Alois Rossmanith
Alois Roßmanith (born September 24, 1909 in Vienna ; † January 29, 1957 in Schleinbach , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian working-class poet .
Life
Alois Roßmanith's father was a laborer and died in Russia in 1914 during World War I. As a child, Alois Roßmanith was often ill and had to spend years in hospitals and health centers. In his youth he traveled through Austria, Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, where he worked as an unskilled worker, payroll clerk, assistant teacher and clerk. He found social democracy through popular education and soon published socially critical poems in various magazines. In 1933 he became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers .
After the fighting in February 1934 , he was soon arrested as an illegal socialist . From March to May 1934 he was in police custody, from where he was transferred to the Wöllersdorf detention center . After his release from prison in September 1934, he self-published a volume of poetry and received the Julius Reich Prize in 1936 . He also became secretary of the Anton Wild Goose Society .
During the Nazi dictatorship, he continued to publish poetry and stories in magazines. In December 1943 he received the Adalbert Stifter Prize of the City of Vienna. After the end of the Second World War he was a co-founder and first secretary of the Döbling Adult Education Center . After his death, Josef Luitpold Stern viewed his extensive literary legacy, including several manuscripts for novels .
plant
- Early spring . Poems, Vienna 1935
- Call of the watchman: hear, you peoples, let yourself be told! Choir score for Viktor Korda , Vienna 1954
Awards
- 1936 Julius Reich Prize
- 1943 Adalbert Stifter Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Alois Roßmanith in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society .
Individual evidence
- ^ Alois Rosmanith died In: Arbeiter-Zeitung, February 3, 1957, page 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rossmanith, Alois |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rossmanith, Alois; Rosmanith, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian worker poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1957 |
| Place of death | Schleinbach , Lower Austria |