Arnold Hagenauer

Arnold Hagenauer , (born November 20, 1871 in Linz , † July 25, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and critic .

Life

Signature of Arnold Hagenauer

In Salzburg , Vienna, Carinthia and Passau, many buildings and works of art bear witness to the work of the famous brothers Wolfgang , Johann Baptist and Johann Georg von Hagenauer , from whom Arnold can derive his origins. Arnold von Hagenauer, the only son of the cashier Julius von Hagenauer and the clementine Mayr was born in Linz. Since he lost his parents very early, he grew up in Vienna with two aunts who took him in like their own child.

He graduated from high school and finally studied at the Vienna University of Veterinary Medicine . During his studies in 1891 he became a member of the Vienna fraternity Vandalia , whose honorary boy he later became. However, Hagenauer soon followed his literary inclinations, which led him to the circles of young Vienna in the mid-1890s. He became editor of the literary section of the "Ostdeutsche Rundschau" and worked for numerous newspapers and magazines. His strong and original talent for writing was encouraged by Ferdinand von Saar and Baron Detlev von Liliencron . He was a narrator modeled on Émile Zola and Guy de Maupassant .

He made his literary debut with the little volume of poetry Illusions , but remained unknown; it was only through his novel Muspilli that people became aware of him. This was followed by the novellas Die Perlen der Chloë and Das Ende der Salome , the novel Gottfrieds Sommer with the subtitle From the Diary of a Romantic and finally Der Knabe Leonhard - a Salzburg Biedermeier novel . In addition, numerous essays, novels and reviews have appeared in daily newspapers and magazines.

In the last years of his life, the bohemian seemed difficult to access and an eccentric. His large, elegant and always well-groomed appearance stood in stark contrast to his ever-changing, decrepit residences. He lived in very old, mostly in danger of being demolished, houses in Josefstadt, which meant he often changed his address. There was always a little poetry in his contrasting way of life. He saw Vienna as a “gloomy monster” and so he was repeatedly drawn away from the capital, mostly to the home of his ancestors in Salzburg. His last novel "Der Knabe Leonhard" is set in Salzburg during the Biedermeier period. The next novel (which had already been created in the concept), which was no longer to come, would have been a historical novel "about the Salzburg arch-bishopric", the Salzburg heyday of his ancestors. Tragically, after visiting a wine tavern in Grinzing / Vienna, Arnold Hagenauer fell into an abyss and was so badly injured that he succumbed to the injuries the following day.

Only a few friends from his student days accompanied him on his last trip to the Vienna Central Cemetery - partly because dying was commonplace during the war years, partly because his other family members had not known about his death.

Works

Wikisource: Arnold Hagenauer  - Sources and full texts

• Illusions , (poems) 1895
• Adah Hellmer , (acting) 1896
• Lyric Vienna , 1899
• Muspilli , Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, 1900 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
• The pearls of Chloë , Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, (presumably) 1901
• Gottfrieds Sommer , (autobiograph. Roman) Georg Müller Verlag, Munich, 1906
• The end of Salome , novella, Hans Huebner Verlag, Hanover, 1916
• Historical novellas , 1918
• Leonhard and Rosa , (novel), 1919
• The boy Leonhard (novel) in the Salzburger Volksblatt, 1919
• The boy Leonhard , in book form, R. Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg, ph. 1930

literature

• Hagenauer Arnold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 144.
• Franz Martin: Hundred Salzburg families, Verlag der Gesellschaft f. salzburg. Regional studies, Salzburg 1946
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 283-284.

Web links

• Arnold Hagenauer - Muspilli (novel)