Hanns Studniczka

Hanns Studniczka (actually Johann Baptist Erasmus Hanns Studniczka ; born June 18, 1891 in Gerasdorf near Vienna , † July 2, 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German writer , translator and lawyer .

Life

Studniczka was born as the son of archeology professor Franz Studniczka . He attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig until 1910 . He then did his military service in the Royal Saxon Army . From 1912 he studied German , art history and law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the University of Leipzig . From 1914 to 1918 he was an artillery soldier in World War I, most recently as a lieutenant . In 1923 and 1924 he passed his legal state exams. He completed his legal traineeship at the Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office. From 1924 to 1926 he was legation secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Free State of Saxony. From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the government council of the Leipzig office and district administration . In 1933 he was retired. From 1933 to 1938 he lived in Rome and on the Italian island of Capri . From 1938 to 1944 he lived again in Germany a. a. in Munich . From 1944 to 1954 he stayed near Freiburg. In 1945 he became a member of the Southwest German Association of Authors. From 1954 to 1975 he took up residence in Freiburg. He has translated works by Federico Fellini , Simone de Beauvoir , Baltasar Gracián , Thomas Elyot , Torquato Tasso , Massimo Bontempelli and Voltaire from French, Italian and Spanish into German. In 1964 he received the Medaglia Culturale d'Oro from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . He was married to the writer Ingeborg Hecht since 1948 .

Works

• Saturn Earth. Places, men and powers of Italy. Berlin 1914

literature

• Bernd Ottnad, Fred Ludwig Sepaintner: Baden-Württemberg biographies. Volume 3, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, p. 416.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanns Studniczka in the catalog of the German National Library