Franz Podesser

Franz Podesser (born December 4, 1895 in Tangern , Carinthia ; † January 12, 1969 in Spittal an der Drau , Carinthia) was a Carinthian dialect poet .

Life

Franz Podesser was born the illegitimate son of the maid Elisabeth Podesser in Tangern, northeast of Seeboden on Lake Millstatt . His father was a servant, minstrel and watchmaker and was called minstrel Heina . As the unmarried child of a maid, he had no easy life and had to work hard from an early age. When he was seven years old, his mother married and the family moved to Aich near Spittal an der Drau . The stepfather was strict and Podesser had to hire himself out as a keeper boy at home . At the age of fourteen he was supposed to start an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, but became a woodworker and later worked as a farmhand. At the age of sixteen he was an alpine keeper on the Millstätter Alpe during the summer months. There he found a torn book with poems and stories in a hut. This inspired him to try a few verses himself. When the First World War broke out , he volunteered and was seriously wounded in the twelfth battle of the Isonzo near Bovec . From 1919 he worked as a saw worker on frame saws . During the work he came up with ideas for his poems and wrote them down in the evening after work. He worked for the longest time on the Maltheiner saw near Radl in the municipality of Trebesing, which was powered by water from the Radlbach . In 1924 Franz Podesser married his wife Theresia in Trebesing. This marriage resulted in five children. In 1931 Podesser joined the NSDAP and was also a member of the Sturmabteilung . In 1937 he suffered a stomach bleeding and was temporarily unable to work. He took over in 1938 a job as a postman and post Schaffner . From 1938 to 1944/1945 Franz Podesser was the local group leader of the NSDAP local group Trebesing.

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In 1924 Podesser's first poem 's Anschiefern' appeared in the Alpenländische Rundschau in Klagenfurt . The publication of his first volume of poetry was supported by Karl Bacher . In 1930 his second publication Samholz und Sagspän was published by Artur Kollitsch in Klagenfurt. Woodcuts by Switbert Lobisser served as an illustration of the work . Another patron of Podesser's poetry was the Villach writer Rudolf Haas . Podesser published books such as ' s Hamatbrünndl , Bergwassalan or Aus'n Hamatgartlan , which achieved several editions. In 1964 the book appeared on since Gåssnbånk , which in addition to poems and diary entries, the prose narrative The groaße cast includes that the devastating floods in 1903 in Malta Valley discussed. Podesser wrote for various newspapers and magazines such as the Kärntner Volkszeitung , the Agrarian Post in Vienna and the Allgemeine Bauernzeitung in Klagenfurt . Some of his poems were set to music by composers such as Günther Mittergradnegger or Justinus Mulle for Carinthian songs.

Honors

A memorial stone was dedicated to the poet in his home community Trebesing. In Klagenfurt in the Viktring district , a street was named after him.

literature

Franz Podesser: Samholz and Sagspän: dialect poems by a Carinthian sawmill . Artur Kollitsch, Klagenfurt 1930 (80 pages).
Literature by and about Franz Podesser in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b baptismal register . Evangelical parish in Unterhaus, S. 40 , 1st entry ( matricula-online.eu [accessed on November 17, 2019]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Uwe Baur and Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938–1945 . tape 2 , Carinthia. Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78653-5 , p. 201-202 .
↑ Podesser, Franz, AEIOU. In: Austria Forum, the knowledge network. March 25, 2016, accessed November 17, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Franz Podesser: Samholz and Sagspän: dialect stories and poems from Carinthia . European publishing house, Vienna 1965, Matthias Maierbrugger: The life and work of Franz Podesser, p. 4-8 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Klagenfurt memorial committee: Contaminated street names. In: Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
^ Carinthian official and address book 1939 . 23rd year. Ala Anzeige-Aktiengesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1939, IV. NSDAP.-authorities, p. 642 ( findbuch.at [PDF; accessed November 20, 2019]).

Remarks

↑ The name of the saw is derived from the house name of the rural property where the saw was located. The house name in turn goes back to the Mallentein Castle located there.

personal data
SURNAME	Podesser, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian dialect poet (Carinthia)
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tangers
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1969
Place of death	Spittal an der Drau

[Unterhaus1895-1] tismal register . Evangelical parish in Unterhaus, S. 40 , 1st entry ( matricula-online.eu [accessed on November 17, 2019]).

[Baur2011-2] Uwe Baur and Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938–1945 . tape 2 , Carinthia. Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78653-5 , p. 201-202 .

[3] Podesser, Franz, AEIOU. In: Austria Forum, the knowledge network. March 25, 2016, accessed November 17, 2019 .

[Podesser1965-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Franz Podesser: Samholz and Sagspän: dialect stories and poems from Carinthia . European publishing house, Vienna 1965, Matthias Maierbrugger: The life and work of Franz Podesser, p. 4-8 .

[Gedenkbeirat-6] Klagenfurt memorial committee: Contaminated street names. In: Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .

[7] Carinthian official and address book 1939 . 23rd year. Ala Anzeige-Aktiengesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1939, IV. NSDAP.-authorities, p. 642 ( findbuch.at [PDF; accessed November 20, 2019]).

[5] The name of the saw is derived from the house name of the rural property where the saw was located. The house name in turn goes back to the Mallentein Castle located there.