Gottfried Glechner

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Gottfried Glechner (born July 3, 1916 in Freiling, municipality of Gurten near Ried im Innkreis , Upper Austria ; † October 10, 2004 in Braunau am Inn ) was an Austrian writer and philologist . He is the father of the Austrian painter and writer Wolfgang Glechner .

Life (before 1979)

Gottfried Glechner was the eighth of nine children in a farming family. In 1936 he passed the Matura at the Episcopal Boys ' Seminar Kollegium Petrinum in Linz- Urfahr. Three years of theology studies followed. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a soldier for six years. After returning home in the summer of 1945, he enrolled in German and Latin at the University of Innsbruck and completed this course, including a teaching examination and doctorate, in four years. The stations of his subsequent teaching activity were the grammar schools in Kremsmünster , Ried and finally Braunau , where he lived from 1960 and taught until his retirement. As a linguist, Gottfried Glechner examined the dialect geography and the etymology of the place names in the Innviertel .

A late writer (1979 to 2004)

Gottfried Glechner published his first volume of stories, “Our Village”, rural stories in Upper Austrian dialect, only in 1979, at the age of 62, but then quickly became known for it, especially in Upper Austria and Bavaria. A good dozen more books followed almost every year. His reputation as a crowd puller earned the passionate speaker within a few years invitations to more than 500 readings, in which he was able to inspire a large group of listeners all over Austria and Bavaria with his works live and also via radio. In 1996 Gottfried Glechner received the culture medal of the state of Upper Austria for his work .

meaning

Gottfried Glechner's stories take place in the traditional rural world of his youth, largely before the mechanization of agriculture. Most are written in Upper Austrian (Innviertel) dialect, whose richness of color Gottfried Glechner uses masterfully. Above all, he gains positive and humorous aspects from the rural world.

Catalog of works

  • The Innviertel dialect. A dialect geographic investigation. Dissertation University of Innsbruck 1949
  • Our village. Simple rural stories in the Innviertel dialect. 1979, ISBN 3-8521-4249-0
  • Our house. Stories and reflections. 1980, ISBN 3-85214-249-0
  • Our room. Cheerful and contemplative stories. 1981, ISBN 3-85214-267-9
  • The Bavarian Odysseus. Dialect epic in hexameter verses. 1982, ISBN 3-90212-140-8
  • Expulsion from Paradise. Memories of childhood. In high-level language. 1983, ISBN 3-85214-343-8
  • Gold rain dust. Poems. 1984, ISBN 3-85214-348-9
  • Edlmann - Bedlmann. A reader. 1985, ISBN 3-85214-444-2
  • Revered stories. From pastors and pastor apprentices. 1986, ISBN 3-85214-490-6
  • Classic stories. Gods and heroes in national costume. 1987, ISBN 3-90084-701-0
  • Meier Helmbrecht. The famous story of Wernher the gardener as a hexameter retelling in Innviertel dialect. 1989
  • Our house. Reflections, stories and poems in dialect ; (expanded edition of Our House , 1980). 1990, ISBN 3-852145-44-9
  • Progress from home. 1991, ISBN 3-90084-708-8
  • Our names. Brief onomatology of the Braunau district; Place names, family names, first names. 1992
  • Village and room stories. Our village and our parlor in one volume. 1993, ISBN 3-900847-15-0
  • Half-funny reader. Nice stories and ugly poems. 1994, ISBN 3-900847-21-5
  • Weichbrunn and schnapps. Rural stories from the Innviertel. 1996, ISBN 3-900847-25-8
  • Going up again. 1997, ISBN 3-900847-37-1
  • To run barefoot. Memories of youth. 1999, ISBN 3-900847-63-0

Gottfried Glechner posthumously

  • Gottfried Glechner's works are still very popular in the southern German-Austrian region. In 2006, two years after his death, an open-air Gottfried Glechner reading festival took place, at which his works were read simultaneously on six reading stages in front of around 1,000 listeners.

Newer activities, books

  • The Gottfried Glechner Reader - the best stories, poems and unpublished things from the estate. Edited by his sons Wolfgang Glechner and Gottfried Glechner jun., 2013, ISBN 3-902923-22-9
  • Glechner reads Glechner - Wolfgang and Gottfried Glechner junior remember their father in the Free Radios in Upper Austria. Series with 26 programs - ran weekly from November 1, 2011 to May 1, 2012 on FRO and FRS - WH 2012/2013, the last broadcast was on May 1, 2013. The two sons also appear live with readings of their father's works .

swell

  • Literature network Upper Austria
  • Baumkircher, Georg: In memoriam Gottfried Glechner - prelude to the Glechner commemorative year; in: Stelzhamerbund der Freunde oö. Dialect poetry. Announcements No. 160, October / November / December 2006, p. 8
  • Mairleitner, Fritz: Memory of our Honorary President Prof. Dr. Gottfried Glechner; in: The Bundwerk. Series of publications of the Innviertler Kulturkreis H. 21, 2006, p. 1 (celebration in the collegiate church Ranshofen); in addition ds. ibid .: Gottfried Glechner memorial reading in Vienna, pp. 1–2.
  • Scientific publications by and about Gottfried Glechner in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Glechner, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Gurten near Ried im Innkreis , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2004
Place of death Braunau am Inn