Fritz Bartl

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Fritz Bartl (born December 23, 1894 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † July 27, 1962 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian worker poet and writer .

Life

Fritz Bartl was born as the son of Franz and Viktoria Bartl (née Strecka). After finishing school he became a waiter and started working as Picollo in the Hotel de France . During the First World War he became an invalid . In 1917 he married Maria Polasek. In the time of the Great Depression he made his way as a laborer and was finally a railroad employee until 1934.

From 1930 to 1934 he was a board member of the Association of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers Austria, which was founded in 1930 based on the German model . He published social-satirical poems and wrote plays in the Viennese dialect . There were publications in the Arbeiter-Zeitung . In 1933 he became a board member of the Association of Socialist Writers .

During the Austro-Fascist period , Fritz Bartl worked for the magazine Arbeiterwoche . During the Nazi regime he was in the resistance. After 1945 he worked as an employee, published articles and dialect poems.

Works

  • Austrian people. Poems. A cycle , Vienna 1933
  • What I saw in Vienna in 1936
  • Great people. Poems , Vienna 1936
  • Freudenau 1943. A Viennese epic in play scenes. Vienna 1945
  • Wurstelprater. A Viennese epic , Vienna 1946
  • People. Poems , Vienna 1948

literature

  • Evelyne Polt-Heinzl : Unemployment issue. A study of the features of social democratic newspapers and magazines 1927–1934. Dissertation, Vienna 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter to Viktor Matejka dated June 26, 1945
personal data
SURNAME Bartl, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian worker poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1962
Place of death Vienna , Austria