Edwin Zellweker

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Edwin Zellweker (born April 9, 1883 in Vienna ; † April 1, 1953 there ) was an Austrian teacher, literary historian, cultural politician and writer.

Life

Edwin Zellweker studied German and history at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1905. In 1908 he passed the teaching examination. He was a teacher in Trieste , Krems and Krumau and finally in Vienna. In 1910 he married Irmgard Anna Crotogino.

In the First World War Zellweker was a reserve officer. After he returned to Vienna in 1918, he worked again as a teacher, then as the middle school director of the Realgymnasium in the 14th district . He also taught at adult education centers and was a teacher at the private high school of Eugenie Schwarzwald in Vienna. From 1920 to 1929 Edwin Zellweker wrote book reviews as a freelancer for the Arbeiter-Zeitung . In 1927 he became a member of the Lodge Lessing to the 3 rings of the Grand Lodge of Vienna. In 1929 he published the works of Ludwig Anzengruber , Franz Grillparzer and Adalbert Stifter for the Gutenberg Book Guild , and in 1931 the German reading books for school use. In 1933 he became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers . At the end of March 1934 he was forcibly retired as the school principal.

In 1945 he was a founding member of the Association of Democratic Writers and Journalists of Austria , which endeavored to denazify Austrian literature, as well as the newly founded Austrian League for Human Rights , which was banned in 1934 . On July 28, 1945 he was one of the 48 Freemasons still living in Vienna - there were around 800 before 1938 - who, with the Humanitas Renata collecting facility, revived the Freemasonry that was forbidden during the Nazi terror . From 1945 to 1949 he was section head in the Federal Ministry of Education for the cultural and popular education department . In this function he was also responsible for the revitalization of the adult education centers and the middle school for workers . For Edwin Zellweker, popular education was a guarantee for democracy. He published a large number of book reviews and reviews, etc. a. in the Wiener Zeitung . In 1951 he was responsible for a work by Johann Nestroy and William Shakespeare .

In 1953 he was awarded the City of Vienna Prize for Popular Education .

He died on April 1, 1953 at the age of 69 and was buried in an honorary grave at the Sieveringen cemetery . In 1961, Zellwekergasse in the 23rd district of Liesing in Vienna was named after him.

plant

  • Explanations of Grillparzer's "Sappho" , Paderborn 1912
  • Grillparzer. The golden fleece , Würzburg 1913
  • Explanations of Lessing's "Nathan the Wise , Paderborn 1913
  • Persecution of demagogues: the fate of German poets, 1815-1840 , Cologne 1913
  • Körner, Zriny , Würzburg 1914
  • From the German Revolution: German Poets' Fates 1840-1850 , Cologne 1914
  • A life: Goethe's life and work in documents , Leipzig 1917 (2nd edition 1932)
  • Explanations of Goethe's "Torquato Tasso" , Paderborn 1922
  • Adalbert Stifter's works , Vienna 1929
  • What should my child read? Guide for parents and professional educators , Vienna 1935
  • Happy creation - the book for young and old , Vienna 1947
  • Goethe in der Anecdote , Vienna 1935 (2nd edition 1947)
  • Troy: Three Millennia of Fame , Zurich 1947
  • State printing and philately , Vienna 1947
  • Marianne Willemer. Life picture of an Austrian woman , Vienna 1949
  • Bad Ischl. Becoming, essence, transformation , Bad Ischl 1951
  • The archetype of Sarastro Ignaz von Born , Vienna 1953
  • Emperor, artist, diplomat in Bad Ischl , Vienna 1962

literature

  • Ernst Bernardini: Who was Dr. Edwin Zellweker. In: The postage stamp. Post and philately in Austria. 09/2011, Volume 59, page 11
  • Daniela English: The Association of Democratic Writers and Journalists in Austria. Examples of cultural-political interest representation 1945–1949. Diploma thesis. 1996 ( available online )
  • Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Michaela Follner: Servants of many masters. Biographical manual of the section heads of the First Republic and 1945. Ed .: DÖW. Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1997. Pages 495–496

Web links

Commons : Edwin Zellweker  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter K. Kodek: Our building blocks are the people. The members of the Viennese Masonic lodges 1869–1938. Vienna, 2009 ISBN 978-3-85409-512-5 , p. 391
  2. ↑ State Office for Internal Security of the Republic of Austria regarding the reactivation of the League for Human Rights , 1945 in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society
  3. ^ Edwin Zellweker in: SPÖ shop steward . May 1953, 8 vol. Page 158. Copy in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society
  4. ↑ Edwin Zellweker: The Austrian Volksbildungswerk . In: Wiener Zeitung , October 23, 1945, page 3. Copy in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society
  5. ^ Zellwekergasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Zellweker, Edwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cell alarm clock, Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary historian, teacher, writer, cultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1953
Place of death Vienna