Hans von Hoffensthal

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Max von Esterle : Hans von Hoffensthal, caricature, in: Der Brenner 1911

Hans von Hoffensthal (born August 16, 1877 in Oberbozen , Austria-Hungary ; died December 7, 1914 in Bozen , actually Johann Nepomuk Anton Josef Maria von Hepperger zu Tirschtenberg and Hoffensthal ) was the pseudonym of an Austrian writer and doctor from the Bolzano bourgeoisie. Hoffensthal has written a work of seven novels, three short stories and a large number of feature pages and in 1948 the Austrian literary encyclopedia was still regarded as an author of "valuable landscape novels full of sensual passion and ardent love for the South Tyrolean homeland".

Life

Hoffensthal was born in the Magdalena house of his grandparents Zallinger one day after the Assumption of Mary in the Oberbozener district Maria Himmelfahrt. Tradition obliged his parents from the Bolzano bourgeoisie to stay in the Frisch on the Ritten , where people socialized with their own kind and married among themselves. The father Anton von Hepperger was a judge in various cities in Tyrol. Johann von Hepperger studied medicine in Innsbruck and received his doctorate there in 1902. In his military service obligations he was not motivated and was " not suitable for the charge because of his indifference in the service" , he also attributes a similar lack of orientation in his studies and in choosing a career (autobiographically) to his protagonists, plus "class arrogance, bohemian carelessness and Sloppiness ". After three years of medical activity in Vienna , he opened a practice as a “ nerve specialist ” in Bolzano in 1905 under his real name Hanns von Hepperger .

Birthplace in the Assumption of Mary
Tourism climbs the mountains: in 1907 the rack railway from Bozen to Oberbozen was opened

In his novels there were little veiled, strongly autobiographical features and references to his social environment in Bozen (the city ) and Oberbozen ( nature ).

Hoffensthal was a chronicler of social changes, but he did not experience the actual political collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the dramatic changes in Tyrol after 1919. Such was his time for him also a time of "departure from Oberbozen" than the aristocratic "Botzner" traders their splendid isolation on the Renon against the tourist train time tasks which they themselves with cog railway -Aktiengesellschaften and Hotelbau- public companies in 1907 now also led the Renon with the Renon Railway . He countered the destruction of nature with a hymnically exaggerated description of the natural landscape of the Bozener Land. Hoffensthal seemed more modern in his subject matter when he addressed the male double standard and , using the example of Lori Graff, who suffered from the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, breaks the natural idyll, even if the taboo word is only circumscribed with regard to the reader market, the doctor explains Her husband's diagnosis : "A disease - I'll spare you the name that you know yourself" , this hint at the turn of the century already ensured that the book was kept away from the reading-hungry higher daughters . The book received a review by Alois Brandl in the literary echo . The National Socialists put the book on the list of harmful and undesirable literature in 1938 .

Based on the magazine articles he published, for example in Simplicissimus , in the magazine Jugend or in the Vossische Zeitung , and the multiple published novels that were published by Ullstein and Egon Fleischel and later by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (and even after his Tod had editions) and with the success of which at least the publishers could be satisfied, it was noticed by a few literary contemporaries and perceived up close, so Friderike Winternitz reported to Stefan Zweig in January 1913 about her stay on the Ritten, or he got into Quarrel with them, for example with Ludwig von Ficker in the literary-expressionist magazine Der Brenner . He was friends with Albert von Trentini from Bolzano .

In 1911 he fell ill with tuberculosis , he closed the doctor's practice and went on a multi-year voyage by ship to Japan, but returned from India exhausted after only one year and died in 1914. - The middle school in the Renon capital Klobenstein is after Hans von Hoffensthal named.

Works

Assumption of Mary , 1905
  • Assumption of Mary , Berlin 1905
  • Helene Laasen , Berlin 1906
  • The book from Jäger Mart , Berlin 1908
  • Lori Graff , Berlin 1909
  • Hildegard Ruh's house , Berlin 1910
  • The third light , Berlin 1911
  • Marion Flora , Berlin 1914
  • Moj , Berlin 1915
  • The heart in the forest , Berlin 1916
  • Farewell to Oberbozen , Bolzano: private print Amonn, 1930
    • Farewell to Oberbozen . Foreword by Josef Rampold . Photos by Oswald Kofler. Bolzano: Athesia, 2002

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quoted from: Der Alpen-Dandy
  2. ↑ after Unterhofer, 1996, p. 13
  3. ↑ Unterhofer, 1996, p. 15
  4. ↑ Unterhofer, 1996, p. 21
  5. ↑ Lori Graff , after Unterhofer, 1996, p. 87
  6. ↑ Alois Brandl: Lori Graff . In: The literary echo . Jg./Nr. 21-22, August 1, 1909, pp. 1573-1575
  7. ^ List of harmful and undesirable literature , as of December 31, 1938. Page 60. Leipzig, 1938.
  8. ↑ Unterhofer, 1996, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Hoffensthal, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hepperger, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberbozen
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1914
Place of death Bolzano