Ernst worm

Ernst Wurm (born June 30, 1906 in Katzelsdorf , † September 30, 1971 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Ernst Wurm was born the fifth child after four girls to a forester from the Waldviertel in Katzelsdorf, who at that time was in the service of the Duke of Parma. When he was two years old, the family moved to Sigleß near Sopron , where the father joined the Hartig and Rottermann family. He attended the Hungarian elementary school. After the early death of his father, Ernst Wurm moved to Wiener Neustadt to live with foster parents, especially since his mother Anna, née Kainz, was from Wiener Neustadt. In Wiener Neustadt he attended the lower secondary school and the municipal commercial school. As a teenager he had contacts with the Wiener Neustädter Stadttheater and took private acting lessons in Vienna. He found work as a commercial clerk and tried his hand at writing. Wurm had valuable encounters in Berlin, where Ullstein called him for meetings and lectures - he received a monthly fixed salary for two years - and was able to quit his job as a commercial clerk in 1930. The play Stossenfreund und Auguste was acquired by the Stadttheater Berlin in 1931 ; a performance with Walter Rilla was planned, but did not take place. With the novella Mitnichten der Messiah he had his first self-reading in 1932 on the Berlin transmitter. He read with Paula Ludwig and got to know Paul Wiegler , Ödön von Horváth , Erich Mühsam , Ina Seidel and Armin T. Wegner . Max Krell and Max Tau checked his work. With Alexander Moissi he had conversations about Tolstoy, Christ and Budda.

Ernst was chairman of the Lower Austrian Heimatwerk and organized poetry readings in the marble hall of the Lower Austrian provincial government.

Awards

• 1955 State Prize premium at the playwright competition
• 1962 Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria
• 1962 professional title professor
• 1966 Ring of Honor of the City of Wiener Neustadt
• 1971 Silver city coat of arms pin of the city of Wiener Neustadt
• 1971 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
• 1972 Name of Ernst-Wurm-Gasse in the so-called Dichterviertel in Wiener Neustadt
• 1973 Memorial showcase with death mask and works in the Stadtmuseum Wiener Neustadt
• Prof. Ernst Wurm Gasse in Katzelsdorf

Publications

• As long as the earth stands. Roman, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1934. The Kölnische Zeitung brought the preprint.
• The strength of him was powerful. A Georg Friedrich Handel novel. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1935.
• The eagle. Novel of Joan of Navarre . Speidel, Vienna 1936.
• The hero of Nedea. Roman, Speidel, Vienna 1937.
• Agneta table. A Transylvanian ore. Gerh. Stalling, Oldenburg 1937.
• Music like a sword. Story, Grotes Aussaat-Bücher Volume 21, Grote, Berlin 1938.
• The singer. To: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient , Grotes Aussaat-Bücher Volume 24, Grote, Berlin 1938.
• Guest and God's land. A Handel novel. Kaiser Verlag, Boehm. Leipa 1940.
• The unfinished. A novel from Austria's difficult time. Kaiser Verlag, Boehm. Leipa 1940.
• The fair of the pigeon. 2 musician stories. The Hundred Little Books Volume 11, Zsolnay, Vienna 1940.
• Medea from the forest. Roman , ÖVA, Vienna 1972.

literature

• Walter Edelbauer : I don't want to have lived in vain - Ernst Wurm: 1906 - 1971. On behalf of the Culture Office of the City of Wiener Neustadt, Merbod Verlag, Wiener Neustadt 1996, ISBN 3-900844-42-9 .
• Romeo Felsenreich: The Journalists of the Völkischer Beobachter - Where did they come from? Where did they go , University of Vienna, Master's thesis, Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, September 2012, especially pp. 125–126.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Wurm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Ernst Wurm in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )