Anton Leopold

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Anton Leopold (born June 13, 1928 in Frankenau-Unterpullendorf / Frankanava, Burgenland) is an Austrian writer, poet and textbook author.

biography

Anton Leopold, also called "Tonči" by his parents Paul and Maria, grew up as the eldest son with his brothers Viktor, Ladislaus, Franz and Josko and his sister Johanna on a large farm near Ólmod near Kőszeg in Hungary. Toni recognized his passion for poetry very early on. His rest was interrupted at the age of 16 when he was called up for military service in Wiener Neustadt , where air raids on Wiener Neustadt took place in 1944 . While Toni was taking part in the front in Wiener Neustadt, his parents experienced the end of the war when, on March 29, 1945 at around 11:00 am, the Red Army in the Klostermarienberg area - about 1 to 2 kilometers from the farm - entered Austrian territory for the first time (then German Reich territory). After the war, Toni married "Käthe", who lives in Graz, in the Mariatrost Basilica in 1959 . Both moved to Wien-Landstrasse where their children Gabi in 1960 and Michi in 1965.

Leopold worked from 1960 until his retirement in 1993 as an employee in the federal service in Vienna and worked as a Burgenland-Croatian writer and photographer since his youth. In addition to a handwritten collection of more than 2,000 poems and short stories, he created an extensive collection of photos, mainly from Burgenland. Leopold also published anthologies and school books. He is a member of the Austrian PEN Club and the Society of Croatian Writers (Društvo hrvatskih književnika - Zagreb).

  • Anton Leopold, Wiener Neustadt in September 1944

  • Family Paul and Maria (parents, brothers and Käthe) Leopold, Frankenau 1960

  • Frankenau, old farmhouse of the Leopold family, around 1970 before the new building

Awards

Journalism Prize from the Burgenland Foundation Theodor Kery, certificate to Anton Leopold, 1982
  • Lorenz Karall Foundation, 1992
  • Cultural award of the Croatian Center in Vienna »Metron«, first awarded in 2008.

Publications

  • Cvijeće iz Gradišća (Flowers from Burgenland), 1954
  • Gradišćanski hrvatski gaj (Burgenland- Croatian Grove), 1967
  • Štorice i pjesme (Stories and Poems), 1989
  • Hrvatske povidajke (Croatian Stories) 1992
  • Svitli kolobar (The bright circle), 1995
  • Sunce domovine (The Sun at Home) 1996
  • Pjesma je moj razgovor (The poem is my conversation), CD, 2009
  • Ptici i slavuji - Hawks and nightingales. , Editor Peter Tyran, Vienna: Verlag Braumüller 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.bildungsserver.com/schulen/minimulti/data/1102/2011-02_farba.pdf
  2. ↑ a b c Časni prstanj za Antona Leopolda. In: ORF.at, ethnic groups. June 6, 2016, accessed April 19, 2020 .
  3. ^ Leopold, Anton - Literaturhaus Mattersburg. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  4. ^ Burgenland Foundation Theodor Kery .
  5. ↑ https://www.literaturhausmattersburg.at/schriftbilder/leopold-anton/
  6. ↑ Anton Leopold - Predgovor. In: Ivanov blog - Ljubav je pjesma. March 3, 2019, accessed April 19, 2020 (Croatian).
  7. ↑ Anton Leopold: Svitli kolobar: Pjesme Gradišćanskohrvatske . Hrvatski kulturni i documentarni centar, Eisenstadt 1995 ( slavistik-portal.de [accessed on April 19, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Leopold, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, poet and textbook author
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenau-Unterpullendorf (Frankanava), Burgenland