Friedrich Schreyvogl

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Friedrich Schreyvogl (born July 17, 1899 in Mauer (Vienna) , Austria-Hungary ; † January 12, 1976 in Vienna ; also: Friedrich Schreyvogel ) was an Austrian writer, publicist, dramaturge and culture editor.

Schreyvogl was a Catholic national author and was considered a "model author of Austrofascism ". He played an important role in the National Socialist infiltration of Austrian literature before the “ Anschluss ” and became an apologist for National Socialism in the German Empire .

Life

Schreyvogl was a great-great-nephew of Joseph Schreyvogel . He studied political science with Othmar Spann, among others . In 1922 he was one of the founding members of the European Cultural Association founded by Karl Anton Prince Rohan . Before he became chairman of the Catholic Austrian Writers' Association in 1927, he was editor of the magazine Abendland . In 1927 he became a professor of dramaturgy and literature at the State Academy. From 1931 he was also a lecturer at the Reinhardt Seminar and from 1935 to 1938 a consultant for the Austrian State Theaters. Schreyvogl was a close friend of Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg and Cardinal Theodor Innitzer . In Heinz Kindermann's völkischer anthology Des Deutschen Dichters Sendung im Gegenwart (1933), Schreyvogl described “The poets as the vanguard of the nation”. He played “one of the most disastrous roles” in the National Socialist infiltration of Austrian literature.

In 1933 Schreyvogl left the PEN Club . He held the office of state trustee for the theater in Vienna as part of the VF work "New Life". In 1934 he joined the illegal NSDAP in Austria , and in March 1938 he received NSDAP membership number 6,187,644. He cooperated with the NSDAP , was an informer for the Reichsschrifttumskammer , as well as co-founder and " Säckelwart " of the National Socialist Association of German Writers in Austria . In 1938 Schreyvogl was represented with an article in the Confession Book of Austrian Poets , which was published by the Association of German Writers in Austria and in which the authors enthusiastically welcomed the " Anschluss of Austria ". “I really want nothing but work”, he wrote a few weeks after the “Anschluss” to Hermann Heinz Ortner , “now we have enough space!”

Schreyvogl, he moved to film and worked as a dramaturge and screenwriter. His work also includes over 20 plays, many of which only made it to the premiere. His early stage works were “little wanted” in the Nazi state ; authors like himself and Hermann Heinz Ortner were regarded as lavishers by the National Socialists. The clever Viennese (1941) and Titania (1943), however, were great successes with the public. The clever Viennese was performed over 2,000 times by around 100 theaters, and in 1941/42 the comedy had 64 performances at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna alone .

After 1945 Schreyvogl remained firmly anchored in literary life and knew how to portray himself as an “unchangeable Catholic poet”. He denied having been an illegal National Socialist, stated that he was a member of the NSDAP between May 1938 and the end of the war, and at the same time requested that the registration be waived. In the cabaret “Blattl vorm Mund” by Helmut Qualtinger and Carl Merz , Schreyvogl's political “agility” from the Catholic corporate state to the apologist of National Socialism is caricatured as a “black-and-brown screeching bird”. In 1946 he was the founder and president of the Austrian LVG (Literary Verwertungs-Gesellschaft), which serves to protect the literary rights of its members. From 1952 he was chief dramaturge at the theater in der Josefstadt . and between 1954 and 1959 second director, then chief dramaturge of the Vienna Burgtheater .

From 1956 until his death in 1976 Schreyvogl was an extraordinary member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (West), literature section.

His honorary grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 41).

Schreyvogl is considered to be a "nimble, fast and prolific writer". Schreyvogl is also important as a narrator. According to Wilpert , his novels are “broad paintings of the times from the time before the First World War.” They also developed “the Austrian idea”.

Works

Grave of Friedrich Schreyvogl

Dramas:

  • The torn curtain, 1920
  • Good Friday, 1920
  • Resurrection, 1921
  • The Eternal Way, 1921
  • The Mariazell Mother of God Play, 1924
  • The dark emperor, 1927
  • Johann Orth, 1928
  • The God in the Kremlin, 1937
  • The lovers, 1939
  • The clever Viennese woman, 1941
  • The white lady, 1942
  • Titania, 1943
  • The temptation of Tasso, 1955
  • The man in the furnace, 1957

Novels:

  • The Antichrist, 1921
  • Tristan and Isolde, 1930
  • Love Comes to Power, 1932
  • Franz Grillparzer. Lonely among connoisseurs, 1935
  • Brigitte and the angel. A novel for lovers, 1936
  • The Nibelungs, 1940
  • A symphony of fate, 1941
  • Friedlander, 1943
  • The Son of God, 1948
  • Venus in Scorpio, 1961
  • A Century Too Early, The Fate of Joseph II. 1964
  • The Burgtheater. Reality and Illusion, 1965
  • The Lady in Gold., 1957

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Poems, essays, scripts, opera texts, translations

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher, Sabine Fuchs: Power literature war. Böhlau, 1998.
  2. ↑ Gerald Tuma: From the corporate state poet to a Nazi apologist. Master's thesis, Vienna 1996. - Dates of the magazine: German monthly books for European culture, politics and economy. Gilde-Verlag, Cologne, Vienna, Berlin.
  3. ↑ a b Emmerich Tálos, Ernst Hanisch, Wolfgang Neugebauer: National Socialist Rule in Austria 1938–1945. Publishing house for social criticism, 1988.
  4. ↑ Heinz Kindermann : The German poet's mission in the present. P. Reclam Jun., 1933.
  5. ^ Friedbert Aspetsberger, Norbert Frei, Hubert Lengauer: Literature of the post-war period and the fifties in Austria. ÖBV, 1984.
  6. ^ Murray G. Hall: The Paul Zsolnay publishing house : from the foundation to the return from exile. Niemeyer, 1994.
  7. ↑ Gerhard Renner: Austrian Writers and National Socialism (1933–1940): the “Association of German Writers in Austria” and the establishment of the Reich Chamber of Literature in the “Ostmark”. Booksellers Association, 1986.
  8. ↑ Reinhold Hangler: The case of Franz Karl Ginzkey and Seewalchen: a documentation. Mauthausen-Aktiv-Vöcklabruck, 1989.
  9. ↑ Lovers in ruins . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1950, pp. 40 ( online - 18 October 1950 ).
  10. ↑ Carl Zuckmayer (Gunther Nickel, Johanna Schrön): Secret report . Wallstein, 2002
  11. ^ Karl Müller: turning points without consequences. Müller, 1990.
  12. ↑ Helmut Qualtinger , Carl Merz : "Blattl vorm Mund": Texts for the "New Courier".
  13. ^ Hilde Haider-Pregler , Peter Roessler: Time of Liberation: Vienna Theater after 1945. Picus, 1998.
  14. ↑ Review of Vienna 1959
  15. ^ Friedrich Schreyvogel . Entry at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
  16. ↑ picture of the grave
  17. ^ The Protestant intellectual milieu in Germany, its press and its networks (1871–1963). Published by Michel Grunewald, Uwe Puschner, Berne: Peter Lang 2008. ISBN 978-3-03911-519-8 .
  18. ^ Gero von Wilpert (Ed.): Lexicon of world literature. German-speaking authors; Kröner 2004, p. 561.
personal data
SURNAME Schreyvogl, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schreyvogel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wall (vienna)
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1976
Place of death Vienna