Hans Faber-Perathoner

Hans Faber-Perathoner , actually Johann Faber, (born September 17, 1907 in Ortisei in Val Gardena ; † September 8, 1987 in Bolzano ) was a Tyrolean teacher and author.

He was the son of the wood sculptor Johann Faber (1877–1932) and Philomena, b. Perathoner, a sister of the sculptor Hans Perathoner , and spent his childhood first in Bielefeld and Berlin, the places where his uncle worked, who was supported in his work by his father, and from 1915 in Innsbruck . He studied classical archeology, art history, German and Romance studies at the University of Innsbruck . In 1931 he was with a work at Adolf Pichler hymns Dr. phil. PhD. After military service and prisoner of war worked as a teacher (professor) at the commercial academy in Innsbruck until 1968 . He was a founding member in 1951 and from 1954 to 1964 President of the Tower Association in Innsbruck, then its Honorary President. He spent his retirement in Germany, until 1971 in Cologne, then in Witten, Dortmund and Gungolding .

As a writer, he emerged primarily as a poet and essayist .

Publications (selection)

• Adolf Pichler's hymns . Dissertation University of Innsbruck 1931.
  • Partial print: Adolf Pichler's hymns. Chronological and biographical issues . In: Journal of the Innsbruck Museum Ferdinandeums 16, 1936, pp. 244–284 ( digitized version ).
• Mountain Home [sonnets]. A cycle of poems. Innsbruck: Wagner 1954
• The book of inner life. Letters to a young woman. About death, love and immortality. Imst: Egger 1957 (series of publications of the Turmbund 1)
• Garuda calls out [poems]. Innsbruck: Wagner 1965 (series of publications of the Turmbund 6).
• The Arch of Orion [poems]. Karlsruhe: The Karlsruhe Messenger [around 1968],
• Metamorphoses [poems]. Vienna: Austrian Publishing House 1973.
• The rebirth of man. Reflections on Theodor Seidenfaden's lyrical life's work. Karlsruhe: The Karlsruhe Messenger 1976
• In the lap of language - as immaterial as the wind [cycle of sonnets]. Dülmen: "The bridge" in the "Circle of Friends" 1977
• The eye of the unicorn [poems]. St. Michael: Bläschke 1980,
• In the wake of time. Twelve sonnets. Innsbruck: The Tower Association 1980
• Ugo Fasolo, fragment of an order. Translations from Italian. St. Michael: Bläschke 1980.
• In time [poems]. St. Michael: Bläschke 1982
• And later on man [poems]. Innsbruck: The Tower Association 1987
• The steady stream [poems]. Vienna, Innsbruck: Tyrolia 1990.
• Islands of life. Poems from six decades. Edited from the estate by Ida Faber-Gille. Innsbruck: Tyrolia 1993

literature

• German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century . Volume 8, Francke / Saur, Zurich / Munich 2005, Sp. 195.

Web links

• Lexicon of literature in Tyrol .