Franc Kattnig
Franc (actually: Franz) Kattnig, vulgo Katnigovi vača, (born January 7, 1945 ) is an Austrian publisher, author and journalist about the Slovenian language and culture in Carinthia (cf. Carinthian Slovenes ).
Life
Kattnig attended from 1951 to 1954 the primary school Rosegg , from 1954 to 1956, the high school St. Jakob and entered 1957 in the newly founded Slovenian school in Klagenfurt one in which he in 1963 for the first graduation year belonged. After graduating from high school, he began studying mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in 1963 , where he graduated in 1969 with a degree in engineering. He then worked as an assistant at the Technical University and as a professor at the Technical College until the Council of Carinthian Slovenes commissioned him to set up the Slovenian Information Center (SIC) in 1978 .
In 1979 he awakened the “ Peter Markovič ” cultural association in Rosegg, of which he has been chairman since then, to new life; the association enriches cultural life in the Upper Rosental through its activities . As early as the spring of 1985 he asked for a local museum in the old Rosegger parish hall, in which finds or copies of them from the state museum in Klagenfurt from the grave field in Frög could be exhibited. In 1981 Kattnig moved to Hermagoras Verlag , for whose program he was jointly responsible until his retirement. Until the end of Yugoslavia he had to struggle with the import ban on Slovene-language books from foreign publishers who were not loyal to the regime. He published art books by Cornelius Kolig ("Furniture for Paradise"), on Valentin Oman , Kiki Kogelnik and Gustav Januš , whose poems he published in a four-language edition. From Slovenian literature, works by Žarko Petan , Alojz Rebula , Kajetan Kovič and Drago Jančar have been translated, and the memoirs of the first Slovenian head of government Lojze Peterle have been published. German-speaking authors were published in the original language. The Slovenian literature in Carinthia was treated in two anthologies by Johann Strutz; He tried to remedy the lack of a modern Slovenian literary history by translating an extensive Serbo-Croatian handbook by Marija Mitrović and editing and intensively supplementing it by Katja Sturm-Schnabl ; the book was published in 2001. For many years, Kattnig was editor of the magazines “Družina in dom” (family and home) and “Celovški Zvon” (Klagenfurt bell). Franc Kattnig retired in 2009 as head of Hermagoras Verlag (Mohorjeva založba) in Klagenfurt; he is the co-author of several books. Today he works as a freelance author for the Carinthian Slovenian weekly newspaper "Novice", which appears in Klagenfurt / Celovec, for which he mainly writes as a necrologist.
Kattnig lives with his mate Mari in Untergoritschach (Spodnje Goriče) near Rosegg (Rožek).
Awards
1999 Schwentner Prize of the Republic of Slovenia (Schwentnerjeva nagrada)
Web links
- Literature by and about Franc Kattnig in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.hermagoras.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kattnig, Franc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kattnig, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1945 |