Hans Lohberger

Hans Lohberger (born January 25, 1920 in Graz - Waltendorf ; † October 4, 1979 at Reinerkogel near Graz) was an Austrian writer. He wrote well over 6,000 poems and over 10,000 aphorisms . He was a member of the Styrian Writers' Union .

Life

childhood and education

Hans Lohberger was the son of Julius Lohberger (* 1888 in Fürstenfeld ), a professor at the commercial academy in Graz and later director of the Zankl paint factory , auditor , tax consultant , commercial advisor and lecturer in business administration at the University of Graz . Lohberger's mother was Auguste Lohberger (* 1890 in Graz as Auguste Edle von Casati). She died of a brain tumor when Hans was five months old . In the following years Luise Tybery, a school colleague and childhood friend of his mother, took over the care and upbringing of the son. With that she fulfilled her last will.

After Hans Lohberger attended elementary school for four years, he went to the Academic Gymnasium in Graz in 1930 . During this time he made his first attempts at poetry. Lohberger, who opposed the emergence of National Socialism at the time , wrote his first philosophical work Friedrich Nietzsche at the age of 17 - out of date? Self-confessions and declarations of war . In 1939 Hans Lohberger graduated from high school ; his grades in German and philosophy were "very good".

Study, job and labor service

After he had done his Reich Labor Service , Lohberger began studying medicine at the end of 1939. He broke off this for the time being in order to start working at Steiermärkische Bank in Graz in spring 1941 . As about a year earlier, but only for a short time for health reasons, Lohberger was drafted into the Wehrmacht in autumn 1941 for the duration of the war. There he worked in the ground crew in Germany and France; because of serious illnesses he was often in the hospital .

Lohberger's father married a second wife again in 1941. On July 31, 1942, Hans Lohberger married Ilse Taschner in Graz, with whom he had three children; Kurt (* 1943), Peter (* 1943) and Eva (* 1955).

In mid-1943 Lohberger continued his medical studies while serving in the war. For this he was first in Münster and later in Graz. However, he broke off his studies again in 1945 after five semesters. At the end of the same year Lohberger published his literary works for the first time. They appeared in the Neue steirische Zeitung , 1946 in the cultural magazine Austria and the Steierblatt (from 1951 Südost Tagespost ). In May 1946 his poems and fairy tales were read by Lois Groß on the radio.

Writing activity

Since he felt that his job as a bank clerk was a hindrance to his literary work, he gave it up in 1946 and became a freelance writer. From 1948 Lohberger's works such as poems and fairy tales could be heard again on the radio, which was supported by Otto Hofmann-Wellenhof .

However, his activity as a freelance writer offered no financial basis, so that at the beginning of 1949 he took up a new professional activity in the accounting department of the Office of the Styrian Provincial Government. However, this happened with a significant decrease in his literary output.

From 1954 he devoted himself to this again. He published in newspapers, including the Grazer Tageszeitung , the Südost Tagespost , the Kleine Zeitung , the Neue Zeit , the Wiener Zeitung and Europaruf . In 1956 Lohberger joined the Historical Association for Styria . On December 7, 1964, he won the poetry competition of the Weilburg publishing house in Vienna .

In 1965, Hans Lohberger's foster mother Luise Tybery died; he mourned her very much. He visited her grave almost every day. In addition, Lohberger and his wife were increasingly growing apart. In this difficult time for him, over 2,000 poems were written from 1965 to 1969, which he called "Muttertotenlieder" - based on the loving children's poems by Lohberger, Kurt Schuschnigg coined the opposite term "children's life songs". During this time Lohberger also got to know Sigfrid Bein , to whom he, like other writers and philosophers, had sent his printed works in recent years. Bein was a great support to him in the following period.

Worsened state of illness

Hans Lohberger, who had fallen ill with above-average frequency since his birth, had to suffer increasingly from a significantly deteriorated state of health from the end of the 1960s. He was plagued by headaches , speech disorders , circulatory disorders , dizziness , fainting spells and collapses. His literary creativity decreased significantly in 1970 and finally disappeared completely in 1972; He also gave up his job as a state official and retired on May 1, 1970. Five days later, on May 6, Lohberger's father died.

In February Lohberger left the original manuscripts of his works to the University Library in Graz ; the stack was two and a half meters high. He submitted some of the papers later. In the last years of his life, Lohberger wrote new works, including over 1,500 poems, after a period of inactivity, despite his very poor state of illness. The frequent use of medication against the frequent headaches had led to drug addiction that could only be combated with success in isolated cases.

Hans Lohberger died in 1979. After choking at dinner, he bumped into a corner of the house. He was taken to the hospital by the ambulance service - but already died. The death certificate states the place of death "in the ambulance" and the cause of death " heart attack ". His urn was buried on the eastern slope of the Reinerkogel because he refused to be buried in the family crypt in St. Leonhard's cemetery .

Works

Only a fraction of Lohberger's numerous works has been published. This was partly due to the Second World War and his membership in the National Socialist Party, which prevented him from publishing in the post-war period. Another reason was the shortage of paper in the press and publishing industry at the time and the discontinuation of various magazines and publishers, including the Stiasny publishing house in 1969. Another reason is the lack of public support. Lohberger received no public subsidies except for his work Rhyming hours of life . He also received no funding from the Styrian Writers' Union. Lohberger's aversion to the public and his reserved manner prevented him from adopting a more socially oriented attitude.

Monographs published in print are highlighted.

Philosophical writings

• 1938: The anti-Eckehart - today's self-talk, diary sheets for the day after tomorrow
• 1938: Dream, Action and Nature - Reflections on Art
• 1944: The Unrecognized Soldier - Notes on the War History of Free Man
• 1944: Christ the Redeemed - An attempt at knowledge in symbols
• 1944: Buddha's secret in conscience - contributions to a botany of mankind
• 1944: The permanent Reformation - marginal notes on a diagnosis of the modern age
• 1950–1952: Proteus Perigrinus - The Wanderer and the World (under the code name Laual Naran )
• 1950–1953: Equalization of the unequal - A philosophy of thinking as action (under the code name Laual Naran )
• 1954: Doppelganger man - philosophy and morality of the at the same time (summary of the basic statements of the at the same time of the unequal )
• 1954/1955: Oswald Sprengles downfall - some things about the cult of culture
• 1955: Notes on the Coexistence of All Art
• 1955: The Classless Society - Notes on the Reality of a Utopia
• 1955: The lively dynamic of the at the same time - insignia of a coexistenceistic philosophy
• 1959: Law and Justice - Notes by an enemy of the paragraph
• 1959: On the rhyme of our senses - contributions to a synaesthetic knowledge
• 1960: Appearance and Being - Explorations of an amphilogical science and bifrontal philosophy
• 1963: Jatus the Born Again - In the Beginning Was the End (published 1964)
• 1965–1968: Compendium philosophicum (as an abbreviated new version of all of his philosophical writings; however, it remained unfinished)
• 1968: Friedrich Nietzsche and Resa von Schirnhofer (published in the journal for philosophical research )
• 1970: Cosmic Philosophy - Contemporary? (published as a supplement to the journal for philosophical research )

Aphorisms

• 1940/1941: Of mass and state
• 1940–1942: Zwischenland Seele - Nachdenkliches und Vordenkliches (published in print in 1967; contained around 500 aphorisms)
• 1954: Word, writing and numbers
• 1954: Creative Knowledge - Sleeping Science - Reforms and Reagents
• 1954: Free What for? - Thoughtful and thoughtful
• 1954: About Perception and False Perception - About the sense and nonsense of our senses
• 1954: Born to see, ordered to see - Of light in the light of the soul
• 1954: Ideas and failures - proverbs and thoughts
• 1963/1964: Kaleidoscope (contained over 2,000 aphorisms from around 50 areas of meaning)
• 1971: Sentences and opposites
• 1973: thoughts and ideas

Poems

• When the Lord was born (on November 27, 1949 as the first setting of Artur Michl one of Lohberger's poems first publicly performed)
• 1953: Rhyming Lessons of Life - Anecdotes and Poems
• 1953: Primavera Siciliana (collection of poems; originated on a trip to Sicily )
• 1965: Lied aus dem Lärm (from 1966 partly as a setting by Jürgen Ewers and Alarich Wallner)
• 1966: Game of the Wind (collection of poems)

Biographies

• 1956: Biography about Hans von Hammerstein-Equord
• 1957: Hans von Hammerstein, the poet and man

In addition, Lohberger wrote biographies about Anton Graf Proschek-Osten , Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall , Faust Pachler and Marie Pachler-Koschak . Hans Lohberger also wrote the articles about the two last named people in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1978. He also wrote the biography of Peter Rosegger , Hans Kloepfer , Wilhelm Kienzl , Rudolf Hans Bartsch , Anton Schlossar and Ernst Décsey .

• 1962: Kurt Schuschnigg - An Austrian Fate

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lohberger wrote biographies about Isabella Wendelin zu Kürnberger , Caroline Pichler about Prokesch-Osten and Emma von Lutterroth zu Tegetthoff .

Novels

• 1946: Alador (debut)
• 1946–1947: Pablo im Sonnenland (published in 1968 in abbreviated form under the title Inkagold )
• 1955: Station X
• 1956: Heart on the hammer

Dramas

• 1953: Queen Love (tragedy)
• 1953: Comedians (comedy)
• 1954: The Simultaneous of the Dream - An Interpretation of Its Interpretations
• 1957: Koresos and Kallirhoe (tragedy)
• 1961: Great moment in the Paradeis - a game about Johannes Kepler's Graz years
• 1963: Gabriel Reustl - Law and Revenge in the Peasants' War

Essays

• 1947: Ecce Austria (unprinted)
• 1947: Immigrants from Austria (unprinted)

Folklore works

• 1960: Fence (Hag) and house in their genealogical and morphological relationship to one another
• 1960: The igloo or the original planetary architecture

Texts for musical works

• Europa vocata (Opus 45) - oratorio by Hanns Holenia (partially premiered onDecember 7, 1957 in the Neues Kongresshaus in Salzburg and premiered on April 27, 1958 by the Styrian Tonkünstlerbund in Graz )
• 1965: Tyrolean Ballade (1813) - opera by Hanns Holenia (partially premiered on May 28, 1968 by the Graz City Orchestra and premiered on the radio on November 23, 1969)

Aphorisms and poems in other works

For example, aphorisms by Hans Lohberger can be found in the following works:

• Lothar Schmidt: The great handbook of winged definitions . Moderne-Verlag, Munich 1971
  • Quick-witted definitions. From superstition to cynicism . Rowohlt Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1974
  • Aphorisms from AZ. The great handbook of winged definitions . VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1971

Lohberger's poems are included in the following works, for example:

• Hans M. Loew: The Collection - Young Poetry from Austria . Ullstein-Verlag, Vienna 1947 ( anthology )
• Rudolf Henz, Alfred Weikert: poetry of the present . Stiasny, Graz-Vienna-Munich (1952 in the special volume and 1954 in the 54th volume)
• Hans Weigel: Voices of the Present . Albrecht Dürer-Verlag, Vienna 1954 (anthology)
• Carl Egmont Couple: Encrypted and Sealed . Weilburg-Verlag, Baden near Vienna 1968

literature

• Reinold Aigner: Hans Lohberger - Poet and Thinker: 1920–1979: A biography . Self-published by the author, Graz 1983

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Lohberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Lohberger Page
• Estate of the University of Graz