Curt Rotter

Curt Rotter (born November 16, 1881 in Vienna ; † April 10, 1945 there ) was an Austrian German philologist and folk music researcher . In 1912 he was appointed chairman of the “Working Committee for the Folk Song in Salzburg” and in 1918, after Josef Pommer's suicide on November 25th, he also took over the chairmanship of the Austrian Folksong Company .

biography

After his Abitur at the kk Elisabeth-Gymnasium in 1900 and already during his subsequent military service, Rotter enrolled at the University of Vienna in 1901. There he became a member of the Teutonia Vienna fraternity in 1901 . He completed his German studies in Berlin with a dissertation on the "Schnaderhüpfl rhythm". While working for the Salzburg Working Committee, he had to take part in the First World War from August 1, 1914 to May 28, 1919 . In that year he began his professional career at the Vienna University Library, from where he finally moved to the library of what is now the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . He finally reached the peak of his professional career in 1938, when he was given the management of this library, which he held until his death. On February 14th, Curt Rotter married Alice, b. Zhuber von Okrog, with whom he had two children, Lisbet (* 1925) and Adelheid (* 1929). In 1943 he joined the NSDAP .

On April 12, 1945, when the Russians were already in front of Vienna, he (presumably) committed suicide in the Jewish cemetery in Währing .

literature

Kurt Conrad : Curt Rotter for his 100th birthday . In: Reports and communications of the Salzburg home care . Volume 5, 1981, No. 3, pp. 145f.
G. Haid: Rotter Kurt (Curt). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 296.
Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann: Rotter Curt . In: Adolf Haslinger and Peter Mittermayr (eds.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon . Salzburg 2001, p. 428.

Individual evidence

↑ In the following summarized from: Margot Koller and Thomas Hochradner: Curt Rotter (1881–1945) . In: Thomas Hochradner (Ed.): Folk music in Salzburg. Songs and Schnaderhüpfl around 1900 from the collection of the "Working Committee for the Folk Song in Salzburg" , Vienna: Böhlau 2008 (COMPA 19).
^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 429.
^ Curt Rotter: The Schnaderhüpfl-Rhythm. Verse and period structure of the Ostälpischen dance song together with an appendix of self-collected songs. A shape investigation . Berlin 1912 (Palaestra. Studies and texts from German and English philology 106).

personal data
SURNAME	Rotter, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian folk music researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	April 10, 1945
Place of death	Vienna

[1] In the following summarized from: Margot Koller and Thomas Hochradner: Curt Rotter (1881–1945) . In: Thomas Hochradner (Ed.): Folk music in Salzburg. Songs and Schnaderhüpfl around 1900 from the collection of the "Working Committee for the Folk Song in Salzburg" , Vienna: Böhlau 2008 (COMPA 19).

[2] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 429.

[3] Curt Rotter: The Schnaderhüpfl-Rhythm. Verse and period structure of the Ostälpischen dance song together with an appendix of self-collected songs. A shape investigation . Berlin 1912 (Palaestra. Studies and texts from German and English philology 106).