Adalbert Welte

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Adalbert Welte (born June 30, 1902 in Frastanz , Vorarlberg , † July 9, 1969 in Hard ) was an Austrian writer and civil servant .

Life

Weltes ancestors were Walser . His father worked as a cooper . Adalbert Welte began his career as an employee of an insurance company. From June 1938 he worked in the Vorarlberg State Archives , but in September 1939 he was assigned to the district administrator of Bregenz for the duration of the war. From 1945 to 1967 he was entrusted with the management of the state library in the state archive , from 1955 also with the state registry and from 1963 with the management of the administrative agendas. He limited his writing activity to leisure time. On the board of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundingshe represented the country of Austria; He also looked after the club library when it was housed in Bregenz from 1950 to 1958.

As a local poet, he was the author of historical novels on the history of the Walser migration ("The Great Flight", 1939). From 1945 to 1969 he was the editor of the Vorarlberg People's Calendar. Welte also wrote various short stories and radio plays .

Adalbert Welte died on July 9, 1969 at the age of 67 and found his final resting place in Hard. He was married and has two daughters. His daughter Elsbeth Tatarczyk-Welte works as an artist.

Today, the “Adalbert-Welte-Saal” commemorates the narrator and poet at his place of birth, Frastanz (renaming of the multi-purpose hall of the primary school in Frastanz-Dorf on May 30, 2003).

Awards and honors

Works

  • To Mary's mother's hand to the eternal fatherland (May sermons), 1927
  • The Dark Legacy , 1933 (depicts the contrast between the down-to-earth, clumsy peasantry and the emerging "inconsistent" industry based on the fate of two brothers)
  • The real thing , 1936
  • The Great Escape , 1939 (via the train of the Valais to the Walsertal in the Middle Ages, where they settled in the area of ​​the Counts of Montfort-Werdenberg)
  • Who sows the wind , 1949 (about the sinister figure of Hugo von Montfort and the suffering love of his wife)
  • Shadow over the village , 1953 (on the topics of industrial society, liberalism, exploitation and burgeoning socialism)
  • The ring with the alexandrite (radio play), 1967

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alois Niederstätter : The Vorarlberg State Archives 1938–1945 . In: Austria's archives under the swastika (= General Directorate of the Austrian State Archives [Hrsg.]: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchivs . Volume 54 ). Studienverlag , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4941-7 , p. 623–644 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website ). Full text as PDF] on the website of the [[Vorarlberger Landesarchiv] ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
  2. ^ Cornelia Albertani: Personnel of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv . In: Karl Heinz Burmeister and Alois Niederstätter (eds.): Archive and history. 100 Years of the Vorarlberg State Archive (= Vorarlberg State Archive [Hrsg.]: Research on the history of Vorarlberg . Volume 3 (NF)). Universitätsverlag Konstanz , Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-87940-636-4 , p. 257-258 .
  3. ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here: p. 218, p. 220.
personal data
SURNAME Welte, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Frastanz , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1969
Place of death Hard , Vorarlberg