Fanny Wibmer-Pedit

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Fanny Wibmer-Pedit
“Beim Bründl” - Fanny Wibmer-Pedit's birthplace in Innsbruck's St.-Nikolaus-Gasse

Fanny Wibmer-Pedit (actually Franziska Wibmer, née Pedit; born February 19, 1890 in St. Nikolaus , Innsbruck , † October 27, 1967 in Lienz , East Tyrol ) was an Austrian writer . Wibmer-Pedit is best known for her historical , homeland and peasant novels .

Life

First years in Tyrol

Gasthof "Heimgarten" around 1910

Fanny Pedit was born on February 19, 1890 in Innsbruck as the eldest of three children of the security guard Franz Paul Pedit (born April 30, 1860, Sistrans ), who tried himself as a writer (three of his plays were performed on the Exl stage ) and Therese Pedit, b. Ganzer, the daughter of the mayor of Matrei i. O. , born. Her birthplace at St.-Nikolaus-Gasse 1, called Beim Bründl , was in the St. Nikolaus district of the same name, an area that is called Koatlackn because of the wastewater that accumulates there in bad weather . Sister Rosa was born on June 20, 1895, and Brother Hermann on April 7, 1900, who later became an art fitter. Fanny attended elementary school for six years (first two years in St. Nikolaus, then one year in the private Ursuline elementary school , the remaining three in Dreiheiligen ), at which her talent as a writer was probably not yet discovered, as she received a sufficient level in German due to poor spelling and fantastic smearings (correct spelling caused her life-long difficulties). After finishing primary school, she began a commercial apprenticeship in the Fichtnerladele (near the Golden Roof ). The family first moved to Dreiheiligen, later, with the inheritance from their mother and a loan from their father, a piece of land was acquired in Mühlau and a house built (move in 1904), called s'Voglhäusl by the locals . After the addition and acquisition of the innkeeper license, Fanny worked in her parents' inn, the Heimgarten on Hohen Weg, directly on the Inn . In 1907 a farm ( Ortnergütl or at Ortner ) was acquired in Oberlienz , and so Fanny moved to East Tyrol, her mother's home, where she initially worked in her parents' farm and there also got to know the world of Tyrolean mountain farmers. After the mother fell seriously ill, the Pedit family moved to Grafenbach in the north of the city of Lienz, where Fanny was an apprentice in a ladies' tailoring shop. She spent her early childhood reading classics such as Schiller , Wieland , Kleist , Shakespeare and Scott , making her first attempts at writing and publishing in newspapers (Fanny's father Franz was committed to the paper when the Lienzer Nachrichten was founded in 1911 and paved the way for her Weg) also come from this time in East Tyrol.

Vienna and the first works

On May 14, 1912 she married the man from Matrei i. Police officer Alfons Wibmer (born January 20, 1882 in Matrei i. O .; † January 30, 1959 in Lienz), son of Albert Wibmer and Monika, born O. Rainer. Alfons had already joined the Viennese police in 1907 , and Fanny followed him to the capital, where they first settled in Währing and the following year in Ottakring . From this marriage there were 6 children who initially received their full attention: Adalbert (* 1913; † 1990), Therese (* 1915; † 1998), Franz (* 1918; † 1919), Hermann (* 1923; † 2004) , Franziska (* 1925; † 1982) and Alfons (* 1932). Under very difficult conditions for a writer - in a small apartment and surrounded by the screaming of children as a housewife and mother - she began her actual literary activity as a late-career writer; her texts were not infrequently written on awake nights. In 1927 Wibmer-Pedit took part in a competition of the German Volkstheater in Vienna with the folk play Das Eigen Heim, at the age of 38 she wrote her first novels, Medardus Siegenwart (a novel from East Tyrol's past ) and Karl Müller's Lostag (on July 15, 1927 in Vienna, which directly affected her husband as a police officer; the novel describes Müller's transformation from socialist to Christian-social ). She received encouragement and support for her first works (not least because of the positive propaganda for the conservative forces in the young republic , which was probably not intended to this extent ) after initially difficult search for a publisher and others. a. by Josef Neumair , the chairman of the Tyrolean Federation in Vienna, as well as by Friedrich Funder, the editor of the Catholic Reichspost . In this daily newspaper articles Wibmer-Pedits and several novels have been printed in serial series since 1928. In the following years she established herself as a Catholic publicist, gave readings, found radio stations and made the acquaintance of fellow writers such as Adolf Innerkofler (priest), Heinrich Suso Waldeck (religion teacher, poet) and Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti . However, as early as the end of the 1920s, negative interpersonal experiences in private circles led to an initial distancing from the official church, but not from Catholic circles. After initial difficulties in finding a publisher, her novels also found regular popularity in the publishing houses in the early 1930s, and Wibmer-Pedit became a guest of well-known literary table societies such as that of the Catholic writer and cultural philosopher Richard Kralik . In 1932 she became president of the Catholic German Writers' Association Winfried and in the early 30s she was also involved in the revival of the medieval mystery play (including the Tyrolean Nativity Play , 1932, performed in numerous performances and radio productions).

In the Erlschütt house through the dictatorships

"Erlschütt" house in Lienz

As early as December 1931, Wibmer-Pedit wrote a self-biography of her homesickness in Vienna and the desire to create a piece of island in the Tyrolean mountains for their children that would help them relax. This wish grew stronger and so the Erlschütt house was built on the Lienzer Sonnenhang, near the Haidenhof, in which her youngest child, Alfons, saw the light of day in 1932, still unfinished. In 1934, after Alfons' senior retired early, the family finally moved from Heumarkt (Wien-Landstrasse, where they were assigned a larger apartment in the new police building in 1931) to the East Tyrolean district capital. During the corporate state, Wibmer-Pedit was a member of the Catholic Women's Association as well as the leader of the women's association of the Fatherland Front in the Lienz district and in the cultural association New Life , which is also part of this environment (Fanny's brother Hermann was in the Home Guard and in this function involved in the suppression of the Nazi coup in East Tyrol and Upper Carinthia, for which he was sentenced to 2 years in prison after the Anschluss and was imprisoned until an act of mercy by the Führer in June 1939. In the last days of the war he was a member of a small, spontaneously founded resistance group) . During this time, she also intensified her occupation with folklore works as well as the publication of two of her most important historical novels, Emerenzia and Die Pfaffin (1934, about the Perloger witch Emerenzia Pichler, who was executed on September 25, 1680, and all of her trial files) are preserved) and A woman wears the crown (1936, about Empress Maria Theresia ). With the latter work, the author also hoped for state recognition in the form of the Austrian State Prize and / or a performance at the Burgtheater , but was disappointed on both points because the conflict between two German states came too close to political reality. Wibmer-Pedit's hopes turned to National Socialism , to which she publicly admitted in April 1938 in the article Error, Knowledge and Confession , but which also testifies to her ignorance of the same and a political naivete. Two years earlier she became a member of the Gayda press office, Eisenach , a German institute that can be said to be very close to National Socialism. In May 1938, at the invitation of the Catholic St. Michaelsbund , she went on lecture tours in the Altreich, a second trip was almost canceled by the Gestapo because a political event was suspected, and a house search was ordered in Erlschütt . On June 1, it was accepted into the Reichsschrifttumskammer , but it was expelled from it two years later on December 5, 1940, due to political unreliability. The President of the Reichsschrifttumskammer accused Wibmer-Pedit of standing on the side of the ruling system in Austria before the Anschluss and of having acted against Hitler and National Socialism in events organized by the Fatherland Front . The exclusion not only impaired her literary work, but also meant financial difficulties for the family. In 1943 the author therefore accepted the offer from the mayor of Lienz, Emil Winkler, to compose a festival to mark the opening of Bruck Castle as a local museum . This commissioned work also led to a positive assessment by the party and on August 26, 1943 to re-entry into the Reichsschrifttumskammer. Therese Pedit died in 1944, on July 27th of the same year her daughter Fanny resigned from the Catholic Church after a decade of inner struggle ... so that I don't lose my faith in God , as she later explained her step, and probably not due to National Socialism.

Search for publisher and late work

Grave of Fanny Wibmer-Pedits

Only one year later, Wibmer-Pedit was branded twice, as the Catholic publishers in which she previously published were no longer open to her, and her works were also viewed from the perspective of their political past. Nevertheless, she managed to publish some works in the late 1940s and 1950s. In the last decade of her life, when she was looked after by her daughter Therese, publications were rare. Nevertheless, she remained active until the end and was still learning Latin when she was over 60 in order to be able to fall back on documents in the original text when researching her historical novels . Fanny Wibmer-Pedit died on the morning of October 27, 1967 of pulmonary edema with a heart attack . She was in the office, even at times of her as Klause referred, in her home Erlschütt laid out and supported various on October 30 under large sympathy of the local population and politics, various associations and representatives of publishing houses to the grave. Two of her novels ( Margarete Maultasch and Der Brandleger , both 1969) were only published posthumously, and in 2008 Die Dolomitenkrone and other sagas from East Tyrol appeared . A considerable part of their correspondence, records and manuscripts is housed in the Brenner archive of the University of Innsbruck and in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum .

Literary work

Wibmer-Pedit was active in a wide variety of literary genres: novels, stories, legends, books for young people, religious amateur plays, folk plays. Her literary work was, like that of most authors, strongly influenced by personal experiences. She mentions her paternal grandmother, Rosina Pedit, known as Veiten-Rosl, who worked as a maid and who did her livelihood and the like. a. by collecting berries, mushrooms, herbs and ant eggs, woven All Souls' wreaths, and made soups for sale. Just as their characteristics and activities have found their way into the works of Wibmer-Pedit, the longing of her father, who first earned his living as a peddler and goatherd and only learned to write in the military, after real estate, must have had a strong influence on the author, and During her time in Vienna, the socially romantic and idealizing view of peasantry intensified. The clearly moralizing narrative style is also a predominant feature of her work. There are three important components in Wibmer-Pedit's works: Faith, Home and People, and these can be found in her novels, which can be roughly divided into two main directions, the historical (including Die Welserin , Margarete Maultasch ), for which she also carried out intensive source studies and archive work , and the Catholic-conservative, sometimes mythical homeland and peasant novels (e.g. homecoming to the Scholle ). An East Tyrolean homeland book has remained unpublished. In her own self-image, Fanny Wibmer-Pedit was a folk writer, who placed her main focus on ensuring that her messages could find acceptance in the simple rural population . About herself and her literary work, she said: My striving is to be able to stand before my work, I do not deny any of my books, however each may reflect the change of time. The way to ultimate and deepest knowledge is long; may me, to change him, never forsake the strength of the heart!

Honors

Fanny Wibmer-Pedit-Strasse in Lienz

Works

Books

  • The wedding lady. Novel . Regensburg: Habbel 1930
  • The burning bush. Novel . Regensburg: Habbel 1930
  • Karl Müller's Lost Day. Viennese novel . Vienna: Commission publishing house Mayer and Comp. [1930]
  • Medardus victorious. A novel from East Tyrol's past . Regensburg: Habbel 1931
  • Over the mountain. Novel . Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: Tyrolia 1932
  • The three crystals. Farmer's legend from East Tyrol . Munich: Josef Müller 1932
  • The Nussbaumer . Munich: Josef Müller 1932
  • The Marienglöckl from Leisach. A bell founder story from East Tyrol . Vienna: Auer [1932]
  • The red of sin. Novel . Regensburg: Habbel 1932
  • The four purifier boys . Salzburg: Pustet 1933 (Colorful World 3)
  • The laughing heartache and other Tyrolean stories . Munich: Josef Müller 1933
  • Margret Leitner. Narration . Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: Tyrolia 1934
  • Emerenzia. Roman [alt .: The Pfaffin ]. Salzburg: Blow 1934
  • Knight Florian Waldauf . Salzburg, Leipzig: Blow 1935
  • St. Notburg. The maid of God . Salzburg, Leipzig: Blow 1935
  • In the quiet evening hours. Youth stories . Paderborn: Schöninghaus 1935
  • A heart door has slammed. Stories and characters from Tyrol . Paderborn: Schöninghaus 1935
  • Heinrich of Bozen. Life and death of a poor German . Salzburg, Leipzig: Blow 1936
  • The magnificence of our time . Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: Tyrolia 1937
  • Woman and ethnicity. [Together with] Marianne Dinkhauser . Innsbruck: Marianische Verein bookstore and book printer 1937 (Volk und Heimat 8)
  • A woman wears the crown. The life novel of the Empress Maria Theresa . Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: Tyrolia 1937
  • The golden plow . Munich: Josef Müller 1938
  • Return to the plaice. Novel of two clans . Innsbruck, Vienna: Tyrolia 1938
  • Liebfrauenwunder . Munich: Josef Müller 1939
  • The Wieshofer. His way into the new time . Innsbruck: Deutscher Alpenverlag [Tyrolia] 1939
  • What will become of Lisl Sturm? Dülmen in Westphalia: Laumann 1940
  • The first Landsknecht. Life Roman Maximilian I . Innsbruck: Deutscher Alpenverlag [Tyrolia] 1940
  • The catfish woman. Novel . Innsbruck: Deutscher Alpenverlag [Tyrolia] 1940
  • The Eiban daughter. Novel . Innsbruck: Deutscher Alpenverlag [Tyrolia] [1941]
  • The wreath. A Tyrolean legend . Heidelberg: guys 1946
  • Thunderstorm over Aldein. Novel . Innsbruck, Vienna: Tyrolia [1948]
  • On Wolfsegg. Novel . Klagenfurt: Eduard Kaiser 1949 (Farmer Trilogy 2)
  • The galitzesmith. Narration . Heidelberg: guys 1949
  • The Dirnburg. Novel . Klagenfurt: Eduard Kaiser 1949 (Farmer Trilogy 1)
  • The Hochwalder. Novel . Klagenfurt: Eduard Kaiser 1950 (Farmer Trilogy 3)
  • The Perchtenstein. Novel . Klagenfurt: Eduard Kaiser [1951]
  • Count and Duke. Novel about Meinhard II of Tyrol . Graz, Vienna, Cologne: Styria 1954
  • The holy mountain. Novel . Klagenfurt: Eduard Kaiser [1958]
  • Margarete Maultasch. Historical novel . Klagenfurt: Eduard Kaiser [1969]
  • The incendiary. Novel . Regensburg: Habbel 1969
  • The Dolomite Crown and other legends from East Tyrol . With an afterword by Anton Unterkircher; Ill .: Franziska Wibmer-Mikl. Innsbruck: Edition Löwenzahn 2008

Contributions

Various contributions (articles, sequel stories, plays, and much more) in:

  • Andreas Hofer's yearbook
  • The shell. A South Tyrolean reading book . Ed. Working group of South Tyrolean secondary school teachers, Hermann Vigl. Paderborn: Schöninghaus 1966.
  • Dolomites
  • Women poetry of the time . Edited by Maria Domanig. Vol. 2. Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich : Tyrolia 1935.
  • Innsbruck newspaper
  • Young Austria
  • Catholic Sunday paper for the diocese of Augsburg
  • Kärntner Volkszeitung 1948, 1950 and 1954.
  • State of Tyrol
  • Lienz book. Contributions to local history of Lienz and the surrounding area , 1952 ( Schlern-Schriften , 98).
  • Lienz news
  • Marianne Dinkhauser and Fanny Wibmer Pedit: Woman and Volkstum . Innsbruck: Marianische Vereinbuchhandlung und Buchdruckerei 1937 (Volk und Heimat 8).
  • Merian
  • Latest newspaper
  • East Tyrolean messenger
  • East Tyrolean homeland sheets
  • Reichspost
  • Creative Tyrol 1. Contemporary poetry I - contemporary currents. Ed. And Vorw. Hermann Holzmann. Innsbruck: Wagner 1953.
  • Creative Tyrol 2nd Tyrolean folk teller . Edited by Hermann Holzmann, Anton Kecht, Hermann J. Spiehs. (with short biography; ibid. p. 373). Innsbruck: Wagner 1959.
  • St. Kassian Calendar
  • South Tyrol in words and pictures
  • South Tyrolean yearbook
  • Tyrolean indicator
  • Tyrolean farmers calendar
  • Tyrolean farmers newspaper
  • Word in the mountains

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Printed

  • Anton Unterkircher: Between all stools. Fanny Wibmer-Pedit . In: Johann Holzner, Sandra Unterweger (Ed.): Shadow fights. Literature in East Tyrol . Innsbruck 2006, pp. 67-76.
  • Edda Margreiter-Wilscher: Fanny Wibmer-Pedit. Attempt a monograph . Dissertation University of Innsbruck 1983.
  • Edda Wilscher: The historical stories of Fanny Wibmer-Pedit . Ha. University of Innsbruck 1976.
  • Fanny Wibmer-Pedit: autobiography (Vienna 1931) . In: Johann Holzner, Sandra Unterweger (Ed.): Shadow fights. Literature in East Tyrol . Innsbruck 2006, pp. 76-85.
  • Helga Klengel-Schullin: Fanny Wibmer-Pedit. About the nature of their historical novels . In: Osttiroler Heimatblätter. Local side dish of the "Osttiroler Bote". February 25, 1965, Volume 33 No. 2, pp. 1-2.
  • Martin Kofler: East Tyrol in the Third Reich 1938–1945 . Innsbruck 1996.
  • Martin Kofler: East Tyrol. From the First World War to the present . Innsbruck 2005.
  • Max Stock: In memoriam Fanny Wibmer-Pedit died on October 27, 1967 . In: Osttiroler Heimatblätter. Local side dish of the "Osttiroler Bote". February 29, 1968, Volume 36 No. 2, pp. 1-3.
  • Meinrad Pizzinini, Michael Forcher: Lienz. The big city book . Lienz 1982.
  • Fanny Wibmer-Pedit estate, privately owned by the family.
  • She lives on in her books. Fanny Wibmer-Pedit taken to the grave . In: Osttiroler Bote. dated November 9, 1967, Volume 22, No. 45, p. 5.
  • Paul Unterweger: Commemorative speech at the grave of Wibmer-Pedit . In: Osttiroler Bote. November 2, 1967, Volume 22 No. 44, pp. 1-2.
  • Wilhelm Eppacher: The poet Fanny Wibmer-Pedit 60 years old . In: Official Gazette of the City of Innsbruck. March 1950, Volume 13, No. 3, pp. 10-11.

On-line

Web links

Commons : Fanny Wibmer-Pedit  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Weis: '' Fanny Wibmer-Pedit '', unpublished short biography, 2010, complete citation of the original text with the permission of the author.
  2. ^ Max Stock: In Memoriam Fanny Wibmer-Pedit died on October 27, 1967. In: Osttiroler Heimatblätter. Local supplement to the "Osttiroler Bote" , February 29, 1968, Volume 36 No. 2, p. 1.
  3. ^ Fanny Wibmer-Pedit: Self-biography (Vienna 1931). In: Johann Holzner, Sandra Unterweger (Ed.): Shadow fights. Literature in East Tyrol. Innsbruck 2006, p. 79. Wibmer-Pedit's statement is used here, other sources write from 1906.
  4. ↑ Paul Unterweger: Commemorative speech at the grave of Wibmer-Pedit. In: Osttiroler Bote. November 2, 1967, Volume 22 No. 44, p. 1.
  5. ↑ Short biography at http://www.inlibris.at/content/deutsch/best/search.php?term=wibmer-pedit&suchen=Suchen , accessed on December 27, 2010.
  6. ^ Fanny Wibmer-Pedit: Self-biography (Vienna 1931). In: Johann Holzner, Sandra Unterweger (Ed.): Shadow fights. Literature in East Tyrol. Innsbruck 2006, p. 84.
  7. ↑ Martin Kofler: East Tyrol in the Third Reich 1938–1945. Innsbruck 1996, pp. 103f, 234.
  8. ^ Anton Unterkircher: Between all chairs. Fanny Wibmer-Pedit . In: Johann Holzner, Sandra Unterweger (Ed.): Shadow fights. Literature in East Tyrol. Innsbruck 2006, p. 69.
  9. ^ Letter from Fanny Wibmer-Pedit to dean Alois Budamaier from January 15, 1962. In: Edda Margreiter-Wilscher: Fanny Wibmer-Pedit. Attempt a monograph. Diss. University of Innsbruck 1983, p. 68.
  10. ^ Anton Unterkircher: Between all chairs. Fanny Wibmer-Pedit . In: Johann Holzner, Sandra Unterweger (Ed.): Shadow fights. Literature in East Tyrol. Innsbruck 2006, p. 67.
  11. ↑ Edda Margreiter-Wilscher: Fanny Wibmer-Pedit. Attempt a monograph. Diss. University of Innsbruck 1983, p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Wibmer-Pedit, Fanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wibmer, Franziska (real name); Pedit, Franziska (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Nicholas , Innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1967
Place of death Lienz , East Tyrol