Gunsmith Rosl

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Portrait of the gunsmith Rosl as a colored postcard motif
Photographer: Alois Machnitsch II
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The gunsmith Rosl ( vulgar name of Rosina Maria Friedrich ; born January 6, 1858 in Aflenz , † March 7, 1933 in Feldbach ) was a well-known Austrian grimace cutter whose portrait became known worldwide as a postcard from the 1970s .

Life

Rosina Friedrich was the daughter of the gunsmith Adalbert Friedrich and his wife Barbara Friedrich, née Holetz. The gunsmith Rosl worked as a waitress, nanny and laundress. On the side she did card reading and fortune telling . In old age she made her living by grimacing. Her best-known grimace was immortalized in 1928 by Aflenz photographer Alois Machnitsch II with a plate camera . Most recently she lived in the former Köhlerhütte on Kohlplatz in Jauring / Aflenz. She died in 1933 at the age of 75 in a nursing home in Feldbach.

Posthumous notoriety

Rosina Friedrich became famous more than thirty years after her death, because in 1966 the photographer Peter Cermak from Mariazell discovered the original picture when he took over the photo business of a Mr. Machnitsch and had it colored by a painter friend. After a small edition, he received an order for 12,000 of these postcards from a major Carinthian publisher. The portrait of the gunsmith Rosl then went around the world in this colored version and is still used today. B. to buy as a postcard in relevant souvenir shops in tourist areas in Upper Bavaria. Overall, the postcard, which has been published by the Garmisch photo publisher Hans-Peter Huber (Fotoverlag Huber GmbH & Co. KG) since 1971, has sold well over two million times.

reception

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Since 2011 there has been a bronze bust of Rosina Friedrich at the Alpengasthof Bodenbauer ( Sankt Ilgen ) on the Panoramaweg at the foot of the Hochschwab , created from summer 2007 by Klaus Gaar (* 1969) on behalf of the Styrian state government. In 2013 the camera with which it was photographed was exhibited under the motto 155 years of “Gunsmith Rosl” in the Hochschwab Museum in Sankt Ilgen.

literature

  • Hans Fegert: The gunsmith Rosl. In: We! In Ingolstadt & Bavaria. Edition April 2016, pp. 20–21. ( online ; PDF)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Wagner: Rosl's secret. In: SonntagsZeitung of October 2, 2016, p. 22.
  2. ^ A b Hans Fegert: The gunsmith Rosl. In: We! In Ingolstadt & Bavaria. Edition April 2016, pp. 20–21. ( online ; PDF)
  3. ↑ Aflenz. In: Gunnar Strunz: Styria. The green heart of Austria. Trescher Verlag, 2014, p. 149. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ↑ Gunsmith Rosl , Central Water Supply Hochschwab Süd,
  5. ↑ 155 years of "Gunsmith Rosl" ( Memento from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), st-ilgen.at
personal data
SURNAME Gunsmith Rosl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich, Rosina Maria (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian grimace tailor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Aflenz , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1933
Place of death Feldbach , Austria