Emil Maria Steininger

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Emil Maria Steininger (born May 17, 1861 in Vienna ; † March 6, 1912 there ) was an Austrian writer and cultural critic.

Life

Steininger was interested in many things. He studied philosophy, history and art history at the University of Vienna and also attended a course on "History, Technology of Applied Arts" from Bruno Bucher , director of the Museum for Art and Industry.

He then devoted himself intensively to the work of Friedrich Hebbel , published several articles and gave a series of lectures on the playwright, so that he went down in the history of German philology as a "Hebbel researcher", but also wrote articles on the history of the Viennese arts and crafts and worked for a long time Time as secretary of the Vienna Arts and Crafts Association, wrote Musikfeuilletons for a weekly newspaper, in which he commented critically on the concert reviews of the daily press not only in the musical, but also in the political and cultural-political, and was a theater and cultural correspondent for a Berlin daily newspaper, the “Daily Rundschau " active. With Emil Steininger, who worked for the stage publisher and leaseholder of the Theater an der Wien , Wilhelm Karczag , and with Lehár in June 1909 , the “ Count of Luxembourg ”, which was completed for this theater in a very short time, with the legendary words: “ The Schmarrn is done, and if it is unsuccessful, it is your own credit! “Handed over, it was a namesake. For a short time (1906/07) Emil Maria Steininger, who had drawn attention to himself as an art critic and literary historian, was the successor of Carl Moll and Arthur Roessler,   however, also the Miethke Gallery , the “most distinguished Viennese private art institute”, so that he himself then in the yearbook of the Free German Hochstift in Frankfurt am Main as "a. gallery director a. D., Writer, Vienna ”.

Above all, however, Steininger confirmed himself as a writer, and as early as 1894 Peter Rosegger took one of his sonnets into his "home garden ". He wrote novels as well as serious and cheerful dramas, rascals and folk plays. For the unveiling of a monument to Archduke Albrecht , the eldest son of the victor of Aspern , Archduke Karl , on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the battle in May 1809, Steininger wrote a hymn and, the following year, self-published a festival play " Der Fähnrich von Aspern " .

In the Evangelical Cemetery Simmering of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate 4) Steininger was given a grave of honor as a "local literary great" (Group 3 No. 273).

Works (in selection)

  • Passion and love. Novella. 1883
  • You just have to know how to help yourself. Schwank (1887)
  • The inseparable. Novella (1890)
  • A legacy. drama
  • Misogynist. narrative
  • Shadow of the past. novel
  • Wanderletters from the Bohemian Forest (1895)
  • Mr. President. Folk play in three acts (1908)
  • The Ensign of Aspern. Dramatic poem in three acts (1910)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Zeitung No. 8225, 8228 and 8238, Vienna, November 21 and 24, December 4, 1894,
    in: Richard Maria Werner (Ed.): Friedrich Hebbel: Complete Works , Part 1, Vol. 10, p XXII
  2. ^ Emil Maria Steininger (1861–1912), Hebbel researcher. BJb. 18 (1917), list of the dead sp.63. In: Society for German Philology in Berlin (ed.): Annual report on the phenomena in the field of Germanic philology , vol. 39. German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, S. Calvary & Co, 1917, p. 15
  3. ^ Sandra McColl: Music Criticism in Vienna, 1896-1897. Critically Moving Forms. Oxford Monographies on Music. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1996, p. 97
  4. ↑ http://www.volksoper.at/Content.Node2/home/spielplan/spielplan_detail.php?eventid=1058709&eventinfo= Volksoper Vienna, program: The Count of Luxembourg ( Memento of the original from June 3, 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. (accessed on July 23, 2010)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksoper.at
  5. ↑ German National Library: “Emil Heinrich Steininger. Activity dates: 1909. Place of activity: Vienna. "
  6. ^ Elke Doppler-Wagner: On the artistic reception of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller . Diss. Univ. Vienna 2007, p. 11f. (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  7. ↑ Erich Felder: Arthur Roessler. A literary portrait sketch , Vienna 1917, p. 19;
    quoted from Elke Doppler-Wagner: On the artistic reception of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller . Diss. Univ. Vienna 2007, p. 11, note 43. (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  8. ↑ . Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift 1910 , Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1910, p. 42
  9. ↑ Peter Rosegger (Ed.): Der Heimgarten , Vol. 18, Leykam, 1894, p. 155
  10. ↑ Elisabeth Friedrichs: Local literary figures: 1700–1900 , JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1967, p. 315
  11. ^ Art and culture in Vienna - graves of honor

literature

  • Literary yearbook. Central organ for the scientific, literary and artistic interests of north-west Bohemia and the German border regions. Vol. 1, Hoursch & Bechstedt, 1903, p. 162
  • Hermann Clemens Kosel (Hrsg.): German-Austrian artist and writer lexicon, biographies of Viennese artists and writers , Verlag der Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie, Vienna 1905, vol. 1, p. 477f.

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personal data
SURNAME Steininger, Emil Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and cultural critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1912
Place of death Vienna