Ferdinand Sauter

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Karl Willibald Ferdinand Johann Sauter (born May 6, 1804 in Werfen , Duchy of Salzburg , † October 30, 1854 in Hernals , Vienna ) was an Austrian poet .

Life

Ferdinand Sauter and his brother Anton Sauter were born as sons of a council of the prince-archbishop. He received a humanistic education, began as an apprentice trader and, after completing his apprenticeship, joined a businessman in Wels . In 1825 he came to Vienna , where he took up a post in a paper shop. He lost this post and subsequently led a miserable existence.

Sauter stayed mainly in the western suburbs of Vienna and was a regular guest in the “Blue Bottle” in Neulerchenfeld . With his political, folk song-like poems, mostly carried by melancholy, he made a name for himself as a poet bohemian of the Viennese Vormärz . He belonged to the circle around Nikolaus Lenau and Adalbert Stifter . Due to private misfortune, he sank more and more into bitterness. In 1839 he broke his foot and has been limping ever since. Through the mediation of his friends, Sauter received an office post at the “Niederösterreichische Assekuranz-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft”. Sauter had found his apartment in Hernals, Hauptstrasse 63. In the revolutionary year of 1848, Sauter also wrote political poems such as Secret Police and supported the rebels in Vienna.

On October 30, 1854, he died in Hernals as the first victim of the cholera that had broken out in Vienna and the suburbs. His friends put a tombstone for him, the inscription of which - written by himself - has become as well known as his "Gasselied" with the refrain "On the streets, on the streets". He achieved extraordinary fame as a folk poet for the common people in the Vienna suburbs of Hernals and Neulerchenfeld. According to Josef Buchowiecki, the winged words "Alleweil nobel Schani", "Heaven full of violins", "Selling my Gwand i am in heaven" go back to Sauter's sayings.

The Sautergasse in Ottakring and Hernals is named after him.

He rests in an honorary grave in the Hernalser Friedhof (group B, row F, number 23) in Vienna.

Ferdinand Sauter's grave

Grave inscription, written by Sauter himself

Enjoyed a lot, suffered a lot,
And happiness was in the middle;
Much felt nothing acquired
Lived happily and easily died.
Do not ask for the number of years
The stretcher is not a calendar.
And the man in the shroud
That leaves a closed book.
So wanderers move on
Because decay is not cheerful.

Sauter about himself

Sauter always lives merrily,
His mind is true and louder,
He builds a thousand fantasies
And he doesn't trust himself
Everything he has he beats up
Like an ostrich he digests
When he often eats smoked meat with cabbage,
Beautiful girl likes to look at
Like a cat then he meows
Unfortunately he is already graying
More and more - he messes up.

Works

Sauter wrote poetry as well as a drama, in the last years of his life he wrote off the cuff.

Works in excerpt

Works about Sauter

  • Alfred Fürst: Sun children in the rain corner. A Sauter novel, pre-publisher, 1925.
  • Rudolf Holzer: Heaven full of violins. An Austrian drama. Wallishausser Buchhandlung (Karl Stary), 1946; Premiere: October 23, 1948 in the Burgtheater under the direction of Ulrich Bettan . The piece was decisive for the award of the Folk Art Prize to Rudolf Holzer .

expenditure

literature

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Sauter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salzburg, rk. Diocese (ed.): Baptismal book death book . Parish Werfen 1804, p. 396 ( online [accessed October 29, 2019] January 1, 1737 to December 31, 1806, call number TFBSTBIII II).
  2. ↑ rk. Archdiocese, Eastern Lower Austria and Vienna (Ed.): Death book . Parish Hernals 1854, p. 138 ( online [accessed October 29, 2019] January 1, 1852 to December 31, 1855).
  3. ^ Josef Buchowiecki: Ferdinand Sauter. Kerry, 1972, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Wiener Stadtbibliothek ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtbibliothek.wien.at
  5. ↑ Austrian Research Institute for Economy and Politics (Ed.): Reports and information. Volumes 126–150, 1948, p. Unknown ("[...] modern folk piece by Rudolf Holzer" The sky full of violins "(Burgtheater), which focuses on the poet Ferdinand Sauter.")
  6. ↑ Wallishausser'sche Buchhandlung, owner Karl Stary  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wallishauser.at  
  7. ↑ Director of the Burgtheater (ed.): 175 years of the Burgtheater. 1776-1951, continued until summer 1954. Working group Federal Ministry for Education - Federal Theater Administration - Directorate of the Burgtheater, 1955, p. 294.
  8. ↑ Word in Time. Volume 4, Stiasny, 1958, p. 61 (accidentally with “Franz Sauter piece”).
personal data
SURNAME Sauter, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauter, Karl Willibald Ferdinand Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Werfen , State of Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1854
Place of death Hernals , Lower Austria