Felix Braun

Anton Josef Trčka : Felix Braun (1926)

Felix Braun (born November 4, 1885 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 29, 1973 in Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian writer, poet and playwright.

Life

Felix Braun was born in Vienna as the son of Karoline Braun (née Kohn, Vienna, August 11, 1856) and the accountant and later chairman of the board of the Anker bread factory Eduard Braun (August 19, 1857 in Vienna - February 22, 1935 there) and was registered in the Jewish birth books. The mother died on March 25, 1888 giving birth to his sister Käthe (she also became a writer under the married name Braun-Prager). The father married Laura Kohn (born March 27, 1861), the sister of the late wife, on May 5, 1891. The marriage resulted in Robert Braun in 1896 .

Felix Braun studied art history , philosophy , and archeology in Vienna from 1904 and received his doctorate in 1908.

From 1905 he published his first literary works in the Neue Freie Presse , the Österreichische Rundschau , the Neue Rundschau and in 1910 became the features editor of the Berliner Nationalzeitung .

In 1912 he married Hedwig Freund, from whom he divorced in 1915. In 1917 Braun resigned from the Jewish community. As an editor at the Georg Müller publishing house in Munich , he got to know important writers, including Hans Carossa , Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke . From 1928 to 1938 Braun was a private lecturer in German literature in Palermo and Padua . In 1935 he was baptized as a Catholic. In 1939 he emigrated to Great Britain , where he stayed until 1951 and taught literature and art history as a lecturer. After returning to Austria, Felix Braun worked as a lecturer at the Reinhardt Seminar and the Academy for Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 1954 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Felix Braun's grave

Felix Braun received a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 C, number 36) . In 1977 the Felix-Braun-Gasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

Services

Felix Braun was Hugo von Hofmannsthal's secretary and friends with him. At the beginning of the 20th century he was one of Vienna's young poets and was known to numerous writers such as Stefan Zweig , Anton Wildgans and Max Brod . He was a neo-romantic who wrote refined, cultivated works in all genres of poetry. The themes of his works revolve around religion , antiquity and his home country Austria.

Felix Braun was the editor of an anthology of German poetry, The Thousand Year Rose Bush , which has appeared in numerous editions since 1937 and was one of the most popular collections of its kind. He also translated Thomas von Kempen and Johannes von Kreuz .

As a result of widespread relationships and contacts (until 1970), Braun was in possession of a bundle of over 1200 important autographs , which he bequeathed to the Vienna City Library willingly.

Awards and honors

• 1947 Literature Prize of the City of Vienna
• 1951 Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature
• 1955 Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna
• 1955 Medal of the Federal Ministry of Education
• 1965 Grillparzer Prize
• 1966 Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art
• In 1977 Felix-Braun-Gasse in Vienna-Döbling was named after him.

Works

• Adalbert Stifter (essay) in: ders .: Studies , first volume. Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1900, pp. 5–54 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
• Poems. Haupt & Hammon-Verlag, Leipzig 1909 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
• Novels and legends. 1910
• The shadow of death. Novel 1910
• Till Eulenspiegel's empire. A comedy in four acts. Erich Reiss Verlag, Berlin 1911 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
• New life. Poems 1912
• Transfigurations. Selected essays. Verlag des Volksbildungshauses Wiener Urania, Vienna 1917 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
• Tantalos. Tragedy. Five apparitions. Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1917 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
• The dreams in Vineta. Legends 1919
• Hyacinth and Ismene. A dramatic poem in five acts. Musarion Verlag, Munich 1919 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
• Berenike's hair. Poems 1919
• Attila. Legend 1920
• Actaion. Tragedy 1921
• The deeds of Heracles. Novel 1921
• Miracle hours. Stories 1923
• The invisible guest. Novel 1924, revised 1928
• The sleet arc. 1925
• The inner life. Poems 1926
• German ghosts. Essays 1925
• The forgotten mother. Stories 1925
• Esther. Acting 1926
• The son of heaven. Mystery 1926
• Agnes Altkirchner. Novel 1927, revised 1965
• Two stories from children. 1928
• The healing of children. Stories 1929
• Magic lantern. Stories and legends 1932
• An Indian fairy tale game. 1935
• Selected poems. 1936
• Emperor Karl V .. tragedy 1936
• The sting in the soul. Novel 1948
• The Light of the World. Autobiography 1949, revised in 1962
• The daughter of Jairus. Drama 1950
• Letters to the afterlife. Stories 1952
• Aeschylus. Dialogues 1953
• Viola d'Amore. selected poems from the years 1903–1953, 1953
• The musical country. Essays 1952, revised 1970
• The ice flower. Essays 1955
• Rudolf the founder. Drama 1955
• Joseph and Mary. Drama 1956
• Irina and the Tsar. Drama 1956
• Orpheus. Tragedy 1956
• The past remains unrelenting. Selection 1957
• Conversation about Stifter's portfolio of my great-grandfather. 1958
• The love heaven. 1959
• Palermo and Monreale. 1960
• Imaginary conversations. 1960
• Talk to Max Mell. 1960
• Time companions, encounters. 1963
• The four winds. Christmas story, 1964
• Beautiful in southern Italy - Palermo. Essays 1965
• Calls of the spirit. Essays 1965
• Call to the board. Mystery 1965
• The secular monastery. Stories 1965
• The carnation bed. Poems 1914–1965 1965
• Early and late dramas 1909–1967. 1971

As editor

• Beethoven in conversation. Insel Verlag, Austrian Library 9 (1915), Insel-Bücherei 346/2 (1952); Bergland, Vienna, 1971
• Schubert in a circle of friends. A picture of life. Insel Verlag, ÖB 26 (1917), IB 168/2 (1925)
• Audiences with Emperor Joseph. Insel Verlag, ÖB 5 (1915)
• Novalis, fragments. Selection by Felix Braun, IB 257 (1919)
• Jean Jacques Rousseau: Julie or The New Heloise. Kiepenheuer, Potsdam 1920 & dsb., Leipzig 1980; Weltbild Verlag again, Augsburg 2005
• Bettina von Arnim. The love diary, Rikola, 1921
• Adalbert Stifter's letters. Insel Verlag, ÖB 22 (1917), IB 207
• Beethoven intimo. Cappelli, Bologna, 1927
• The millennial rose bush. Herbert Reichner, Vienna, 1937 (published anonymously and without Jewish authors)
• The millennial rose bush. new version, 1949, 1953, 1958, 1973 (last version) Zsolnay, Vienna
• The millennial rose bush. Paperback, Heyne, Munich, first edition 1977 Ex Libris
• The millennial rose bush. (Co-editor Tatjana Popovic), paperback, Diana / Heyne, 2002
• The Lyra of Orpheus. Lyrik der Völker, Zsolnay, 1952 and Heyne, 1978
• You and me. Strange Love Stories, Amandus, 1953
• The book of mothers. together with Käthe Braun-Prager, Zsolnay, 1955
• Rest in the distance. Prose by Käthe Braun-Prager, Austria. Publishing company 1972

Translations

• Thomas von Kempen: The Imitation of Christ 1935 and 1949
• Thomas von Kempen: The Little Rose Garden Spiritual Songs, Styria, 1937
• Brother Lorenz: In the face of God. Record Walter, Olten 1951
• John of the Cross : The dark night of the soul . Otto Müller, 1952
• Favors for guests , repairs, donors' library, 1972

literature

• Clemens de Baillou: Felix Braun - poet, playwright and mystic of our time. In: Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association Vol. 6, № 3 (Fall 1967), pp. 18–30, digitized at jstor .
• Klaus Peter Dencker: Literary Art Nouveau in Drama. Studies on Felix Braun. Schendl, Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-85268-028-X .
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Braun Felix. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 446 ( digitized version ).
• Brown, Felix. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 418-435.

Web links

• Literature by and about Felix Braun in the catalog of the German National Library
• Felix Braun in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
• Holdings in the catalog of the Austrian National Library Vienna
• Digitized works by Felix Braun in the Internet Archive
• Felix Braun reads from his poems
• Felix Braun in the original sound in the online archive of the Austrian media library
• Felix Braun's grave
• Estate administration of Felix Braun
• Entry about Felix Braun ( memento from June 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Literature in Context , a multilingual project of the University of Vienna (in German , archived from the original ).
• Entry about Felix Braun in the Austria-Forum  (biography)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, Matriken der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde, 1784-1911," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GB2H-B2B?cc=2028320&wc = 4692-D6H% 3A344266801% 2C344266802% 2C344443701: 20 May 2014), Vienna (all districts)> birth books> birth register K 1885-1886> image 117 of 299; Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna, Austria.
2. ↑ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1935-02-24, page 30. Accessed June 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ The writer and playwright Dr. Felix Braun (...) In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . January 3, 1971, p. 4, column 4 middle.
4. ↑ Braun provided "a summary ... based on a (revised) contemporary translation." With significantly fewer pages (382 pages) than in the original (approx. 590 pages are common in German)