Felix Grafe
Felix Grafe (born July 9, 1888 in Humpolec , Austria-Hungary ; died December 18, 1942 in Vienna ; actually Felix Löwy ) was an Austrian poet and translator .
Life
Felix Grafe was actually called Felix Löwy and came from the Bohemian Humpolec. His older brother was the biochemist Viktor Grafe . He studied art history and lived in Munich , where he belonged to the literary circle around Frank Wedekind and Heinrich Mann .
Grafe was an expressionist. His first poems appeared in the magazine Die Fackel by Karl Kraus in 1908 . In addition to his own poems, Grafe created translations and revisions from English and French by William Shakespeare , Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire . Grafe founded the magazine Anbruch .
After the First World War, Grafe, like his brother, lived in Vienna. Here, in 1941, an anti-fascist poem that he had written for the illegal communist magazine Hammer und Sichel became his undoing . He was arrested in July and finally executed on December 18, 1942 in the Regional Court of Vienna at 11 Landesgerichtsstrasse for decomposing his military strength and preparing for high treason . His grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery .
The Felix-Count alley in Vienna- favorites was named after him 1968th
Works
- Idris . Hyperion-Verlag, Munich 1910.
- Ruit Hora. New poems . H. v. Weber, Munich 1916.
- Seals. Historical-critical edition . Bergland Verlag, Vienna 1961.
- Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Gaol . Adaptation by Felix Grafe. Hyperionverlag, Berlin 1917.
- Francis Jammes: Almaide or the Novel of a Young Girl's Passion . Hegner, Hellerau 1919.
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993,
- Josef Strelka: Count, Felix. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 727 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Count Felix. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 45.
- Felix Grafe , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 159–162
Web links
- Literature by and about Felix Grafe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Felix Grafe. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- Poem: "Take the hammer, comrades" by Felix Grafe (1941)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Count, Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lowy, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Humpolec |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1942 |
| Place of death | Vienna |