Ernst Goll

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Ernst Goll
Ernst Goll, handwritten: I put my heart in your hand, April 15, 1910

Ernst Goll (born March 14, 1887 in Windischgraz , † July 13, 1912 in Graz ) was an Austrian poet.

Life

Ernst Goll was born as the son of the postmaster and hotelier Ernest Goll in Windischgraz, Lower Styria (today Slovenj Gradec in Slovenia ). After eight years of high school in Marburg an der Drau (today Maribor ), he came to Graz in autumn 1905. At the University of Graz , he first studied law for three semesters, then switched to German and Romance studies, but did not graduate: After private conflicts, he fell to his death in the summer of 1912 from the second floor of the University of Graz.

Afterlife

Goll had already made a name for himself as a poet during his lifetime, for example through his first poetry publications in the features section of the Grazer Tagespost , whose editor-in-chief Ernst Décsey was one of his staunch supporters. After his tragic untimely death the demand for a book edition of his poems quickly arose. It was published at the end of 1912 by the then renowned Berlin publisher Egon Fleischel, compiled and edited by Julius Franz Schütz , one of the poet's closest friends. The book, entitled Im bitteren Menschenland , has been reissued over and over again over the years (1919, 1926, 1935, 1943, 1947 and 1982), in some cases with an expanded set of texts.

Recently, a bilingual selection volume (Slovenian / German) with biographical appendix and numerous photographs (1997) as well as a historical-critical edition of works (2012) with previously unpublished works (including prose fragments, drama fragment "Elsa or the end of a childhood") was added um ein Nachlese (2015), which contains correspondence pieces, occasional poems and texts on theater, both edited by the Graz author and literary scholar Christian Teissl .

In a book published in three languages, 3 Ways - 3 poti - 3 percorsi: Ernst Goll, Srečko Kosovel, Calro Michelstaedter , three life paths are presented, which are similar due to their origins from the Styrian-Slovenian or Italian-Slovenian border area and an early death are so very different. In a similar way, Antje Wagner-Kolar Goll devotes a chapter in her book Ein Herz goes out - The death of young poets in the 19th and 20th centuries . The two Southeast Styrian local historians Christa Schillinger and Franz Josef Schober carried out fundamental work on the family history of the poet, based on extensive archive research.

Goll's poems were set to music by numerous composers. Recently (2012) the CD Between Today and Tomorrow by the Graz group Ilmala was released with chansons based on poems by Ernst Goll. The theme song is sung in two languages.

Goll's estate is in the Styrian State Library .

Works

  • Ernst Goll: In the bitter human land. Postponed poems . Fleischel, Berlin 1912.
  • Ernst Goll: In the bitter human land - The collected work , ed. by Christian Teissl , Igel Verlag Literatur & Wissenschaft, Hamburg 2012.
  • Ernst Goll: A gleanings , ed. by Christian Teissl , Graz 2015 (= publications of the Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek, vol. 39).
  • Ernst Goll: first prints 1910 to 1912. Graz: self-published by Christian Teissl 2016

Discography

  • Margarete Schweikert: In the bitter human land. Songs for tenor and piano . With Bernhard Berchtold (tenor) and Jeannette La-Deur (piano and artistic project management). Florian Noetzel Verlag "Ars Musica", AM 7696.
  • Ilmala: Between today and tomorrow - chansons based on poems by Ernst Goll . Extraplatte, Vienna 2012.
  • Josef Wagnes: Songs . Gramola, 2015. Contains 6 songs by Ernst Goll.

literature

  • Hubert Fussy : The South Styrian poet Ernst Goll. New facts and perspectives on the life and work of the poet . In: Annual report of the 5th Bundesrealgymnasium Graz 1968/1969 , pp. 3–12.
  • Hubert Fussy: Ernst Goll's encounters with the poetry and music of his contemporaries . In: Kurt Bartsch , Dietmar Goltschnigg, Gerhard Melzer (eds.): The other world. Aspects of Austrian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Festschrift for Hellmuth Himmel on his 60th birthday . Francke, Bern 1979, pp. 215-230.
  • Hans Putzer : Self-extinction as the last word (PDF; 114 kB). In: Neues Land , No. 51/2004, December 17, 2004.
  • Bernhard Schweighofer : Franz Fuchs the Elder J. (1902–1988) on the 100th birthday - Ernst Goll (1887–1912) on the 90th anniversary of his death. Reprint of the cultural festival “Judenburger Summer 2002”, Judenburg 2002.
  • Goll Ernst. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 27.
  • Vinko Oslak (Ed.): V trpki deželi človeka / In the bitter human land . Cerdonis, Slovenj Gradec 1997.
  • Christian Teissl : Soaring and falling into death. On the 100th anniversary of the death of the Graz poet Ernst Goll. In: "extra" of the Wiener Zeitung of July 14, 2012. Readable online at http://www.poetenladen.de/christian-teissl-ernst-goll.php .
  • Christian Teissl : Prvi in ​​zadnji verzi Ernsta Golla . In: Odsevanja 93/94 (2014), pp. 74-77.
  • Tanja Leček : German-language love poetry of modernity: Ernst Goll (1872–1912) / Nemška Ljubezenska Lirika v Času Moderne: Ernst Goll (1872–1912) . Diploma thesis / Diplomsko Delo, Univerza v Mariboru, Filozofska Faketa, Maribor 2014.
  • Elisabeth Arlt, Andrej Leben, Andreas Stangl : 3 ways - 3 poti - 3 percorsi: Ernst Goll, Srečko Kosovel, Calro Michelstaedter . Article VII Cultural Association for Styria, Graz 2016.
  • Antje Wagner-Kolar : A Heart Goes Out - The Death of Young Poets in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Neobooks 2014
  • Christa Schillinger, Franz Josef Schober: About the family and the relationships of the poet Ernst Goll (1887-1912) to Southeast Styria. In: Announcements from the correspondents of the Historical Commission for Styria 12 (2017), pp. 261–271.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Jelka Samec Sekeres, Christian Teissl in Ernst Goll. In: Odsevanja 105/106 (2018), p. 90
  2. ↑ Robert Engele: Rise, Fall and Renewal of the State Library . In: Kleine Zeitung Graz from July 1, 2012, pp. 30–31.

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personal data
SURNAME Goll, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Windischgraz
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1912
Place of death Graz