Hans Sterneder

Hans Sterneder (born February 7, 1889 in Eggendorf (Lower Austria) , † March 24, 1981 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Hans Sterneder was the illegitimate child of a landlord's son and a farmer's maid and initially lived in his grandmother's chaste . After the early death of his father, he was accepted into the estate of his wealthy grandfather, who enabled him to attend high school. After graduation , Sterneder went on a journey across Europe as a rolling brother from 1909 to 1911 . During this time he made the acquaintance of the philosopher Ernst Haeckel , the painter Hans Thoma and, on the recommendation of Peter Rosegger , the writer Richard Voss . From 1912 Sterneder completed the teachers' seminar in Vienna, financed by Richard Voss, and then taught as a teacher at a Styrian village school. His experiences as a teacher formed the basis of his debut novel The Peasant Student . While his early works are characterized by the author's strong closeness to nature and a cosmic-religious approach to life, from the novel The Miracle Apostle onwards, mystical and esoteric themes formed the focus in Sterneder's work. At the age of 35, Sterneder made the step from a writer to a visionary preacher.

Hans Sterneder lived as a freelance author in Gloggnitz in Lower Austria and later in Bregenz . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, no more works by Sterneder appeared until the end of the Third Reich; In 1944 the author was temporarily in custody. After 1945 he could no longer build on his literary successes of the twenties and thirties , and although an association of the friends of the poet Hans Sterneder had existed since 1963 , Sterneder was largely forgotten. From 1988 his works were reprinted by a German esoteric publishing house.

Hans Sterneder was a member of the Austrian PEN Club . In 1976 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art .

Works

• The farmer student , Leipzig 1921 - archive.org
• The sun brother , Leipzig 1922
• The miracle apostle , Leipzig 1924
• The two and their stars , Leipzig 1927
• Spring in the village , Leipzig 1928
• The song of the Eternal , Leipzig 1928
• Summer in the village , Leipzig 1930
• The new birth of marriage , Leipzig 1931
• The strange path of Klaus Einsiedel , Leipzig 1933
• The noble need , Leipzig 1938
• The key to the zodiac secret and human life , Munich 1956
• The great metamorphosis , Munich 1958
• The cosmic worldview , Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1963
• So speaks the Cheops pyramid , Freiburg i. Br. 1968

literature

• Fritz Arno Weisse: Hans Sterneder. His life and his work . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1941, OBV .
• Helene Fail: Hans Sterneder's religious poems . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1942, OBV .
• Sterneder, Hans. In: Tagblattarchiv. (Press reviews). Eight sheets. Sn, sl 1921/81, OBV .
• Thomas Eich: Hans Sterneder - poet and mystic. Life and work of an extraordinary writer . Second edition. Eich, Werlenbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-940964-15-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Sterneder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publishing pages about Hans Sterneder (with text examples)
• Article about Hans Sterneder in AstroWiki
• Directory of Sterneder's estate in the Vorarlberg State Library in Bregenz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} René Freund : Hans Sterneder. The farmer as a visionary . In: wienerzeitung.at , January 31, 2014, accessed on February 16, 2014.
2. ↑ Hans Sterneder - 80 years . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 7, 1969, p. 12 , bottom right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).