Franz Michael Felder (writer)

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Franz Michael Felder (portrait of Wilhelm Hecht )

Franz Michael Felder (born May 13, 1839 in Schoppernau , Vorarlberg , † April 26, 1869 there ) was an Austrian writer, social reformer and farmer.

Life

Franz Michael Felder grew up in the simplest of mountain farming conditions, suffered several strokes of fate (including the loss of an eye due to a medical malpractice) and, considering his short life, left behind a rich work. With his socially critical novels and stories , based on the model of Jeremias Gotthelf , he devoted himself to village history , but also represents poetic realism . The ( ultramontane ) clergy were very hostile to him.

With his brother-in-law Kaspar Moosbrugger (1830-1917) he founded the early socialist " Vorarlberg'sche Party of Equal Rights " (not of the sexes, but of the social classes) in 1866 . As a farmer, he worked tirelessly to improve working conditions in agriculture and founded a cheese trading association to break the notorious cheese counts' trading monopoly and a livestock insurance industry.

On February 4, 1861, Felder married his long-time acquaintance Anna Katherina Moosbrugger, known as Nanni. 7 years later, in 1868, his wife died unexpectedly after a brief illness and left him with the five children Jakob, Kaspar, Hermann, Martin and Katherina. 7 months later, Franz Michael Felder also died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29 in the house where he was born in Schoppernau . The estate, fragments and collections of Franz Michael Felders are stored in the Franz Michael Felder archive of the Vorarlberg State Library.

Works

  • Nümmamüller and the Black Oca pale. Stettner, Lindau 1863.
  • Eccentrics. Hirzel, Leipzig 1867.
  • Rich and poor. Hirzel, Leipzig 1868.
  • Out of my life. 1869 (published 1904).

Revisions

  • Out of my life. With an afterword by Walter Methlagl. Libelle, Lengwil 2004 [new edition 2019].
  • Rich and poor. A story from the Bregenzerwalde . With an afterword by Karl Wagner, ed. by Ulrike Längle u. Jürgen Thaler. Libelle, Lengwil 2007.
  • Nümmamüller and the Black Oca pale. A picture of life from the Bregenzerwald, ed. by Ulrike Längle u. Jürgen Thaler. With an afterword by Hermann Kinder. Libelle, Lengwil 2013.

  • Birthplace of Franz Michael Felder in Schoppernau

  • Memorial plaque on the birthplace

  • Memorial plaque to Franz Michael Felder in Hopfreben in Schoppernau

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : fields, Franz Michael . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 376 ( digitized version ).
  • Hermann Sander: The life of Franz Michael Felders. 1876.
  • Fields Franz Michael. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 295.
  • Adalbert Welte:  fields, Franz Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 67 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Walter Methlagl : Franz Michael Felder and Kaspar Moosbrugger in the struggle of the political parties in Vorarlberg: 1864–1868 . Fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1978, ISBN 3-900438-10-2 .
  • Walter Methlagl : The farmer's dream. Franz Michael Felder . Fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1984, ISBN 3-900438-10-2 .
  • Ruthilde Frischenschlager: Franz Michael Felder (1839–1869). Education path and personality. On the emergence of literary realism in Austria . (= Literature from Bavaria and Austria. 3). Ludwig, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7787-2113-5 .
  • Ernst Wirthensohn, Arnulf Benzer, Walter Lingenhöle (Red.): FM Felder, Complete Works - an edition in 25 years (1970–1995) . (= Supplement of the Franz-Michael-Felder-Verein. 9). Bregenz 1996.
  • Michaela Neumann: Franz Michael Felder as a people's educator. An analysis of the writings of the peasant poet from an educational point of view . (= European university publications; series 11: Pedagogy. 838). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-631-38240-5 .
  • Franz Michael Felder (1839-1869). Catalog for the exhibition in the Felder Museum Schoppernau. Edited by the Felder Museum Schoppernau and the Franz Michael Felder Archive. Edited by Jürgen Thaler. Libelle, Lengwil 2004.
  • Elmar Bereuter : Felders dream - the hardly believable story of a mountain farmer's boy . Langen-Müller, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7844-3102-4 (Felder's biography in novel form)
  • Ulrike Längle, Jürgen Thaler (eds.): Franz Michael Felder (1839–1869). Aspects of the literary work . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2011.
  • I, fields. Poet and rebel. Exhibition catalog vorarlberg museum. Lengwil 2014, ISBN 978-3-905707-57-1 .
  • Rudolf Hildebrand : A farmer as a poet . In: The Gazebo . Issue 15, 1867, pp. 234–236, 238 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Oberkofler: Beginnings - the Vorarlberg workers' movement until 1890 - from workers' education association to workers' party. In: Kurt Greußing: In principle hope - workers' movement in Vorarlberg 1870-1946 . Fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1984, ISBN 3-900438-07-9 , p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Felder, Franz Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Schoppernau , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1869
Place of death Schoppernau , Vorarlberg