Heinrich Holek

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Heinrich Holek (born October 1, 1885 in Aussig , Bohemia , † September 4, 1934 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist and worker poet .

Life

Heinrich was the son of the unskilled worker Wenzel Holek , who was to become a successful writer from 1910, and a brickworker. Heinrich Holek also had to work in the brick factory as a child. After finishing school, he worked as an unskilled worker, groom, house servant and furniture maker.

At 17 he joined the youth glassworkers association in Aussig . He was active in the social democratic labor movement . From 1910 he wrote reports for social democratic daily newspapers, for example for the Dresdner Volkszeitung and the Berliner Vorwärts . In 1914 he was appointed editor of the Aussiger social democratic newspaper Volksrecht , which was banned in 1916 due to critical reporting. Heinrich Holek was arrested as an editor. After his release from prison, he moved to Vienna , where he wrote for trade union newspapers. He soon took over the editing of the trade journal of the transport workers' association Das Zeitrad and wrote for the Arbeiter-Zeitung .

In 1925 his book The Gray Film was published. Sketches and reports . Until February 1934 he was editor of the magazine of the Free Trade Union Association of Austrian Tramers . In 1933 he became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers . After February 1934 he was the editor of the illegal union newspapers of transport workers and railroad workers.

On September 4, 1934, Heinrich Holek died "suddenly", as the obituary in the Arbeiter-Zeitung of September 15, 1934 stated, where it was further reported: "Thousands of comrades took part in his cremation. The police had forbidden all speeches during the cremation . "

Works

  • From the way of the cross of life: short stories, sketches and Satires , Vienna 1924
  • The gray film: sketches a. Reporters , Vienna 1925
  • On the move: a self-biography , Vienna 1927

literature

  • Alfred Magaziner : Heinrich Holek - as a student in the brickworks. In: Pensioner und Pensionist, December 1983, 15 ( online )
  • Eckart Früh : Traces and Remnants. Bio-bibliographical sheets from the Tagblatt archive. Heinrich Holek, Lili Réthi, Alfred Grünewald, Alma Johanna Koenig, Lucian . Vienna 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Holek died . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung, September 15, 1934, page 7
personal data
SURNAME Holek, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist, working-class poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Aussig , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1934
Place of death Vienna , Austria