Adalbert Schmidt

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Adalbert Schmidt (born July 12, 1906 in Vienna ; † November 9, 1999 in Eferding near Linz) was an Austrian German studies scholar and university professor.

Life

Schmidt, son of a Ministerialrat, was a Viennese with Sudeten German and Hungarian ancestors. In 1930 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Wilhelm Holzamer under the Germanist Paul Kluckhohn (1886–1957). In the 1930s Schmidt worked for Radio Vienna, designed “book lessons” and was active in popular education, especially for the Vienna Urania .

As a publisher's editor at the Sudeten German publisher Franz Kraus in Reichenberg (Liberec), Schmidt was responsible for the literary supplements of the Sudeten German daily newspaper and wrote theater reports for German national newspapers such as the Wiener Neuesten Nachrichten . Between 1934 and 1936, together with Hans Bruneder and (until 1935) Hugo Ellenberger , Schmidt published the journal Lebendigeichtung - Austrian monthly books for German literature - at Adolf Luser Verlag in Vienna .

After he joined the NSDAP in 1938 , according to other sources, there was only one party entitlement, he completed his habilitation in 1939 with a thesis on Helfrich Peter Sturz . Then he was the editor of the Ostmark lyric , as well as a Sudeten German poetry book .

During the Second World War he was in military service and then as a prisoner of war. His writings The Sudeten German Poetry of the Present (Kraus, Reichenberg 1938), Sudetendeutsches Lyrikbuch (Kraus, Reichenberg 1939) and Ostmark-Lyrik (Luser, Vienna 1939) were placed on the list of literature to be excluded in the Soviet occupation zone .

Schmidt later became a lecturer at the theological faculty in Salzburg, then a district school inspector for vocational schools. A second habilitation on the subject of “Ways and Changes in Modern Poetry” (1964) opened the way for Schmidt to later become a professor at the University of Salzburg , which is currently being expanded , a position he held from 1966 to 1976. Schmidt's inaugural lecture was dedicated to Adalbert Stifter's “Soft Law”.

Schmidt's literary history of our time (1968) and Austrian poetry and poets in the 19th and 20th centuries (1964) have long been considered standard works.

For Herbert Arlt, Schmidt's contribution to the historiography of Austrian literature (as opposed to literature from Germany) was not based on the material, but owed to the circumstances of the time: Austria did not want to be responsible for Nazi crimes. He writes "in particular the change from Josef Nadler , Adalbert Schmidt, Heinz Kindermann and others from a National Socialist account to a defense of the existence of Austrian literature was seen more owed to the circumstances of the day than to an object-oriented literary and linguistic work"

After his retirement he lived in Eferding near Linz.

family

Adalbert Schmidt is the father of the Austrian painter Hanna Scheriau .

Works

  • Adalbert Schmidt: The Sudeten German poetry of the present. Kraus, Reichenberg 1938.
  • Adalbert Schmidt: Sudeten German poetry book. Kraus, Reichenberg 1939.
  • Ostmark poetry of the present . Collected and edited by Dr. Adalbert Schmidt. Adolf Luser Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1939.
  • Hermann Bahr : Correspondence with the father . Selected by Adalbert Schmidt. With an afterword and register. Bauer, Vienna 1972.

literature

  • Festschrift for Adalbert Schmidt on his 70th birthday. Edited by Gerlinde Weiss with Gerd-Dieter Stein's co-author. Akad. Verl. Heinz, Stuttgart 1976.
  • Elmar Oberegger: Em. O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Adalbert Schmidt, Father Thomas, Elmar Oberegger and the ham sandwich. Memories of the 'Maierwieser Symposium' (1979) , self-published, Sattledt 2013.
  • Alexander Pinwinkler : The “founding generation” of the University of Salzburg: biographies, networks, appointment policy, 1960–1975, Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2020, here on Adalbert Schmidt especially 188–203, ISBN 978-3-205-20937-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 528.
  2. ↑ See weblink obituary.
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  4. ↑ Herbert Arlt: On the history of the representation of Austrian literature. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ See also Karl Schimpl: Continuation and problematization. Heinz 1982, p. 236.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1999
Place of death Eferding