Hans Adler (Author)

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Hans Adler (actually Johann Nepomuk Heinrich Adler ; born April 13, 1880 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † November 11, 1957 ibid) was an Austrian librettist , writer and lawyer . He wrote the libretti for a number of operettas by Nico Dostal .

Life

jurist

Hans Adler was the son of Hofrat Dr. Hans Adler. As a child he wrote his first poems and stories. After graduating from the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster high school in 1899, Adler began studying law at the University of Vienna that same year . In July 1901 he passed the legal history state examination and finished his studies in June 1904 with the judicial state examination.

On July 21, 1905, he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna, and in early January 1906 he took up his first position as a concept intern at the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy. Only about two weeks later he was transferred to the St. Pölten District Commission . In April 1911 he started his service at the Imperial and Royal Patent Office.

Freelance writer

Hans Adler had been ailing since his youth and was given early retirement on June 1, 1915 at the age of 35. From then on he turned his hobby into a profession: he wrote poems ( sonnets , published in Simplicissimus , book edition 1920), short stories, plays, libretti and translated stage works from English and French into German. The collaboration with the composer Nico Dostal turned out to be particularly fruitful . The writer Leo Perutz supported his literary work. In addition to his real name, Adler used a number of pseudonyms, u. a. Hertha Bauer , HH Delar , Anton Hangleitner , Adam Hayndl , Honso , Hanns Rudolf Lonner , AW Hans and Paul Vulpius .

In 1935, Hans Adler was listed as a Jew in the anti-Semitic book Musikalisches Juden-ABC by Hans Brückner and Christa-Maria Rock . The librettist denied, but was arrested by the Gestapo in March 1938 and taken to prison for a short time. Thereupon he applied to be admitted to the Reichsschrifttumskammer , as proof of ancestry had to be provided. The Austrian provincial management of the Chamber confirmed in a letter dated November 11, 1938 to the Theater-Verlag Eirich in Vienna that the writer Hans Adler had provided the necessary documents and his Aryan proof and could be accepted.

In 1943, Adler's lawyer had to intervene with the authorities because doubts about Adler's ancestry had arisen again. In Theodor Fritsch's anti-Semitic Handbuch der Judenfrage (49th edition 1944), Adler was mentioned in the chapter Judaism in Music , the author pointing out not only to list Jews, but also the names of those [...] who were in the most recent Aryan descent in the past thought and acted Jewish .

post war period

During the Second World War , Adler's apartment was destroyed in a bomb attack. In 1945 Adler became a member of the Association of Democratic Writers and Journalists and was allowed to work as a freelance writer again from 1946. On July 4, 1951, Adler married his adopted daughter Ernestine Antonia Fortunata Meitner. Ernestine died on April 30, 1956, and Adler succeeded his wife on November 11, 1957. He died as a result of a car accident.

Hans Adler's estate is kept in the Vienna Library in the city hall.

Quote

A for eagle. Hans Adler. Was that a long time ago ... Before the war I asked the Simplicissimus why he didn't collect these charming little verses that he often found in him. Indeed it did; the book is called 'Affentheater', the verses are still the same, but something must have happened by now. I guess it is. It's mighty melancholy to read that. Anyway: a few verses stick - even if the big fireworks glow of that quatrain:

Whoever determines it ends up in the crap
With his noblest endeavor ...
For example, I'm still a lawyer.
So life is.

no longer illuminates the evening garden - the distance between manure and lawyer has meanwhile decreased slightly. But they're pretty little poems. Kurt Tucholsky in the Weltbühne , July 9, 1929

Awards

1927: Artist Prize of the City of Vienna (together with Franz Theodor Csokor and Max Mell )

2009: The novel Das Städtchen is chosen by the Darmstadt jury as Book of the Month for December. In the same year the title was put on the hotlist , the award of the independent German-language publishers.

Works

Prose and poetry

  • Monkey theater. Tal, Leipzig, Vienna and Zurich, 1920 (2nd increased edition 1929)
  • The city. Novel. Strache, Vienna and Leipzig, 1926
  • The city. Novel. (New edition with an afterword by Werner Wintersteiner), Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-940357-13-7 (Lilienfeldiana vol. 6).
  • The ideal. Stories. (Selected and with an afterword by Werner Wintersteiner), Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-940357-18-2 (Lilienfeldiana vol. 9).

Plays

  • The X. Grotesque case in three acts. 1912
  • The trip to Pressburg. Play in three acts. With a prelude and epilogue by Leo Perutz . Georg Marton, Vienna and Berlin, 1930
  • Premiere. Together with Paul Frank . Comedy in three acts. Georg Marton, Vienna and Berlin, 1930
  • Night before the end of the month. Together with Rudolf Lothar . Comedy in five pictures. Three masks, Berlin, 1933
  • The great miracle. Comedy in three acts. Georg Marton, Vienna, Berlin and London, 1933
  • Girl for everything. Comedy in four acts. Georg Marton, Vienna, 1934
  • Tohuwabohu. Comedy in three acts based on Alexander Lernet-Holenia . Eirich, Vienna, 1936
  • Katinka. Musicless operetta. Together with Adorjan Bonyi . Vienna, 1937
  • Adventure in love. Comedy in seven pictures. Georg Marton, Vienna, 1938. Filmed by Hans H. Zerlett (1938)

Libretti

Scripts and lyrics

Adler worked on several films: He was the scriptwriter of the films Die Menschen haben es Liebe ( People Call It Love (1922) by Mano Digit-Teschenbruck and Sommerliebe by Erich Engel (1942) and wrote the lyrics for the film operettas Die Pompadour (1935) by Willy Schmidt-Gentner and Princess Sissy (1938) by Fritz Thiery .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hans-Harald Müller, in: Walther Killy (Hrsg.): Literaturlexikon. Authors and works in German . Gütersloh, Munich 1992, volume 9, p. 118 (article Leo Perutz )
  2. ↑ Bänkelbuch. textlog.de, accessed on February 20, 2014 .
  3. ↑ http://www.sudelblog.de/index.php?cat=10&paged=2
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adler, Johann Nepomuk Heinrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librettist, writer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1957
Place of death Vienna