austrian Riviera, Trieste, Zara, Cattaro, Curzola, Lesina, Arbe, the Quarnero. Frankfurt a. M. 1912.
  • Grillparzer's romance novel. Berlin 1912.
  • Lola Montez. Berlin 1912.
  • The lover photographer. Bielefeld [u. a.] 1913.
  • Otto Wagner. Munich 1914.
  • Germany as a world educator. Stuttgart [u. a.] 1915.
  • Franz Schubert's song of life. Leipzig 1915.
  • The Austrian brother. Stuttgart [u. a.] 1915.
  • Culture of the soul. Leipzig 1916.
  • The great death of farmers. Leipzig 1917.
  • Hungary. Munich 1917.
  • The winemaker's savior. Berlin [u. a.] 1918.
  • We were too rich. Vienna 1918.
  • On the German road. Leipzig 1919.
  • The window. Leipzig 1919.
  • Joseph M. Olbrich. Berlin 1919.
  • Schubertiade. Vienna [u. a.] 1921.
  • The immortal waltz. Munich 1921.
  • Twelve Viennese elegies. Vienna [u. a.] 1921.
  • The old cozy Vienna. Munich 1922.
  • Franz Schubert. Berlin 1922.
  • The Sisters Merry. Gmain Upper Bavaria 1923.
  • On the revision of German literary history. Paderborn 1924.
  • The heavenly harper. Cologne 1925.
  • A millennium of German romanticism. Innsbruck 1925.
  • Revision of modern philosophy since the Reformation. Paderborn 1925.
  • Roma sacra. Freiburg 1925.
  • Weimar and Romanticism since 1800. Paderborn 1925.
  • Beethoven's immortal lover. Berlin 1926.
  • Wandering to God. Paderborn 1926.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven. Berlin 1927.
  • Paraguay. Paderborn 1927.
  • Franz Liszt. Berlin 1929.
  • A holy game of fools. Vienna [u. a.] 1930.
  • The game of Satan's Last Judgment or The Monkey of God and the Righteous. Vienna [u. a.] 1930.
  • What does Austria look like in our school books ?! Graz 1933.
  • The golden book of patriotic history for the people and youth of Austria. Vienna 1934.
  • Three puppet shows. Vienna 1937.
  • Goethe. Vienna [u. a.] 1937.
  • Poet and lady. Salzburg 1946.
  • It will be a wine. Vienna [u. a.] 1946.
  • A millennium of Austrian poetry. Vienna 1948.

Editing

  • with Irma Lux: German nursery rhymes. Vienna [u. a.] 1904.

literature

  • Zils, Wilhelm: Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies. Munich: Kellerer, 1913
  • Elsbeth Ebertin: Joseph Aug. Lux on the 50th birthday. Freiburg (Baden) 1921.
  • Thomas Nitschke: The history of the garden city Hellerau. Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-938122-17-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Rolinek, Gerald Lehner, Christian Strasser: In the shadow of the Mozartkugel . Czernin Verlag, 2009, p. 19 .
  2. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1943, ed. v. Dr. Gerhard Lüdtke, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, 1943. p. 695.
personal data
SURNAME Lux, Joseph August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lux, Josef August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1947
Place of death Anif , Salzburg