Franz Karl Franchy

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Franz Karl Franchy (born September 21, 1896 in Bistritz - Bistrița , Transylvania , Romania , † February 19, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Franchy attended high school in Klausenburg - Cluj and after graduating from high school, studied German and Latin in Klausenburg and later in Debrecen ( Hungary ). In the First World War he came to the Polish front as a reserve officer. After the war he came to Vienna in 1918, where he became an Austrian citizen in 1922 and in the same year accepted a position as a secondary school teacher for German and history in Eisenstadt . In 1928, however, he entered the service of the Burgenland provincial government. From 1931 he worked in Vienna as a freelance writer.

In 1936 he drew attention to himself with the play "The Young Wolf" performed in the Raimundtheater , and in 1937 the Burgtheater played its successful play "Summa cum laude". He had his greatest success with the play "Vroni Mareiter", there were 1,500 performances on more than 50 Austrian and German stages and a film adaptation.

Franchy became less well known as a novelist. His novel "Spießer und Spielmann" showed his storytelling skills for the first time. His most literary novel is probably “Abel Beats Cain” (1951). Franchy also wrote psychologically substantiated social novels, including "Ankläger Mitmann" (1952), for which he received the Kremayr & Scheriau prize in a literary competition; as well as "Maurus and his tower" (1961). The novel “The Many Days of Marriage” (1955) was also on the bestseller lists. Franchy's entire literary work is part of representative Austrian literature. He always tried to make ethos visible in his works.

Honors

  • 1955 Award of the Federal Ministry for Education for the play "Between the Tracks"
  • 1955 Austrian State Prize for Drama
  • 1966 Ginzkey ring

Works

Dramas

  • Nero (1922)
  • Credo (1923/24)
  • The black misery
  • Summa cum laude (1937)

Spectacles

  • Vroni Mareiter (1938)
  • Secure existence (1943)
  • Anna Groth (1955)
  • Between the Tracks (1959)

Novels

  • The mafta. Narrative (1940)
  • Maurus and his tower (1941)
  • Philistine and minstrel (1947)
  • Abel Beats Cain (1951)
  • Prosecutor Mitmann (1952)
  • Appointed and outcast (1951)
  • The Many Days of Marriage (1955)
  • The Brandgasse (1963)

Secondary literature

  • Hans Giebisch / Gustav Gugitz. Bio-bibliographical literary dictionary of Austria from the beginning to the present . Vienna: Hollinek, 1963.
  • Walter Kleindel. The great book of the Austrians. 4500 person representations in words and pictures, names, dates, facts . With the collaboration of Hans Veigl . Vienna: Kremayr & Scheriau, 1987.
  • Austrian biographical lexicon 1815–1950 . Edited by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna: Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences / Vienna / Graz: Böhlau, 1954 – running.
  • Robert Teichl. Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries . Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckere, i 1951.
  • Lively city. Almanac . Volume 10. Vienna: Office for Culture, Public Education and School Administration of the City of Vienna, 1963.
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.). Almanac . Volume 113. Vienna: Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1963.
  • Adalbert Schmidt. Austrian poetry and poet in the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 2. Salzburg: Bergland-Buch 1964, p. 382.
  • Town hall correspondence . Vienna: Press and Information Service, September 20, 1971

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personal data
SURNAME Franchy, Franz Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bistrița , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1972
Place of death Vienna