Gottfried W. Stix

Gottfried W. Stix (born April 6, 1911 in Vienna ; † September 24, 2010 ) was an Austrian poet and literary historian.

Life

Gottfried W. Stix was born the son of a judge and later notary. He attended the Benedictine grammar school in Kremsmünster. He studied at the University of Vienna and graduated with a Dr. phil. from. In 1936 he received scholarships for Perugia and Rome. During the Second World War he was an armed forces interpreter for Italian in Belgium, northern France, Apulia and Sicily. From 1940 to 1954 he taught German language and literature at the University of Catania and from 1954 in Rome, where he completed his habilitation and then received the chair for the history of Austrian literature at the University of La Sapienza . After 52 years in Italy, Stix lived in Vienna from 1985 and in South Tyrol during the summer.

After his academic career, Stix also wrote poems that have appeared in three volumes as well as in magazines and anthologies and have been translated into Polish, Slovenian, Croatian, English, French, Italian and Japanese.

Awards

• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy
• Prize of the Theodor-Körner-Stiftungsfonds
• Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria

Memberships

Stix was a member of the following organizations:

• Görres Society (Advisory Board Member)
• International Association for Germanic Linguistics and Literature Studies (IVG)
• Literature circle podium
• Austrian PEN Club
• Austrian Writers' Association
• Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria.

Publications

• Myth, tragedy, Christianity. to Max Mell's dramatic poems . Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1959.
• Friedrich von Hagedorn . Image of man and conception of poetry. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1961.
• Trakl and Aquarius. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1968.
• The center sought. Sketches for Austrian literature. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1974.
• light in the windows. haiku- senryu-tanka. Wort und Welt Verlag, Thaur near Innsbruck 1990.
• first the eyes. haikus. Wort und Welt Verlag, Thaur near Innsbruck 1995.
• Where time is at home. Poems, Verlag Österreichisches Literaturforum, Krems 2000.

In addition, he published literary essays on various, predominantly Austrian authors, as well as book reviews and autobiographical writings.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gottfried W. Stix in the catalog of the German National Library
• Petra Sela: Obituary for Gottfried W. Stix on the website of the Austrian Writers' Association ; accessed on June 30, 2016
• Portrait of the author on podium literature