Carl Dallago

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Carl Dallago (1869–1949), caricature by Max von Esterle in the Brenner , 1911.

Carl Dallago (born January 13, 1869 in Bozen , Austria-Hungary ; † January 18, 1949 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian writer , natural philosopher and author of reviews .

Life

Dallago came from a Bolzano merchant family. After selling his father's business, he worked as a freelance writer and worked for various national liberal , anti-clerical magazines, among others. a. The Scherer and Tiroler Wastl , as well as the most important Tyrolean cultural magazine Der Brenner , which was founded especially for him by Ludwig von Ficker .

Dallago was a radical critic of the bourgeoisie, whose members he referred to as "Philistines", as well as the Catholic Church, and was considered an "enfant terrible" in the Tyrolean literary scene at the beginning of the 20th century.

From 1922 to 1926 he lived with his family in Nago on Lake Garda , where he wrote the works Die Rote Fahne and Die Diktatur des Wahns , in which he criticized Mussolini's fascist regime.

Based in Arzl in North Tyrol from 1932 onwards, Dallago was a staunch opponent of National Socialism and ideologically approached socialism without ever becoming politically active. Art remained his field of activity; In 1932 he worked alongside Werner Kraft , Werner von Trott zu Solz , Friedrich Punt and Josef Leitgeb as a contributor to the magazine Der Sumpf, published by Wilhelm Kütemeyer , and from 1935 wrote for the magazine Neue Wege .

Dallago studied the philosophical writings of Pierre Ramus , Laotse and Søren Kierkegaard .

In 1949 he died of a stroke in Innsbruck. He is buried in the cemetery in Mühlau , not far from his sponsor Ludwig von Ficker and his friend Georg Trakl .

Works

  • Poems . Pierson, Dresden / Leipzig 1900.
  • A summer. Dance of songs. Ebering, Berlin 1901.
  • Currents. New poems. Tiroler Verlag (FJ Gaßner), Innsbruck 1902.
  • Winter days and other [prose]. Dege, Leipzig 1902.
  • Reflections. A lyrical album. Dege, Leipzig 1903.
  • The South. Cultural forays of a lonely person. Dege, Leipzig 1905.
  • Erich Tagusen or Children of Light. A lyrical drama in three acts. Dege, Leipzig 1905.
  • New spring. Dege, Leipzig 1906.
  • The music of the mountains. Artist drama in three acts. Dege, Leipzig 1906.
  • Peal of the landscape. Cultural forays of a lonely person. Dege, Leipzig 1907.
  • A human. Novel in pictures. Juncker, Berlin / Stuttgart / Leipzig 1909.
  • The book of uncertainties. Forays of a lonely one. Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1911.
  • Philistine Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1912.
  • Otto Weininger and his work. Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1912.
  • Jesus of Nazareth. Contemplations of a lonely. (Xenien books 21). Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1913.
  • The evil seven. Essays. Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1914.
  • About a work by Sören Kierkegaard and the philosophy of inwardness. Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1914.
  • Lao-tse. Twelve sayings. The 12, group of revolutionary artists, Berlin 1920s.
  • Laotse. The connection to the law or the big connection. Attempt to reproduce Taoteking. Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1921.
  • The Christ Kierkegaard (1914). Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1922.
  • The great ignoramus. Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1924.
  • The dictatorship of madness. Bugra, Vienna 1928.
  • The Roman ulcer. Lányi, Vienna 1929.
  • After thirty years. Review of the non-writer. Lányi, Vienna 1929.
  • Man and existence. Poems collected by himself on his birthday. Lányi, Vienna 1930.
  • The Catholic Action. Wolfgang Jeß, Dresden 1932.

literature

  • Dallago, Carl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 167.
  • Carl Dallago - The great ignorant. Eds. Karin Dalla Torre, Johann Holzner, Paul Renner, Anton Unterkircher, Silvano Zucal. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-1962-5 .
  • Anton Unterkircher: I haven't achieved anything. Carl Dallago 1869-1949. Edition Brenner-Forum, StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7065-5300-1 .
  • Carl Dallago , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 111-114

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anton Unterkircher: I haven't achieved anything. Carl Dallago (1869–1949) , Innsbruck 2013, p. 72, describes him as a “notorious naysayer”.
personal data
SURNAME Dallago, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dallago, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1949
Place of death innsbruck