Erwin H. Rainalter

Erwin Herbert Rainalter (born June 6, 1892 in Constantinople , † October 29, 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

Erwin H. Rainalter was the son of an Austrian official who worked for the Austrian Levantepost in Saloniki . Erwin H. Rainalter grew up in Saloniki and attended school there; later he was a student at the Piaristengymnasium Krems with Eduard Kranner , where he passed his school leaving examination. He then studied German and Romance languages as a working student at the University of Vienna for a few semesters . For economic reasons, he was forced this study cancel . He worked temporarily as a typist in a law firm and then switched to journalism . Rainalter provided articles for the feature pages of "Wiener Mittags", the " Salzburger Volksblatt " (1918 to 1923) and the " Neue Freie Presse ".

Later Erwin H. Rainalter was based in Berlin . After he had already emerged in the 1920s as a supporter of a “ Greater German solution ” in the relationship between the German Reich and Austria, he resigned from the Austrian PEN Club in 1933 and was one of the founders of the National Socialist “ Ring of National Writer ”. Rainalter wrote theater reviews for the “ Völkischer Beobachter ” and the “ Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger ”. After Austria's annexation to the German Reich in March 1938, which he welcomed enthusiastically, he returned to Vienna, where he lived as a freelance writer. From 1938 to 1939 he was editor-in-chief of the “ Neue Wiener Tagblatt ”.

In addition to his journalistic work, Erwin H. Rainalter was the author of novels , stories and poems . His narrative works are often set in Tyrol or deal with topics from Austrian history .

Works

• “Back then and today” , Hanover 1916
• The menagerie , Vienna [u. a.] 1920
• The mission , Reichenberg i. B. 1922
• The sold homeland , Munich 1928
• Homecoming , Leipzig 1931
• Storm over the country , Leipzig 1932
• In narrow streets , Leipzig 1934
• The Sandwirt , Berlin [u. a.] 1935
• The faithful servant , Berlin [u. a.] 1936
• The great wandering , Berlin [u. a.] 1936
• The messenger , Leipzig 1937
• Gestalten and Encounters , Berlin [a. a.] 1937
• In God's hand , Berlin 1937
• The story of my grandfather , Berlin [u. a.] 1939
• Mirabell , Vienna [a. a.] 1941
• Music of Life , Berlin 1941
• Cleopatra's granddaughters , Vienna 1942
• The beautiful Beatrice , Berlin [u. a.] 1942
• Waltz in the moonlight , Leipzig 1942
• Stories from yesterday and today , Berlin 1943
• The Roman vineyard , Berlin [u. a.] 1948
• The only woman , Vienna 1949
• The girl Veronika , Vienna 1950
• Clouds in spring , Vienna 1950
• The soul awakens , Vienna 1951
• Three little dogs , Vienna 1952
• Silent melody , Stuttgart 1953
• Poor beautiful Empress , Hamburg 1954
• Violins of God , Hamburg [a. a.] 1956
• Elegant Viennese Equipage portraits , Stuttgart 1958
• Hellbrunn , Hamburg [a. a.] 1958
• Imperial maneuver , Hamburg [a. a.] 1960

Editing

• The big arch , Berlin 1939.
• The Ostmark tells . A collection of young German poetry, Zeitgeschichte-Verlag Wilhelm Andermann, Berlin 1939.
• Nasir-ad-Din : Master Nasr-eddin's Schwänke , Vienna [u. a.] 1943.
• Dinko Šimunović : Salko, der Alkar , Vienna [u. a.] 1943.

literature

• Christian Wiesler: Erwin Herbert Rainalter, the writer and Dr. Hugo Jury, the doctor , Vienna 2009

Web links

• Erwin H. Rainalter in the "Lexicon Literature in Tyrol"
• Erwin H. Rainalter in the "AEIOU Austria Lexicon"
• Literature by and about Erwin H. Rainalter in the catalog of the German National Library