Alfons Petzold

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Alfons Petzold

Alfons Maria Petzold , pseudonym De Profundis , (born September 24, 1882 in Fünfhaus , † January 25, 1923 in Kitzbühel ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

The memorial stone in Alfons Petzold-Gasse in Brunn am Gebirge

Alfons Petzold was the son of a worker who moved from Saxony to Austria because of his social democratic sentiments . Due to the difficult economic situation of his parents, the young Alfons Petzold was forced to contribute to the family's livelihood at an early age, despite his weak constitution. He began an apprenticeship in a metal grinding shop, which he broke off. Afterwards he worked as an assistant and continued his education through intensive reading. After a short phase of enthusiasm for the Christian social movement of Karl Lueger and German national ideas for social democracy, Petzold found himself enthusiastic . After his mother's death in 1902, Petzold, who was now completely penniless, went through a phase of religious enthusiasm under the influence of reading Tolstoy . In 1905/06 Petzold was employed as an editorial clerk at the weekly newspaper Der Weg in Vienna, where he met Arnold Höllriegel . In 1907 he was a co-founder of the “Ikarus Club”, where he debated socialist theories with friends and made contact with the anarchist Rudolf Großmann . In 1908 Petzold was diagnosed with tuberculosis . With the support of his friends, he was able to go to a sanatorium in Brunn am Gebirge near Vienna for medical treatment several times . The meeting with the social democrat Josef Luitpold Stern , who promoted the publication of Petzold's first volume of poetry in 1910, was decisive for Petzold's literary career .

After the first volumes of poetry, the novel “Earth” followed in 1913, in which Petzold processed his hospital stays. Petzold did not participate in World War I for health reasons, but at the beginning of the war he published poetry full of enthusiasm for war, violent fantasies and national tones (which his mentor Stern, who actually had to call in, explicitly disapproved of). He married Hedwig Seraphine Gamillscheg on Sept. 25, 1915 in the Heiligenkreuz Abbey near Baden ; at the time he was living in the old smithy (Heiligenkreuz No. 22) . In 1917 Petzold moved to Kitzbühel , where he was a social democratic councilor from 1918 and headed the Moser bookstore from 1919. His most successful book, a stylized description of his difficult childhood and youth, was published in 1920 under the title "Das rauhe Leben". With his work, in which he combined social issues and religious perspectives up to mysticism and pantheism in an idiosyncratic way, Petzold was considered an important worker poet during his lifetime . After his death, his autobiography was falsified by interventions and cuts in the nationalistic sense; therefore it was tolerated as a kind of Austrian homeland poet during the Third Reich and was reprinted. After 1945, Petzold was largely forgotten.

Memorial plaque on the house where he was born, Robert-Hamerling-Gasse (then Stadiongasse) 28 in Vienna Fünfhaus

After his death, the Alfons-Petzold-Hof in Simmering was named after him. The Petzoldgasse in Simmering and the Alfons-Petzold-Gasse in Liesing , Perchtoldsdorf and Brunn am Gebirge as well as memorial plaques in the 15th and 16th districts of Vienna also remind of the worker poet, as well as a Petzoldstraße in Innsbruck and Attnang-Puchheim , an Alfons-Petzold -Gasse and the "Alfons Petzold Heim" a club house in Kitzbühel .

His estate is in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture of the Working World in Dortmund , in the archive center of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and in the manuscript collection of the National Library in Vienna. A fragment of the estate is in the manuscript collection of the Vienna Library in the City Hall .

Works

  • In spite of all! , Vienna 1910
  • Strange Music , Vienna 1911
  • The Eternal and the Hour , Leipzig 1912
  • Memoirs of an Eye , Vienna et al. 1912
  • From the life and workshop of a person in the making , Vienna ao 1913
  • Erde , Vienna et al. 1913
  • Heimat Welt , Vienna 1913
  • The holy ring , Vienna et al. 1914
  • Krieg , Vienna ao 1914
  • Johanna , Vienna et al. 1915
  • People, my people ... , Jena 1915
  • Three days , Warnsdorf 1916
  • Austrian legend , Warnsdorf 1916
  • Sil, the wanderer , Constance 1916
  • The steel scream , Warnsdorf 1916
  • Twilight of the Hearts , Innsbruck 1917
  • The new festival , Vienna ao 1917
  • Transfiguration , Warnsdorf-Vienna 1917
  • From my street , Warnsdorf et al. 1917
  • Resurrection , Villach 1918
  • The fiery way , Vienna et al. 1918
  • Franciscus of Assisi , Warnsdorf et al. 1918
  • In a quiet hour , Constance 1918
  • Der Dornbusch , Vienna et al. 1919
  • The book of God , Vienna et al. 1920
  • Einkehr , Vienna ao 1920
  • Der Franzl , Vienna et al. 1920
  • People in the shade , Hamburg-Großborstel 1920
  • The rough life , Berlin 1920
  • The Blackjack and Other Stories , Vienna 1921
  • Spring saga , Vienna 1922
  • Singing from morning to noon , Vienna ao 1922
  • The Pilgrim , Vienna 1922
  • Face in the clouds , Vienna et al. 1923
  • Der Erdische , Leipzig 1923
  • The smile of God , Leipzig 1923
  • Sevarinde , Vienna et al. 1923
  • Dance of Death , Leipzig 1923
  • Poems and short stories , Vienna 1924
  • The life of the worker , Vienna 1925
  • The high glow , Jena 1939
  • Poems and short stories , Vienna 1947
  • Path out of the twilight , Vienna 1947
  • I am full of longing , Vienna 1948
  • The Hundred Most Beautiful Poems , Vienna 1952
  • A little sun every day , Vienna 1956
  • A brother like you , Vienna ao 1957
  • One day the days will change , Graz and others in 1959
  • Correspondence , New York et al. 1998 (together with Stefan Zweig )
  • Me with tired feet , Klagenfurt 2002

literature

  • Roman Herle: Alfons Petzold . Vienna 1928, (Vienna, University, unprinted dissertation).
  • Ernst Glaser: Alfons Petzold. A contribution to the problem of worker poetry in Vienna 1935, (Vienna, University, unprinted dissertation).
  • Herbert Exenberger : Alfons Petzold. Contributions to life and work with a Petzold bibliography . Edited by Fritz Hüser . Stadtbücherei, Dortmund 1972, ( poets and thinkers of our time 40, ZDB -ID 504234-3 ).
  • Bernhard Denscher, Johann Luger: Alfons Petzold. 1882-1923 . Edited by Franz Patzer. Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, Vienna 1982, (catalog for the 197th temporary exhibition of the Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek).
  • Friedrich Slezak: Ottakringer working-class culture using two examples . Slezak, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85416-085-2 .
  • N. Griesmayer:  Petzold Alfons. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 16 f. (Direct links on p. 16 , p. 17 ).
  • Rainer Noltenius:  Petzold, Alfons. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 275 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Alfons Petzold  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murray G. Hall, Gerhard Renner: Handbook of the estates and collections of Austrian authors (2nd edition). Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau, 1995. Page 389
  2. ↑ a b Alfons Petzold . German biography. Retrieved January 30, 2019
  3. ^ Na 53 - Alfred Petzold's estate. Goethe University, University Library. Retrieved January 30, 2019
  4. ↑ Link Partial estate of Alfons Petzold . Literature archive of the Austrian National Library. Accessed January 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Petzold, Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Profundis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Five house
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1923
Place of death Kitzbühel