Carl Hans Watzinger

Carl Hans Watzinger (born September 7, 1908 in Steyr ; † September 27, 1994 in Linz ) was an Austrian author and journalist . He also wrote under the pseudonym Bernhard Stauffer .

Live and act

Watzinger was originally an electrical engineer at the Steyr works . From 1936 to 1938 he stayed in Jena and began to write. The first publications were made due to contacts with the publishers Eugen Diederichs and Adam Kraft . From 1938 he lived in Linz and worked for the daily mail (Linz) , the Volksstimme and the farmer's newspaper of the Reichsnährstands . Together with numerous other authors he contributed to the confessional book of Austrian poets .

He became known for his historical novels with a German national tendency, with his Luther novel, Mensch aus Gotteshand, from 1938 being the most successful. He also wrote short stories, essays, plays, comedies, games and radio plays.

During the war he was responsible for agitation at the Reichsnährstand and was promoted by Reich Minister Erich Darré . In 1944 he published in the National Socialist Bozner Tagblatt .

After the war, he was initially banned from working for three years and then worked for many years as a freelance journalist for the ORF in Linz, where he mainly created pictures of Upper Austrian personalities and radio plays.

In 1947/1948 he worked as a film dramaturge and teacher for literary studies , theater history and dramaturgy . From 1954 he was editor-in-chief of a weekly magazine.

In 1967 he wrote the libretto for the operetta Everything speaks of Charpillon by Igo Hofstetter .

In 1970 he wrote the play Franz Jägerstätter or Self-Defense - A Bitter Comedy that has not yet been performed.

He was a member of the Innviertel artists' guild . He was married to Ulrike from 1947.

Works

• A lot of noise - and none. Drama in four acts Heros , Vienna 1932.
• Five glider pilots. Play in 4 acts . Höfle, Vienna, Berlin [1936].
• Grabbe, the poet of a new German empire . In: Deutschlands Erneuerung, vol. 20 (1936), pp. 543-546.
• Martin the servant. A village tragedy in 5 acts . Force. Carlsbad 1937.
• Game in St. Agathen. Novel. Diederichs, Jena 1937.
• Man from God's hand: a Luther novel . Kraft, Karlsbad [u. a.] 1938.
• The lien. Narration . Diederichs, Jana 1938.
• Upper Danube, the home of the Führer . Styria, Graz 1938 (Die deutsche Bergbücherei; 31).
• Coming home from the city: narrative . Kraft, Karlsbad (1940).
• Klaus and his family: story . Sterische Verlags Anstalt, Graz 1940.
• The peasant wedding: Roman. Kraft, Karlsbad [etc.] (1942)
• The runner of marathon: historical stories. Field post issue . Kraft, Leipzig [a. a.] 1942 (Volksdeutsche series; 45).
• Man from God's hand: a Luther novel . Kraft, Karlsbad [u. a.] 1942.
• The carver from Kefermarkt. Narratives . Kraft, Karlsbad [u. a.] 1943.
• Emperor, Elector, Lord and Farmer . Wancura, [Vienna] 1952.
• The Chronicle of Vincent van Gogh . Wancura, Vienna [a. a.] 1953.
• together with Richard Kutschera: I'm staying in Eisenstadt: Michael Blümelhuber and the art of steel cutting. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1965
• Erdseele: Poems based on sculptures and woodcuts by Ernst Barlach , Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Ried im Innkreis [1973].
• Jörg Reitter 1898–1944: Memorial exhibition; Upper Austrian State Museum, September 19 – October 31, 1975. Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz 1975 (catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum; 92).
• Josef Furthner 1890–1971, sculptor and picture carver; Exhibition at the Landesbildungszentrum Zell an der Pram, 23 May to 31 August 1980 . Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, Linz 1980.
• Michael Blümelhuber, Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, Moriz Enzinger: creative encounters beyond contemporary history; Biographies . Ernstthaler, Steyr 1982, ISBN 3-85068-114-9 .

Awards

• Prof. Carl Hans Watzinger-Strasse was named after him in 1997 in Steyr.
• Literature Promotion Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
• Awarded the title of Professor hc
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
• Medal of Honor of the City of Steyr (1978)

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Hans Watzinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Carl Hans Watzinger in the Austria Forum
• Entry on Carl Hans Watzinger by Arnold Klaffenböck for the Upper Austrian literary history of the StifterHaus

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bibliography Carl Hans Watzinger in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
2. ↑ Bozner Tagblatt , edition of September 30, 1944, p. 4: Article “ The power of community ”.
3. ^ Prof. Carl Hans Watzinger-Strasse. ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Steyr, In: Web presence of the Magistrate Steyr.  
4. ↑ Carl Hans Watzinger. In: Estates in Austria - Personal Lexicon. On the website of the Austrian National Library.
5. ^ Everything speaks of Charpillon, program booklet Landestheater Linz, 1967/1968
6. ↑ Why a former Nazi writer wrote a Jägerstätter play. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Web presence of the church newspaper of the Diocese of Linz from August 19, 2011.