Alois Grasmayr

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Alois Grasmayr (born March 28, 1876 in Ried im Innkreis , † March 11, 1955 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian teacher, hotelier and writer .

Life

Grasmayr was born the son of a small farmer in Hohenzell near Ried im Innkreis . After attending the teacher training institute in Salzburg, he worked here as a teacher, later also in Pongau , the Innviertel and in the Styrian high mountains. Grasmayr went on extensive hikes and bike trips to Italy and Scandinavia . Through his literary and artistic activity he made the acquaintance of important writers and artists, u. a. Peter Rosegger , Gustav Frenssen or Hermann Bahr .

In 1914 he married Magda von Mautner-Markhof (* April 14, 1881; † August 22, 1944) from the Mautner-Markhof industrial family in Vienna and thus made a considerable fortune. He had four sons. The eldest son Klaus (Dr. phil., 1914–1998) became the heir, because his brothers Gottfried and Peter (Dr. jur.) Died in World War II . The youngest son died as a child.

His honeymoon took him to Egypt and Sudan . In 1914/15 he bought the “Hotel Stein” and the “ Hotel Bristol ” in Salzburg . Later the “ Blaue Gans ” and the “ Sternbräu” . In 1915, he bought another house on Mönchsberg 18 in Salzburg, which was characterized by a seven-story tower with a rotating glass globe. In this house, the so-called Grasmayr Villa , met among others. a. Richard Billinger , Felix Braun , Stefan Zweig or Rudolf Pannwitz . A lifelong friendship linked him with Ludwig Praehauser .

Grasmayr Villa in Salzburg on the Mönchsberg

In the interwar period, he traveled to the United States to study American schools and universities. During the Second World War, the staunch pacifist was imprisoned for "undermining military strength".

Grasmayer wrote numerous essays on his travels, philosophical treatises that identified him as a researcher of myths, and above all a commentary on Goethe's Faust ("Faustfibel"), which was lost in World War II. In addition to folk plays and stories, he also wrote his most important work, “Das Faustbüchl”, in the Salzburg dialect. Sometimes he wrote under the pseudonym Christoph Wegbauer .

Alois Grasmayer later lived with the widowed Irmgard von Hebra, whom he married in January 1949. He died surprisingly on March 11, 1955 in his beloved "Hotel Stein".

literature

  • Adolf Haslinger, Peter Mittermayr (ed.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon. Residenzverlag, Salzburg 2001, ISBN 3-7017-1129-1 .
  • Peter Walder-Gottsbacher: Nonntal. Inner and outer stone in ancient views. European Library, Zaltbommel 1996, ISBN 90-288-6349-4 .
  • Johann Aigner: The Faust from Mönchsberg. Memories of Alois Grasmayr. Salzburg 1986.

selected Writings

  • The Faustbüchl: Goethe's Faust 1st and 2nd part for everyday life and in Austrian dialect told and interpreted / told and interpreted by Alois Grasmayr. 1949, Salzburg: "Das Silberboot" publishing house.
  • On the wealth of poverty. An autobiography. (Ed. by Johann N. Aigner and Franz Paul Enzinger) Verlag der Salzburger Druckerei, Salzburg 1990.
  • The seven mountains of the Bible. Salzburg 1943.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ decision_schiele20110330_1
  2. ↑ http://www.sbg.ac.at/slita/archiv/besta.htm#g
  3. ↑ Christoph Wegbauer (Alois Grasmayr): The seven mountains of the Bible. (Preface; 1. Mount Sinai; 2. Mount Nebo; 3. The Mount of Temptation; 4. The Mount of the Sermon on the Mount; 5. Mount Tabor; 6. The Mount of Olives; 7. Mount Calvary. The City of God. Afterword, written Christmas 1943 in memory of my sons lost in Russia)
  4. ↑ http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/media/file/195_dossier_schiele_herbstbaum.pdf
  5. ↑ Johann N. Aigner: The Faust from Mönchsberg . Verlag der Salzburger Druckerei, 1986 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Grasmayr, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher, hotelier and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried im Innkreis
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1955
Place of death Salzburg