Anton Wild Goose

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Photo from 1932
Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Anton Wildgans
Memorial plaque on the Leopoldsberg
Statue by Alfred Schlosser in St. Martin am Wöllmißberg

Anton Wildgans (born April 17, 1881 in Vienna as Anton Otto Georg Ritter von Wildgans; † May 3, 1932 in Mödling , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian poet and dramatist. He was twice director of the Vienna Burgtheater and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Life

Wildgans first studied law at the University of Vienna from 1900 . He received his doctorate in 1908 and worked as an examining magistrate for two years before he decided to become a freelance writer . Twice, in 1921/1922 and 1930/1931, he was director of the Vienna Burgtheater . He was best known for his socially critical works.

Wildgans was very committed to Austrian independence when, after the First World War, many doubted the viability of the now small state. This positive attitude is clearly expressed in his speech on Austria in 1930.

Among other things, he was the holder of the Emperor Franz Joseph Order and the Honorary Badge of the University of Vienna, and in 1923 he was appointed Hofrat. In 1925 he received the Julius Reich Prize .

In 1932 Anton Wildgans was nominated as the most promising candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Wild goose, however, died before the award ceremony at the age of 51 in Mödling and was buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 14 C, number 6).

The Wildganshof in Vienna's 3rd district was named in his honor, where a wild goose bust is located. In 1932, Wildgansplatz in the 3rd district was named after him.

In 1962, the Federation of Austrian Industries honored the writer with the Anton Wildgans Prize .

The plant is looked after by the grandson Ralph Anton Wildgans, President of the Anton Wildgans Society.

With his wife Lilly Wildgans he had two sons, Friedrich and Gottfried. His son Friedrich Wildgans (1913–1965) was a musician, composer, professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Vienna Music Academy, and president of the Austrian section of the International Society for New Music.

Works (selection)

  • Sonnets to Ead , 1913
  • Poverty , 1914. ( archive.org ).
  • Dies Irae , 1918
  • Cain , 1920. ( archive.org ).
  • Kirbisch or the gendarme, the shame and the luck , 1927. ( archive.org ). This work, one of the few German hexameter - epics , he began in 1925 in the most remote Styrian municipality of Saint Martin on Wöllmißberg where it a memorial dedicated today. The action takes place in the fictional community of Übelbach. This meant the market town of Mönichkirchen (am Wechsel), whose residents have forgiven him for the unflattering description and honor him with annual readings. The poem was filmed in 1950 by Gustav Ucicky under the title Cordula .
  • All works . Historical-critical edition in 8 volumes with the participation of Otto Rommel ed. v. Lilly wild goose. Vienna / Salzburg: Joint publishing house Bellaria / Pustet, 1948

literature

  • Max Adler (ed.): Festschrift for Wilhelm Jerusalem on his 60th birthday. With contributions by Max Adler, Rudolf Eisler , Sigmund Feilbogen, Rudolf Goldscheid, Stefan Hock, Helen Keller, Josef Kraus, Anton Lampa, Ernst Mach , Rosa Mayreder , Julius Ofner , Josef Popper , Otto Simon, Christine Touaillon and Anton Wildgans. Wilhelm Braumüller publishing house, Vienna and Leipzig 1915.
  • Carmen Friedel: The young Anton Wildgans. From the experience of an inhibited life to the ideal of poetry as an aid to life (= European university publications. Series 1, German language and literature. 1541). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-631-49139-5 .
  • Heinz Gerstinger : The playwright Anton Wildgans (= playwright, plays, perspectives. 5). Wagner Verlag, Innsbruck 1981, ISBN 3-7030-0092-9 .
  • Franz Hadriga: Drama Burgtheater Direction. On the failure of the idealist Anton Wildgans. Herold, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7008-0380-X .
  • Heinrich Eduard Jacob : Anton Wildgans. In: Weltstimmen (= world books in outline. ), Vol. 5, booklet 7, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1931, pp. 289–293.
    Jacob's contribution was broadcast in advance on April 16, 1931 as a radio address via RAVAG (Radio-Verkehrs AG Wien) on the occasion of Wildgans' 50th birthday.
  • Gertrud Schelbert-Büchi: Anton Wildgans. Dissertation. University of Zurich 1943.
  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 654.
  • Bernhard M. Baron : Anton Wildgans - an Austrian poet with ancestors from the Upper Palatinate. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat . Volume 43, Weiden id OPf. 1999, ISBN 3-928901-11-7 , pp. 123-127.
  • Klaus Kastberger : Anton Wildgans. Rightly forgot. In: Volltext 2018, Issue 1, pp. 6–9. Article online at academia.edu

Web links

Commons : Anton Wildgans  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Holdings in the catalog of the Austrian National Library Vienna

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Reich Poet Foundation. In: Wiener Zeitung , December 3, 1925, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Wild goose, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright and poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1932
Place of death Mödling