Hans Haidenbauer

Hans Haidenbauer (born October 5, 1902 in Langenwang , Styria , † April 25, 1970 in Graz ) was an Austrian working-class poet .

Life

Hans Haidenbauer was an illegitimate child. He grew up with his mother, who was a waitress, and her parents. At the age of 13 he became a laborer in a large steelworks in Hönigsberg in Upper Styria . After the First World War he became a works council and soon became the only shop steward of the Social Democratic Party in Langenwang . He lived in a one-room kitchen apartment with his wife and two sons. After losing his job, he became a yard worker and iron girder.

In 1931 he wrote his first poem on a borrowed typewriter. In the neighborhood he was soon called the "comrade with the typewriter". People came to him to have a letter written. On November 12, 1931, he gave a "State Holiday Speech" on the radio as "Unknown Worker and Citizen of Austria". His first reading of his own works on the radio took place three days later. As a result, poems were published in the Sunday supplements of the Arbeiter-Zeitung and other social democratic media, in which he published under the name Hönigsberg. In 1933 he became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers . Furthermore, the Krystall-Verlag brought out his volume of poetry everyday . For this volume of poetry he was the first worker in Austria to receive the Julius Reich Prize .

After February 1934 , Hans Haidenbauer could continue to publish. In 1934, his radio play Das Wunder was premiered on Grazer Rundfunk . In 1934 he became a specialist for workers' education in the Chamber of Labor in Graz. In 1938 he lost his job and in 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After 1945 Hans Haidenbauer was a department head in the miners' insurance company in Graz.

plant

• Everyday life . Poems, Vienna 1933

Awards

• 1933 Julius Reich Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Haidenbauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society .