Erwin Ott

Erwin Ott (born December 9, 1892 in Jägerndorf , † December 14, 1947 in See near Lupburg ) was a Moravian teacher and writer .

biography

He attended elementary school and later the upper secondary school in Jägerndorf. He completed his training at the teacher training institute in Opava . Between 1914 and 1918 he took part in the First World War as a fighter in the Austro-Hungarian army. In November 1918 he was captured in Italy on the southern front. In September 1938, Ott was interned in the Czechoslovak camp for SdP functionaries in Stefanau . In May 1945 he was sent to the Czech labor camp for Germans in Opava due to the Beneš decrees . Ott died of the consequences of imprisonment after his release from this internment camp as a displaced person in Bavaria .

In addition to his academic achievements as a specialist German teacher, Ott was quite successful in literary terms and, along with Robert Hohlbaum and Hanns Cibulka, is one of the three most important authors who come from Jägerndorf. Its spectrum ranges from fictional representations to the poets Hölderlin and Lenau to contemporary historical works. He treated the end on the Italian front in 1918 as well as the fate of the Germans in the Sudetenland before 1938 and after 1945. The literary figures of Arnold Moschner and his wife Hedwig in his report Die Gefesselten (1949) bear the autobiographical traits of Erwin Ott and his wife Hedwig Ott (née Richter), born on February 8th, 1894 in Jägerndorf and died on September 27th, 1976 in Amberg / Bavaria, whose different fateful expulsions also represent many of their former country people.

Otts works partly existed in fair copies of his colleague Adolf Langheim, who also lived and died in Jägerndorf and later in Weimar .

The early editions were designed by the painter Fritz Raida .

literature

• Hedwig Ott (widow): Wallstein 1945–46. In: National newspaper v. January 21, 1966.
• G. Burgmann: The writer Erwin Ott: 1892-1947 (unedited lecture manuscript)
• The Sudeten German Erwin Ott. On the 10th anniversary of death [...]. In: Sudetendeutscher Kulturalmanach. 1 (1957). Pp. 23-25 ​​[with bibliography].

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Ott in the catalog of the German National Library