Eugen Binder von Krieglstein

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Eugen Baron Binder von Krieglstein (born July 6, 1873 in Sankt Georgen Castle an der Stiefing in Styria ; † September 17, 1914 in Sieniawa, Galicia ) was an Austrian war correspondent and travel writer . Sometimes he also wrote under the names Eugen Krieglstein and Eugen Binder-Krieglstein .

Life

War correspondent

Von Krieglstein came from the Austrian noble family Binder von Krieglstein . He attended a high school in Graz as a privateist and then graduated from the infantry cadet school in Liebenau . After two years of service in a field-rifle battalion in the Transylvanian Sibiu he was discharged from the army in 1896; the reasons for this are unclear.

From 1897 to 1914, v. As war correspondent, Krieglstein took part in a total of 17 campaigns, revolutions and expeditions. In 1897 he reported on the Turkish-Greek war in Crete for the Wiener Fremd-Blatt . His partisanship for the Turks led to the capture by the Greeks. He was released again through diplomatic mediation; he then worked briefly for the press office of the Turkish Foreign Ministry in Constantinople. In the years 1897/98 v. Krieglstein as a newspaper correspondent about the revolutionary Cipriano Castro in Venezuela and in 1898 about the Spanish-American war . In 1900/01 he took part as a war correspondent in the Boxer Rebellion in China, in 1906 in the Russian Revolution in Manchuria, in 1911/12 in the war between Turkey and Italy over Tripolitania and in 1913/14 in the revolution in Mexico . When the First World War broke out , he returned to Austria and rejoined the army. He died in September 1914 in Sieniawa, Galicia, where his dragoon regiment was stationed.

As a war correspondent, v. Krieglstein z. B. for the Vossische Zeitung (Berlin), the Daily Rundschau (Berlin), the Hannoversche Anzeiger, the Frankfurter Zeitung, the General-Anzeiger in Elberfeld-Barmen, the Nordbayerische Zeitung (Nuremberg), the Württemberger Zeitung (Stuttgart), Bohemia ( Prague), the Vienna Foreign Gazette and the Meraner Zeitung. In addition to his journalistic work, he also gave lectures on his war experiences, which he illustrated with his own photographs. He processed his participation in the Boxer Rebellion in China in his book The Fights of the German Expeditionary Corps in China, published in 1902 .

writer

The narrative work v. Krieglsteins includes travel stories and short travel novels , which have titles such as Nazmi Bey , Madame Helene , Kyrios Borumis , The Woman of the Circassian , Tuan-fu-cheng (My Servant Karl) , Lady Doctor , The Swamp Charbin and Atsumi Shibato and in several volumes of stories - partly published posthumously. His stories and novels were popular with contemporary audiences. They were also appreciated by fellow writers such as B. by Peter Altenberg , Hanns Heinz Ewers and Kurt Tucholsky . A decade and a half after v. Krieglstein's Death, a new edition of his works From the Land of Damnation and Between White and Yellow was included in the series Romane der Welt published by Thomas Mann and Hermann Georg Scheffauer .

Works (selection)

War reporting:

  • The battles of the German Expeditionary Corps in China and their military lessons . Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1902

Stories, short novels:

Independent publications:

  • From the land of damnation . German publishing house Vita, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1st edition 1909, 2nd edition 1910. New editions: Series Romane der Welt, ed. by Thomas Mann and Hermann Georg Scheffauer, publishing house Th.Knaur Nachf. , Berlin 1927 (with a preface by Hanns Heinz Ewers); Schreitersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin (no year, around 1930)
  • Between white and yellow. New stories from the land of damnation . German publishing house Vita, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1909. New editions: Series Romane der Welt, ed. by Thomas Mann and Hermann Georg Scheffauer, Th.Knaur Nachf. publishing house, Berlin 1927; Schreitersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin (no year, around 1930)
  • Stories from the desert . Georg Müller Publishing House , Munich 1918
  • Atsumi Shibato . Lutz crime and detective novels, Verlag Robert Lutz, Stuttgart, 2nd edition 1922

Publications in collective works:

  • Tuan-fu-cheng . In: Rolf Bongs: The Book of Adventure . Verlag Georg Müller, Munich 1913, pp. 77–170 (with an illustration of the story by Adolf Uzarski )
  • Atsumi Shibato . In: Rolf Bongs: The hunt for people. A collection of the most exciting detective stories . Verlag Georg Müller, Munich 1920, pp. 175–274 (with two illustrations of the story by Max Schwarzer )

literature

  • Birgit Strimitzer: Die Freiherrn Binder von Krieglstein , series of dissertations of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Volume 110, Graz 1998 (especially chapter 9.4: Eugen Freiherr Binder von Krieglstein , pp. 202–205) ISBN 3-7041-9070- 5
  • Georg H. Schlatter Binswanger: Binder-Krieglstein, Eugen Reichsfreiherr von . In: Wilhelm Kosch , Carl Ludwig Lang, Konrad Feilchenfeldt : German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook. KG Saur Verlag, Bern and Munich, 2001. Second volume, p. 648 f.
  • Article Krieglstein, Eugen von . In: Hans Giebisch , Ludwig Pichler, Kurt Vancsa: Small Austrian Literature Lexicon . Hollinek publishing house, Vienna 1948
  • Krieglstein, Eugen Baron von . In: Gerhard Lüdtke: Nekrolog zu Kürschner's literary calendar 1901–1935. Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1936, p. 384
  • Krieglstein, Eugene . In: German Biographical Index . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1998. Volume 4, p. 1936

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Birgit Strimitzer: Die Freiherrn Binder von Krieglstein , Graz 1998, p. 202 fmwNachw.
  2. ↑ See Karl Kraus , Die Fackel No. 165 of July 8, 1904, p. 23.
  3. ↑ Cf. Georg H. Schlatter Binswanger: Binder-Krieglstein, Eugen Reichsfreiherr von . In: Wilhelm Kosch, Carl Ludwig Lang, Konrad Feilchenfeldt: German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook. KG Saur Verlag Bern and Munich, 2001. Second volume, p. 648.
  4. ↑ See Birgit Strimitzer: Die Freiherrn Binder von Krieglstein , Graz 1998, p.203 with further references.
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. the newspaper reports caught as a spy. Adventure of a Correspondent in Crete , Vienna Foreign Gazette No. 105 of April 15, 1897, pp. 13–15; The great autumn maneuvers in China , Frankfurter Zeitung No. 34 of October 1905, p. 1 (under the abbreviation BK) and Luis el Zapo - Luis, the toad. Central American Sittenbilder , Meraner Zeitung, May 8, 1914, pp. 9-11 and Birgit Strimitzer: Die Freiherrn Binder von Krieglstein , Graz 1998, p. 205.
  6. ↑ See e.g. B. the lecture reviews in: Wiener Abendpost from January 7, 1913, Berliner Börsen-Courier from January 9, 1913 and Danziger Latest News from January 22, 1913
  7. ↑ Reprint of excerpts in: Berliner Latest Nachrichten of January 23, 1902, p. 1.
  8. ↑ See Birgit Strimitzer: Die Freiherrn Binder von Krieglstein , Graz 1998, p.205 with further references.
  9. ↑ See Peter Altenberg: Nachfechsung. Berlin 1916, p. 310 f.
  10. ↑ See Hanns Heinz Ewers: Preface to v.Krieglstein's volume of short stories From the Land of Damnation. , Verlag Th. Knaur Nachf., Berlin 1927, p. 7.
  11. ↑ See Kurt Tucholsky: Tilla Durieux in: Gesammelte Werke , Volume 1 (1907-1918), Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1975, p. 175 f. (to Madame Helene from v. Krieglstein's collection of stories Between White and Yellow ).
  12. ↑ Cf. Gert Heine, Paul Schommer: Thomas Mann Chronik . Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 180 (chronicle entry from May 29, 1927).
personal data
SURNAME Krieglstein, Eugen Binder from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krieglstein, Eugen; Binder-Krieglstein, Eugen; Binder-Krieglstein, Eugen von; Binder-Krieglstein, Eugen Baron; Binder von Krieglstein, Eugen Reichsfreiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian war correspondent and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1914
Place of death Sieniawa