Ernst Hammer (writer)

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Ernst Hammer (born March 24, 1924 in Stanz im Mürz Valley , Styria , † April 20, 1990 in Graz ) was an Austrian narrator and poet .

Life

After serving in the Second World War , Hammer worked as a translator for the English military administration in Graz. Then he was unemployed or he got by with various temporary jobs, worked as a book salesman, spokesman in a propaganda vehicle and election worker. From 1950 to 1960 he was an unskilled worker in a Graz printing company, although at that time he was already counted among the most important post-war writers in Austria.

In 1956 he was awarded a scholarship from the Carl Bertelsmann Foundation for the Promotion of Young Authors . From 1960 he worked as an office worker before he found a suitable job under Alfred Holzinger as a permanent employee and lecturer in the Graz studio of the Austrian broadcasting company . In 1963 he received the Peter Rosegger Prize and in 1968 the main prize. In 1983 he was awarded the Graz City Prize.

He was "... with a keen eye for the real with its serious and humorous situations" a narrator with a "social touch", as Ernst Kindermann described him in 1954. His colleague and friend Gerhard Fritsch dedicated the long poem This Dark is called Night to him .

Works

  • When it becomes dumpa - Styrian stories , Leykam-Verlag, Graz, 1950
  • P etelka comes home , Leykam-Verlag, Graz, 1952
  • Dust under the sun , Otto Müller, Salzburg 1960
  • Rain in the afternoon (short stories), Otto Müller, Salzburg 1962
  • Ramint. Novel of a cautious life , Otto Müller, Salzburg, 1965
  • A moment of weakness ( short stories), Styria Verlag, Graz, 1977 ISBN 3-22210964-8

literature

  • Stefan Alker, Andreas Brandtner (eds.): Gerhard Fritsch , special number, Vienna, 2005 ISBN 978-3-85449245-0 , p. 258
  • Norbert Langer : Poets from Austria , Volume 5, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1967, p. 50

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Kindermann: Guide to modern literature in Austria , Österreichische Verlags-Anstalt, 1954
  2. ↑ Gerhard Fritsch: This darkness is called night. A poem. New seal from Austria, vol. 11, Bergland, Vienna 1955
personal data
SURNAME Hammer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian narrator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanz im Mürz Valley , Styria
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1990
Place of death Graz , Austria