Erich Landgrebe
Erich Landgrebe (born January 18, 1908 in Vienna , † June 25, 1979 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian writer and painter .
Life
Erich Landgrebe was the son of a businessman. He studied at the Academy for Applied Arts in Vienna and at the University of World Trade . In 1930 he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg .
Landgrebe was a travel agency manager, painter and writer. In 1931 he went to the USA, from 1933 he was back in Vienna. In 1936 he was arrested by the state police due to his membership in the illegal Nazi cultural community , but released a short time later.
Landgrebe had been a member of the NSDAP since 1936 . In 1939 he was appointed acting administrator of the Aryanized Zsolnay publishing house and other Jewish publishers. From 1940 he worked as a war correspondent in Russia and Africa. From 1943 to 1946 he was an American prisoner of war.
In the post-war period, Landgrebe regretted his active participation in National Socialism , which many of his friends described as a "terrible mistake". He owed his positive role in the post-war literature business to good friends such as Hans Weigel , Viktor Matejka and Alfred Kubin . Hermann Hesse , Heinrich Böll , and Heimito von Doderer are named as further friends of Landgrebe .
Erich Landgrebe was a successful narrator of Austrian post-war literature. In the short prose he was based on American literature, e.g. B. Return to Paradise . In the later years of his life he turned more to painting. His pictures, which often depict trees and tree landscapes, can be found in numerous Austrian collections. His literary work includes novels, short stories, short prose, children's books and travelogues. He also wrote radio plays and feature articles and translated literature from English and French. Landgrebe wrote biographies about Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin . The Salzburg Literature Archive Foundation keeps Erich Landgrebe's literary estate .
Works
- The Young Year (1934)
- From Dimitrovsk to Dimitrovsk (1948); 1951 reissued under the title With the end it begins
- The nights of the Kuklino. A Nocturne (1952)
- In Seven Days (1954)
- Return to Paradise (1956)
- A painter named Vincent (1957)
- The Far Land of Paul Gauguin (1959)
- Fool of Luck (1962)
- Seal from Salzburg. An anthology (1972)
literature
- Adolf Haslinger, Peter Mittermayr (eds.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon , Residenz Verlag , Salzburg-Wien-Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-7017-1129-1
- Adalbert Schmidt: Landgrebe, Erich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 501 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Landgrebe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Erich Landgrebe in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Short biography of Erich Landgrebe (1908-1979) on the Salzburg Museum website for the Landgrebe exhibition from July 4, 2008 to March 1, 2009 (curator: Nikolaus Schaffer), accessed on October 17, 2016.
- Laudation by Hans Weigel on the painter and writer Erich Landgrebe on February 15, 1977 (audio recording in the Austrian media library ), accessed on October 17, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Murray G. Hall : The Paul-Zsolnay-Verlag: from the foundation to the return from exile (studies and texts on the social history of literature, volume 45). Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-484-35045-8
- ^ Roman Roček : Splendor and misery of the PEN: biography of a literary club. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000, p. 271.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landgrebe, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1979 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |