Georg Kotek

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Memorial plaque on Kotek's former home in Vienna

Georg Kotek (born March 4, 1889 in Vienna , † November 2, 1977 in Purkersdorf ) was an Austrian folk song researcher and collector who made a special contribution to the Lower Austrian folk song collection.

Life

Kotek studied Jus at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1907. At the Vienna Academy of Music, he studied voice training, singing and music theory, 1935, he received the honorary title "Professor".

Kotek worked full-time as a lawyer at Wiener Elektrizitätswerke, most recently as administrative director. In 1920 he was the founder of the union of company employees. In 1909 Kotek joined the Vienna People's Choir, of which he was chairman from 1924 until his death in 1977. He was co-editor of the magazine Das deutsche Volkslied and initiated from 1932 to 1938 with the Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG) folk songs in all regions of Austria, which were recorded for the radio. In 1959 he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna . Kotek's 7,000-volume library on folk songs is now part of the central archive of the Austrian Folk Song Works . In addition to written and audio documents, he also collected traditional musical instruments. This collection was acquired by the Austrian Folklore Museum after his death.

Political commitment

Kotek was a member of the SDAP from 1919 until the ban in 1934 , then a supporting member of the paramilitary home guard in the Austro-Fascist corporate state . After the “ Anschluss ” in 1938, he applied for admission to the NSDAP in July of the same year and stated that he had already organized events for illegal NSDAP members in Josefstadt (8th district of Vienna) during the prohibition period . However, Kotek's application was first postponed and only resumed in 1944, since he was considered a "knight of the economy" by the electricity companies. He had quickly changed from the Social Democrats to the Heimwehr and in 1935 was even honored with the title of "Professor".

Kotek remained the chief editor of Das deutsche Volkslied during the Nazi era and was promoted to head of department at the electricity works. At the end of 1944 he referred in letters to the Reichsmusikkammer to the " Aryan principle " implemented by his role model Josef Pommer in the monthly magazine since 1889.

Honors

Private

Kotek was married and had two children.

Works (selection)

  • 20 yodelers from Austria. Compiled by Georg Kotek. Publishing house of the German People's Choir in Vienna, 1935
  • Folk songs about Schneeberg and Semmering, 1942
  • Our game music, 1943 (with Raimund Zoder )
  • Voice of Home, 3 volumes, 1948–54
  • In the Heimgarten, 1949
  • Silent hours, 1950

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Vienna's street names since 1860 as “political places of remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 117ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  2. ↑ Phonogram Archive Austria
  3. ^ Vienna 1959: reports from March 1959
  4. ↑ Archive of the Austrian Folk Song Works ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Austrian National Library  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onb.ac.at
  5. ^ Klaus Beitl: Special exhibition of folk musical instruments. New acquisition of the Georg Kotek collection . Catalog. Austrian Museum of Folklore. Vienna, 1979
personal data
SURNAME Kotek, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folk musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd 1977
Place of death Purkersdorf