Franz Kranewitter

This article deals with the playwright Franz Kranewitter. For the sculptor see Franz Josef Kranewitter .

Franz Kranewitter (around 1930)

Grave of Franz Kranewitter in the Westfriedhof Innsbruck

Franz Kranewitter (born December 18, 1860 in Nassereith ( Tyrol ), † January 4, 1938 there ) was an Austrian playwright .

Life

Franz Kranewitter, son of a farmer and toll collector in Nassereith, went to school with the Franciscans in Hall in Tirol . In 1875 he moved to Innsbruck to study German. During this time he wrote his first poems.

His first drama , Um Haus und Hof , appeared in 1895. From 1905 to 1925 he wrote his major drama cycle The Seven Deadly Sins , a detailed record of deadly speeches and norms of behavior in a topographically and mentally closed village community. Two of his dramas, both written in 1899, were dedicated to the Tyrolean past: Michel Gaißmayr and Andreas Hofer , the author who is connected to his homeland and who was one of the “strikers and pushers” of Young Tyrol at the beginning of the 20th century . Kranewitter demonstrated his comedic talent with plays such as The Devil's Bride .

In the summer of 1937, Kranewitter was attacked by an intestinal disease that resulted in pneumonia in the last days of life. The corpse of the deceased, honorary ring bearer of the city of Innsbruck, was carried to its final resting place on January 7, 1938 in a city grave of honor at the Westfriedhof (field P / 25).

Works

• Lyric frescoes. Poems. 1888
• Kulturkampf. Epos. 1890
• Around the house and yard. Folk piece. 1895
• Michel Gaißmayr. Tragedy. 1899
• Andreas Hofer. Play. 1902
• Wieland the blacksmith. Play. 1904
• The seven deadly sins. Drama cycle. 1905-1925
• The devil's bride. Comedy. 1911
• The love meals. Comedy. 1918
• The maiden prefectess. Novel. 1918
• Around the house and yard. Comedy. 1918
• Brother Ubaldus. Tragedy. 1919
• The dining basket. Comedy. 1919
• Emle. Play. 1922

On-line

• Collected Works. Published by the Adolf Pichler community in Innsbruck. Publishing house “Das Bergland-Buch”, Graz / Vienna / Leipzig / Berlin (among others) 1933. (Online at ALO ).

literature

• Franz Wagerer: Franz Kranewitter. Life and work. Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1947, OBV .
• Mayr:  Kranewitter Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 207 f. (Direct links on p. 207 , p. 208 ).
• Eugen Thurnher:  Kranewitter, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 671-673 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Holzner: Franz Kranewitter (1860–1938). Provincial literature between Kulturkampf and National Socialism. Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 1985, ISBN 3-85218-012-0 . - Full text online at ALO .
• Gero von Wilpert (Ed.): Lexicon of world literature. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-59050-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Kranewitter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website on the estate of Franz Kranewitter at the Brenner Archive Research Institute at the University of Innsbruck
• Franz Kranewitter stage Nassereith
• Entry in the Lexicon of Literature in Tyrol

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} City of Innsbruck, Office for Green Spaces, Section Cemeteries: Honorary Graves of the City of Innsbruck . In: innsbruck.at , May 4, 2011. - text online (PDF) ( Memento of 11 October 2007 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 1, 2011th
2. ↑ The playwright Franz Kranewitter has died. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 26336 M / 1938), January 5, 1938, p. 6, top right. (Online at ANNO ). and
   Franz Kranewitter. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 26339 M / 1938), January 8, 1938, p. 6, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .