Adolf Frankl (writer)

Adolf Frankl ( pseudonym : Hermann Harter ; born June 6, 1862 in Mürzzuschlag ; † April 23, 1958 in Gnies near Sinabelkirchen ) was an Austrian writer and teacher .

Life

Adolf Frankl, a graduate of the teacher training institute in Graz , was employed as a teacher in Edelsbach , then in Ilz and, from 1898, as a senior teacher in Söchau . In 1917 Frankl was given the direction of the school in Fürstenfeld before he retired in 1922. In 1943 he moved to Graz. Adolf Frankl co-founded the German-Austrian “Press Association against Dirt and Trash”, whose yearbook he temporarily edited. Frankl later worked as an editor of the "Deutsche Umschau" and finally the "Wechselschau".

Adolf Frankl - he was friends with Peter Rosegger - emerged as the author of folk plays , novels and mostly humorous poems .

Works (selection)

• All sorts of stories, 1899
• Homage to the Young, 1908
• From a German Heart: Poems, 1912
• Strange advertisements and other humoresques, 1913
• In great time, 1915
• In the Promised Land, 1925
• In the sign of the ear, 1928
• Things to Laugh, 1930
• Towards the Light !, 3rd edition, 1932
• Fates of the Heart, 2nd edition, 1932
• In the sign of love, 1932

literature

• Max Geissler: Guide through the German literature of the twentieth century, page 131, A. Duncker, 1913
• Alfred Maderno : The German-Austrian poetry of the present: a handbook for literary friends, page 53, T. Gerstenberg, 1920
• Joseph Kürschner , Gerhard Lüdtke: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, Volume 44, Page 299, Leipzig, 1928
• Österreich-Institut, Vienna, Robert Teichl (Ed.): Austrians of the Present: Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries, page 67, Austrian State Printing Office, 1951
• Murray G. Hall , Gerhard Renner : The bequests in the libraries and museums of the Republic of Austria, page 102 , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna, 1995

Web links

• Short article on Adolf Frankl in: Estates in Austria - Personal Lexicon.