Franz Tumler

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Franz Ernest Aubert Tumler (born January 16, 1912 in Gries near Bozen , † October 20, 1998 in Berlin ) was an Austrian writer with a strong connection to South Tyrol .

Life

Tumler was born as the son of the grammar school teacher Franz Tumler (1878-1913) and his wife Ernestine geb. Fridrich born. After the father's death, the mother and her two children moved to Linz in 1913 . Tumler attended the elementary and community school there as well as the Episcopal Teachers' College . After completing his teacher training, he was a primary school teacher in Paura from 1930 to 1934 and in Buchkirchen / Wels from 1934 to 1938 . As early as 1935 he took a temporary leave of absence in order to have time for his literary work in Bolzano and Vienna .

As a result of his ethnic outlook, Tumler was one of the authors particularly encouraged by the National Socialists in the second half of the 1930s . By the end of the Third Reich, his works had a total print run of around 300,000 copies. In 1938 Tumler resigned from school.

After Austria's annexation to the German Reich in 1938 , Tumler contributed to the "Confession Book of Austrian Poets" (published by the Association of German Writers in Austria ), which enthusiastically welcomed the annexation.

After his marriage to Susanne Lühr, he moved to Hagenberg in Upper Austria in 1939 . He was friends with authors like Gertrud Fussenegger and Josef Weinheber . Tumler was a member of the NSDAP and Obergruppenführer of the SA and published, among other things, in the national-conservative literary magazine " Das Innere Reich ". As an author privileged by those in power, he was exempt from military service, but volunteered for the Wehrmacht in 1941 . He was a soldier in the naval artillery and was briefly captured at the end of the war .

In the Soviet occupation zone , his writings In the year 38 and The Soldier's Oath (both Langen / Müller , Munich 1939) and Austria is a Land of the German Empire ( Eher , Berlin 1941) were placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

After 1945, Franz Tumler did not resume teaching, but continued his existence as a freelance writer . Until 1947 he was prohibited from publishing. From 1949 he lived in Altmünster am Traunsee , since 1954 his main residence was West Berlin , without giving up his Austrian citizenship . In Berlin he made contact with the young German literature of the 1950s, so he took part in several meetings of Group 47 and made friends with Gottfried Benn .

Grave of Franz Tumler in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Franz Tumler had been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1959 and was director from 1967 to 1968 and deputy director of its literature department from 1968 to 1970. He was also a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany . After divorcing his wife Susanne, he married the psychoanalyst Sigrid John in the 1990s. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, he never denied his previous active involvement with the Nazi dictatorship - and the guilt that went with it.

Franz Tumler died in October 1998 at the age of 86 in Berlin. The burial took place in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 12-D-5). The lying grave monument made of Lasa marble - a reference to the South Tyrolean homeland of the deceased - is designed in two parts and shows a closed book in the upper part and an open book in the lower part. It is a foundation of the municipality of Laas , of which Franz Tumler was an honorary citizen since 1982. The grave monument created by the sculptor Alfred Gutweniger was inaugurated in October 2003 in the presence of the widow Sigrid John-Tumler.

Appreciation

In the first phase of his literary work, Franz Tumler was a sympathizer of Nazi ideology . At that time, his works were stylistically strongly influenced by Adalbert Stifter and, as was often the case later, his home in South Tyrol was the setting. After the end of World War II , Tumler dealt with the Third Reich in a number of historical novels , which led to his gradual rehabilitation from contemporary criticism. At the end of the 1950s, Tumler's skepticism towards conventional, realistic literature increased, he turned away from the position of the omniscient narrator and switched to a narrative style influenced by literary modernism, especially by the Nouveau Roman . After a stroke in 1973, Tumler only published new, predominantly lyrical works sporadically and was largely forgotten by the literary public. However, a new discovery began at the latest in the 1990s, and today Tumler is considered an important author of both South Tyrolean and Austrian post-war literature . The Franz Tumler Literature Prize was named in his honor .

Awards and honors

Works

  • The valley of Lausa and Duron , Munich 1935
  • The executor , Munich 1937
  • The hike to the river , Munich 1937
  • In 38 , Munich 1939
  • The oath of soldiers , Munich 1939
  • The first day , Munich 1940
  • Austria is a country of the German Empire , Berlin 1940
  • Call , Munich 1941
  • On the run , Vienna, Berlin, Munich 1943
  • Rural narratives , Graz 1944
  • At the scales , Hameln 1947
  • Something good happened once , in Hameln in 1947
  • Love praise , Hameln 1947
  • Landscapes of the Homecoming , Vienna, Linz, Zurich 1948
  • Old Mr. Lorenz , Salzburg 1949
  • New view of the earth , Hameln 1949
  • Journey home , Salzburg, Cologne, Zurich 1950
  • Berlin, mind and face , Munich, Stuttgart 1953
  • The wedding picture , Salzburg 1953
  • A castle in Austria , Munich 1953
  • The step over , Frankfurt am Main 1956
  • Lake Garda , Munich a. a. 1958 (together with Heinz Müller-Brunke )
  • The coat , Frankfurt am Main 1959
  • Review of a farewell , Zurich 1961
  • Volterra , Frankfurt am Main 1962
  • Record from Trient , Frankfurt am Main 1965
  • Sentences from the Danube , Zurich 1965
  • Shots at Dutschke , Berlin 1968
  • What language I learned , Berlin 1970
  • The State of South Tyrol , Munich 1971
  • About the Akademie der Künste , Berlin 1971
  • A country doctor , Zollikon / Zurich 1972
  • Pia Faller , Munich, Zurich 1973
  • Landscapes and Stories , Munich 1974
  • Album Rom , Innsbruck 1983 (together with Dieter Manhartsberger )
  • Dividing time , Innsbruck 1989
  • The cookie eater. At the scales , Weitra 1990
  • But it is written , Bolzano 1992

In addition to the independent book publications listed above, there are mainly poetry and short prose texts in various newspapers and magazines, such as: Alpenländische Morgenzeitung, Arunda , Das Innere Reich , Dolomiten , Facetten (until 1969 Stillere Heimat ), Das Fenster , Jahresring , Literatur and Criticism , Merian , Merkur , Neue Deutsche Hefte , Die Rampe , language in the technical age , word in the mountains , word and truth .

Editing

Work editions

literature

  • Wilhelm Burger: Home Search. South Tyrol in the work of Franz Tumler. Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Lang 1989. (= European university publications; Series 1, German Language and Literature; 1125) ISBN 3-631-41744-6
  • Alessandro Costazza: Franz Tumler. Una letteratura di confine. Merano: Ed. Alpha e Beta 1992. ISBN 88-7223-003-9
  • Border areas. A literary map of South Tyrol, ed. v. Beatrice Simonsen. Bolzano 2005. ISBN 88-7283-243-8
  • Leonhard Huber: The architecture of the text. The relationship between spatial and language constructs in Franz Tumler's prose. Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Lang 1994. (= European university publications; series 1, German language and literature; 1438) ISBN 3-631-46825-3
  • Arsenal. Contributions to Franz Tumler , ed. v. Peter Demetz . Munich u. a .: Piper 1977. ISBN 3-492-02256-1
  • Looking for the word. Franz Tumler for his 80th birthday , ed. v. Ferruccio delle Cave. Bozen: Verl.-Anst. Athesia 1992. ISBN 88-7014-676-6
  • Arnaldo Di Benedetto: “Crucchi” e “Walschen” in Tirolo. Riflessi narrativi. In: Fra Germania e Italia. Studi e flashes letterari. Firenze: Olschki 2008, pp. 141–61.
  • Franz Tumler. 75th birthday contributions. Symposium 9./10. January 1987, Vienna , ed. v. State House Tyrol. Editing: Annemarie Schermer, Hansjörg Waldner, Ursula Weyrer. Vienna: Documentation Center for Newer Österr. Literature 1987. ISBN 3-900467-14-5
  • Hansjörg Waldner: Franz Tumler: The executive . In: Germany looks to us Tyroleans . Südtirol-Romane between 1918 and 1945, Vienna: Picus 1990, pp. 161–167. ISBN 3-85452-210-X
  • What language did I learn. Texts by and about Franz Tumler , ed. v. Hans Dieter Zimmermann. Munich u. a .: Piper 1986. (= Piper series; 681) ISBN 3-492-10681-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German writers Austria (ed.): Confession book of Austrian poets. Krystall Verlag, Vienna 1938
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 622.
  3. ↑ a b c Karl-Markus Gauss: Careers of a writer - Franz Tumler - from National Socialist convicts to skeptical style artist . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 12 . Zurich January 16, 2012, p. 33 .
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-t.html
  5. ^ Author Franz Tumler died in Berlin . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Thursday October 22, 1998. p. 9. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 496.
  7. ↑ Magdalena Dietl Sapelza: marble grave stone for Tumler . On: the Vinschger ( https://www.dervinschger.it/ ). November 6, 2003. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Tumler, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tumler, Franz Ernest Aubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer with a strong connection to South Tyrol
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Gries near Bozen
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1998
Place of death Berlin