Fritz Lampl

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Fritz Lampl (born September 28, 1892 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 5, 1955 in London ) was an Austrian writer and glass artist.

Photo by Ludwig Schwab from the 1930s

Life

Lampl, who came from the upper Jewish bourgeoisie in Vienna, published his first poems from 1912 in Ludwig von Ficker's magazine Der Brenner and in Hermann Meister's Saturn . Meister also published other works by Lampl. Since two of his older brothers had already died in World War I, Lampl did not have to enter and, like many other fellow writers, worked in the Vienna war press headquarters . There he became acquainted with Albert Ehrenstein and Franz Werfel , with whom he published the expressionist magazine Der Daimon after the end of the war and founded the short-lived cooperative publishing house in 1919 . A first anthology of poems from the years 1912 to 1914 was published in 1920 by EP Tal-Verlag , in which Lampl also worked as a lecturer until 1923. In addition, in the early 1920s he published the works of writers he was friends with, namely Otfried Krzyzanowskis , Isidor Quartners and Robert Zellermayers.

During the war he made the acquaintance of Hilde Berger. After the war he married her. Together with Hilde's brothers Josef and Artur Berger , two highly talented architects and designers, Lampl opened the Bimini workshops in 1923 , an artistic glass manufacture that was well known beyond Vienna within a few years. The inspiration for the foundation was a Berlin exhibition by the glass artist Marianna von Allesch , which Lampl had visited and whose works appeared to him as “frozen poetry”. From then on, employed glassblowers in the Bimini workshops produced mainly abstract glass figurines in simple and elegant shapes, mostly one or at most two-colored, from opaque glass based on designs by Lampl and the Berger brothers. The name Bimini comes from a late, fragmentary narrative by Heinrich Heine about a trip to the legendary Caribbean island of Bimini , where Juan Ponce de León is said to have looked for the fountain of youth.

Lampl continued writing poems during the following years flourishing glass production, and if the workshop the evening closed, opened a literary meeting in the reception room of the company, of the twelve-tone composer Josef Matthias Hauer , the architect and furniture designer Paul Engelmann and his friend, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to counted his guests. However, the rise of National Socialism forced Lampl and the Berger brothers to emigrate. Josef Berger emigrated to England in 1936, his brother Artur to Russia and Lampl also went to England in 1938, where he set up a glass production again, which he now - again with reference to a magical island from a poem, this time by Mörike - because of trademark problems Orplid called. Since the products made by Lampl and Berger are often difficult to distinguish from those made by numerous imitators, Bimini & Orplid is now often a generic name for glass art in this particular style.

In 1940 Lampl was interned as an “enemy alien”. After his release he found the production facility destroyed by German bombs. The subsequent restricted production conditions in the basement of the apartment on the one hand and the desire to employ as many technically uneducated friends as possible in English exile on the other, led to the switch to the production of decorative buttons made of glass and glass heads for hat pins.

Lampl died in London in 1955 at the age of 62. His estate is in the Austrian National Library .

Works

  • Poems. Leipzig / Vienna 1920.
  • Escape. Comedy in three acts. Vienna / Leipzig 1920. (Reprint Nendeln 1973)
  • Slaves of freedom. Novellas and fairy tales. Heidelberg / Leipzig 1925. (2nd edition Heidelberg 1946)
  • 12 poems. Vienna 1936.
  • Song of silence. Poems. Heidelberg 1947.
Release
  • Daimon. A monthly. Vienna 1918, ZDB -ID 2518754-5 .
  • The new daimon. Vienna 1919, ZDB -ID 2518755-7 .
  • Robert Zellermayer: Stories from the estate. 1920.
  • Isidor Quartner: Poems from the estate. 1920.

literature

  • Herbert Ohrlinger: Lampl, Fritz. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Edition. Volume 7, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 180 f.
  • Hilde Spiel : Fritz Lampl died. In: New Austria. March 15, 1955.
  • Murray G. Hall : Austrian Publishing History 1918–1938. Volume 2, Vienna 1985, pp. 143-154.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orplid is the mythical island that appears several times in Mörike's novel painter Nolten . Best known in the verses from the poem Gesang Weylas : “You are Orplid, my country! / The distant shines; / Your sunlit beach steams from the sea / The fog that moistens the gods cheek. "
personal data
SURNAME Lampl, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1955
Place of death London