Emil Reich

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Memorial plaque at the Emil-Reich-Hof

Emil Reich (born October 29, 1864 in Koritschan , Austria-Hungary , † December 13, 1940 in Vienna ) was an Austrian literary scholar and author , art patron and founder of adult education centers .

Life

Childhood in Moravia and Vienna

Reich was born in Koritschan in the Crown Land of Moravia , a town with a Jewish community, as the son of a family of glass manufacturers (cut glass as well as utility glass). The family moved to Vienna a year after his birth.

Professional background

At the University of Vienna he studied economics, history and aesthetics. At the age of 22, Reich received his doctorate in philosophy and habilitated in practical philosophy (ethics) and aesthetics in 1890. From 1904 to 1933 he was an associate professor of aesthetics , but he was denied a full professorship. Reich became known primarily for his lectures and publications on Grillparzer and Ibsen , but also as an art critic. In 1890 he was involved with Robert von Zimmermann in founding the Grillparzer Society and the Volkstheater .

At least from 1924 to 1929 - during this phase Reich took over the editorial management as deputy editor of the New Vienna Journal - Reich worked as a journalist.

Founder and developer of adult education centers

Reich tried to make the knowledge of science accessible to a broad audience, especially the working class, and was committed to popular education as a functionary, lecturer and publicist. In 1895 he was involved in the introduction of the “popular university lectures”. In 1901, together with Ludo Moritz Hartmann, he founded the Volksheim Ottakring adult education center - Vienna's first adult education center . He gave lectures at the German Adult Education Conference, which began in 1904, and promoted the cause of popular education at workers' meetings.

Patron of art

Empire was the board of trustees for Julius Reich Prize his brother Julius Reich, which was awarded to young writers and painters. Prize winners included Hilde Spiel and Friedrich Torberg .

Corporate state and Nazi Germany

The function of Volksheim secretary, which Reich had exercised from 1901, he had to resign in 1934 for political reasons. From 1933 onwards, the clerical-conservative dictatorship had begun to exert massive influence on the Volksheim's program, removing politically unpopular speakers or replacing them with people who were compatible with the regime. At a meeting in December 1934, Reich advocated a boycott of these lecturers in the Volksheim, which the Arbeiter-Zeitung published in Brno's emigration had reported approvingly. At a popular education conference of the Catholic Action in 1935, accusations were made against Reich and Viktor Matejka .

After the Anschluss in 1938, Reich was further isolated not only for political reasons, but also by the Nuremberg Laws , and he died alone.

Grave in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall

His grave is in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall . It is one of the grave sites of the city of Vienna that are dedicated or taken into custody on account of honor.

Works (selection)

  • Schopenhauer as a philosopher of tragedy. A critical study . Konegen, Vienna 1888.
  • Grillparzer's philosophy of art . Manz, Vienna 1890.
  • Gian Vincenzo Gravina as an aesthetician. A contribution to the history of art philosophy . Reprint from the meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Tempsky, Vienna 1890.
  • The bourgeois art and the dispossessed people classes . W. Friedrich, Leipzig 1892.
  • Franz Grillparzer's dramas. Fifteen lectures . Pierson, Dresden 1894.
  • Popular university movement . Steiger, Bern 1897.
  • Art and Morality: An Aesthetic Inquiry . Manz, Vienna 1901.
  • Henrik Ibsen's dramas. Twenty lectures held at the University of Vienna . S. Fischer, Berlin 1902 (first edition).
  • From life and poetry. Articles and lectures . Adolf Kröner, Leipzig 1911.
  • Community ethics. After lectures on practical philosophy held at the University of Vienna . Rohrer, Vienna 1935

Award

literature

Web links

Commons : Emil Reich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut W. Lang (Ed.): Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI). Edited at the Austrian National Library. Series 2: Austrian Newspapers 1492–1945, Volume 3: Bibliography of Austrian Newspapers 1621–1945, N – Z, Verlag KG Saur, Munich 2003, p. 62
  2. ↑ Knowledge Base Adult Education Short biography of Emil Reich
  3. ^ Wiener Volkshochschulen Christian H. Stifter: Wiener Volkshochschulen. The beginning of the end. Austrofascism and National Socialism , vhs Magazin, February 2007.
  4. ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Graves dedicated to honor in the fire hall Simmering cemetery (PDF 2016), accessed on March 7, 2018
  5. ^ Resolution of the municipal council committee for culture of December 21, 1957; Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 2. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, p. 179, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Rich, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary scholar and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Korichan , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1940
Place of death Vienna