Friedrich Uhl (journalist)

Friedrich Uhl, lithograph by Georg Decker, ca.1848

Friedrich Uhl (born May 14, 1825 in Teschen ; † January 20, 1906 in Mondsee ) was an Austrian journalist and writer . From 1872 he was editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung .

Life

Friedrich Uhl was born as the son of an estate manager and later an actor as well as a merchant's daughter. He first attended high schools in Teschen and Troppau , and from 1842 to 1844 studied philology at the University of Vienna . In 1845 he made his debut with a “Silesian Village History” in the Sunday papers, where larger works were subsequently published as sequels, for example the “Fairy Tale from the Vistula Valley”. In addition to Franz Tuvora, he worked for the newspaper “Der Volksfreund”, where in September 1848 he advocated the freedom of journalistic reporting. According to his own statements, he was no longer involved in political journalism after the end of the revolution .

He started in the mid 1850s as a journalist at the daily newspaper Die Presse of August Zang , where he in the feature worked and took over the department fine arts and theater criticism. In 1859 he was one of the founding members of the Concordia press club . In 1863 he married Marie Reischl (* 1845). In 1862 he switched to the daily newspaper "Der Ambassador" and was editor-in-chief there until the paper was closed after Anton von Schmerling resigned in 1865. He then worked as a freelance writer and went to the Neue Freie Presse , where he worked as a war correspondent at the Austrian headquarters in 1866. In 1870 he was appointed to the commission for the preparation of the 1873 World's Fair .

From October 1872 he was provisional and from 1875 final editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung , for which he wrote numerous feature articles as well as theater and opera reviews. In 1900 he was replaced by the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este . Uhl retired to his villa in Mondsee , but his reviews continued to appear in the Wiener Zeitung until 1904.

Neptune figure as part of the Power to the Sea fountain

According to the Wiener Zeitung, the figure of Neptune in the Power to the Sea fountain on the facade of the Michaeler tract of the Hofburg should show the portrait of Friedrich Uhl. One of Friedrich Uhl's two daughters, the journalist and writer Marie Weyr (1864–1903), was married to the sculptor Rudolf Weyr . The second daughter Frida Strindberg-Uhl was married to the playwright August Strindberg .

Works (selection)

• Fairy tales from the Weichselthale . Vienna 1847
• 1848: From the Banate
• 1851: On the Tisza
• 1863–64: Die Theaterprinzessin , 3 volumes
• 1878: The Fragstein House
• 1880: The Ambassador , 2 volumes
• 1887: Color Rush , 2 volumes
• 1908: From my life (posthumous publication)

Awards

• 1872: Appointment to the government council
• 1874: Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown III. class
• 1900: Knight of the Leopold Order
• 1900: Appointment to the court councilor

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Uhl, Friedrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 48th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1883, pp. 239–241 ( digitized version ).
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Uhl, Friedrich. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 499 ( digitized version ).
• Th. Venus:  Uhl, Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 15, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957–2013, p. 58 f. (Direct links on p. 58 , p. 59 ).
• Traute Dittrich: Friedrich Uhl as a theater critic . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1950.

Web links

• Friedrich Uhl in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Entry on Friedrich Uhl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wiener Zeitung: The author Marie Weyr: Edelfedern carved in stone . Article dated November 3, 2016, accessed August 4, 2017.