Georg Graber

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Leonstain Castle in Pörtschach am Wörther See
Memorial plaque on the birthplace of Schloss Leonstain in Pörtschach am Wörther See

Georg Graber (born April 15, 1882 in Pörtschach am Wörther See , † August 27, 1957 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) was an Austrian teacher , classical philologist , storyteller and folklorist .

Life

Georg Graber studied German and classical philology at the universities of Graz , Vienna and Leipzig . In 1905 he received his doctorate with the dissertation “The jumpy in German folk song. - A contribution to the textual criticism and explanation of the folk song. ” To the doctor of philosophy .

Professional activity

School service from 1905

In the same year he returned to Carinthia and began teaching, initially at the grammar schools in Klagenfurt and Villach and from 1909 at the renowned teacher training institute in Klagenfurt.

After the director of this educational establishment, Karl Schranzer, died unexpectedly on July 18, 1919, Graber was temporarily entrusted with the management of the school and was also appointed director of the institute on May 9, 1921. Georg Graber worked in this position until 1926, when he accepted his appointment as state school inspector for compulsory schools in Carinthia. For his successful work in the school service, Graber was awarded the title of Councilor by Federal President Wilhelm Miklas in 1932 .

During the time of National Socialism

From 1940 to 1945 headed Grabner, the department "Culture and Community Care" in the provincial team and Reichsstatthalterei Carinthia and worked from 1942 as head of the Center for Folklore on, as part of the NS - Ahnenerbe in Klagenfurt newly founded Institute for Carinthian State Research at the University of Graz.

The main task of this research center, as a counterweight to the University of Ljubljana / Ljubljana created and Eberhard Kranzmayer was passed to the German claim to the occupied territory was Oberkrains to consolidate historical.

Grabner also taught from 1943 to 1945 as an honorary professor for Carinthian folklore at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Graz.

School inspection and research after 1945

After the end of the Second World War he returned to the school inspectorate and worked in the administrative area until his professional retirement.

Even during his retirement, he continued to devote himself intensively to researching the legends and fairy tales of his Carinthian homeland. He also managed to publish some of his scientific work during this time. Georg Graber died in 1957 at the age of 75. Part of his academic legacy is in the folklore department in the State Museum for Carinthia in the state capital Klagenfurt.

Awards and honors

Works

  • The stroke with the rod of life, an ancient form of the earth cult , In: Carinthia I. Klagenfurt, 1910.
  • The Vierberger. Contribution to the religious and cultural history of Carinthia , In: Carinthia I. Klagenfurt, 1912.
  • (Ed.) Legends from Carinthia , Dieterich, Leipzig, 1914.
  • The entry of the Duke of Carinthia on the Fürstenstein zu Karnburg , Hölder, Vienna, 1919.
  • (Ed.) Kärntner Volksschauspiele, The Christmas Game , Vol. 1, Österreichischer Schulbücherverlag, Vienna, 1922.
  • (Ed.) Kärntner Volksschauspiele, Das Kärntner Paradeisspiel , Vol. 2, Österreichischer Schulbücherverlag, Vienna, 1923.
  • (Ed.) Kärntner Volksschauspiele, The Carinthian Game of the Suffering and Dying of Christ , Vol. 3, Österreichischer Schulbuchverlag, Vienna, 1923.
  • (Ed.) Der Kärntner Totentanz , Österreichischer Schulbuchverlag, Vienna, 1924.
  • (Ed.) Carinthian legends. A selection. , Artur Kollitsch, Klagenfurt, 1925.
  • (Ed.) The Gmünder Hirtenspiel from the seventeenth century or The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ , Spittal an der Drau, self-published, 1930.
  • (Ed.) Passion play from Köstenberg: The suffering of Christ. A tragedy in 3 acts , Leykam, Graz, 1937.
  • Folk life in Carinthia , Leykam, Graz, 1938. (from it the documentations: Christmas in Carinthia. And From St. Stephen's Day to Dreikönig in Carinthia. On haben.at )
  • Folklore , In: Oberkrain , Gaupresseamt ​​of the NSDAP Carinthia, Krainburg , 1942. (Together with Viktor Paschinger and Martin Wutte ).
  • (Ed.) A Carinthian game by Doctor Faust, based on a manuscript by d. Klosters St. Georgen am Längsee , Leykam, Graz, 1943.
  • Briccius in Heiligenblut , Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt, 1950.
  • Hildegard von Stein and her foundation , Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt, 1952.
  • Wooden stick calendar in Carinthia , In: Carinthia I. Klagenfurt, 1954.

literature

  • Johannes Bolte : Georg Graber, Legends from Carinthia, collected and published. Leipzig, Th. Weicher 1914. (Book advertisement [review]) In: Fritz Boehm (Ed.): Journal of the Association for Folklore , Volume 24, Behrend, Berlin, 1914, pp. 327–328. ( Online version on openlibrary.org)
  • Hannjost Lixfeld (Ed.): The nazification of an Academic Discipline. Folklore in the Third Reich . Indiana Univ. Press, Indianapolis, 1994. ISBN 0-253-31821-1 .
  • James R. Dow, Olaf Bockhorn : The Study of European Ethnology in Austria. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004. ISBN 0-7546-1747-5 .
  • Michael Wedekind: The Sword of Science. German Scholars and National Socialist Annexation Policy in Slovenia and Northern Italy. In Michael Fahlbusch (Ed.): German Scholars And Ethnic Cleansing 1920-1945. Berghahn Books, New York, 2006, pp. 272–283. ISBN 1-57181-435-3 .
  • Olaf Bockhorn: "The Dr. Wolfram affair, Vienna" - On the appointment of the professorship for Germanic-German folklore at the University of Vienna. In: Mitchell G. Ash; Wolfram Nieß; Ramon Pils (Hrsg.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. V&R Unipress, Göttingen, 2010, pp. 199–225. (English) ISBN 978-3-89971-568-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published, Klagenfurt, 1907, in: 57th program of the Staats-Obergymnasium in Klagenfurt… 1906/1907.
  2. ^ Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 2: Carinthia (PDF file; 2.1 MB) Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, 2011, p. 27.
  3. ↑ a b Christian Fleck : "To achieve everything that can be achieved in his field ..." Composition and careers of the lecturers at the Karl-Franzens Reichsuniversität Graz.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.uni-graz.at   (PDF file on uni-graz.at ) In Wolfgang Freidl (Ed.): Nazi science as an instrument of destruction. Facultas, Vienna, 2004, p. 105.
  4. ^ Note from the research and teaching group “Das Ahnenerbe” from the discussion about the establishment of the Institute for Carinthian State Research. Document 207 (PDF file; 78 kB) In: Sources on National Socialist Denationalization Policy in Slovenia 1941 - 1945 No. 207, Viri o raznarodovalni politiki v Sloveniji 1941 - 1945, compiled and explained by Tone Ferenc, Maribor 1980
  5. ^ Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system . Volume 2: Carinthia. P. 34


personal data
SURNAME Graber, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folklorist, teacher and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Pörtschach am Wörther See
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1957
Place of death Klagenfurt am Wörthersee