Hans Winterl

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Hans Winterl (born November 21, 1900 in Vienna ; † January 16, 1970 ibid) was an Austrian working-class poet and writer .

Life

Hans Winterl was the illegitimate child of a Viennese seamstress and grew up with his grandmother on the outskirts. He was later sent to relatives in Mürzzuschlag . As a teenager he returned to Vienna to learn the profession of blacksmith , which he practiced until he was 24 years old. In addition, he was interested in music and literature, learned to play the piano and organ and to compose. He studied music and art history in evening classes at the adult education center . He also completed a course for cooperative officials, became a choirmaster, worked as a bank clerk and accountant. In his early 20s he started writing poetry, short stories and dramas.

In 1924 he received the Alfons Petzold Prize for the poem Ein bronze song . He received an anti-war prize donated by Rudolf Geist and an art prize from the Viennese civil society association Readiness , in whose magazine he also published. In 1933 he was a member of the Association of Socialist Writers .

During the war he was a soldier in the German Wehrmacht . After 1945 was a freelance writer, member of the Austrian Writers' Association , the Austrian League for Human Rights . In 1958 he belonged to the Kalasantiner working- poet circle . In 1961 he received the prize of the Vienna Art Fund of the Central Savings Bank of the City of Vienna .

In the last years of his life, Hans Winterl lived withdrawn from the public. Herbert Exenberger was his administrator, which is why a number of documents, mainly correspondence, can be found in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society .

Hans Winterl was married twice. His first wife Ilona Winterl died in 1959. His second wife was Erna Winterl.

plant

  • Ten poems about piano works by Karl Herrmann , Vienna 1923
  • Spring tide. Sketch book of a worker , Heilbronn 1926
  • Dance of death. Variations on an old theme , Vienna 1930
  • The cry for the clod. Poems , Vienna 1932
  • Daniel Rabbit. Stories and sketches , Vienna 1935 and 1948 (?)
  • The reservoir. Roman , Vienna 1947
  • Detour via Hellas. The adventurous vacation trip of an honest man , Vienna 1949
  • The reservoir. Roman , Vienna / Stuttgart 1953
  • This kiss for the whole world. Beethoven Essay , Fürstenfeldbruck 1955.
  • The grave speaks , Vienna 1955

Awards

  • 1924 Alfons Petzold Prize
  • Anti-War Prize
  • Art Prize of the Viennese Readiness
  • 1961 Prize from the Vienna Art Fund of the Central Savings Bank of the Municipality of Vienna

literature

  • Adolf Schärf (Ed.): Zeitbilder. Socialist Contributions to Contemporary Poetry. Third episode , Vienna 1955/56
  • Hans Giebisch, Gustav Gugitz: Bio-bibliographical literature dictionary of Austria , Vienna 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Winterl, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian worker poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1970
Place of death Vienna