Heinrich Micko

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Heinrich Jakob Micko (born December 6, 1899 in Heuraffl , † January 28, 1969 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and local poet .

Life

Heinrich Micko was born in 1899 as the son of the teacher Jakob Micko . He attended high school in Budweis from 1911 to 1918 . During the First World War he served as a soldier in Galicia and Tyrol. He fell into Italian captivity and lived in Vienna from 1920 to 1928, where he studied German and history . As a student he was a member of the "German Academic Community", later the Aggstein guild . Micko was in 1929 in philosophy about the dialect to Dr. phil. PhD . During his studies he worked as a banker and freelance writer to earn a living. In addition, he was involved in student groups who were active in the youth. In 1930 he worked for the German Dictionary (DWB) in Berlin. He was also an employee of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and worked as an author for the home magazines Deutsche Heimat , Waldbrunnen , Waldheimat and Wäldlerkalender . In 1937 he was the editor of Adalbert Stifter's poems in Prague. After the Second World War he lived in Vienna again. The writer Karl Franz Leppa said about him:

“In Heuraffel next Friedberg the life of a doubly gifted woodsman begins, who on the one hand became a writer and poet, on the other hand a researcher, scholar and on top of that an art critic. In the field of German dialect poetry Micko, the son of a teacher, plowed a golden furrow. "

Heinrich Micko was buried at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof in Vienna. His son Stefan Micko (1932–2011) was the founder of the magazine Deutsche Sprachwelt and from 1987–2000 chairman of the language association mother tongue .

Works

  • The dialect of Wadetstift in the Bohemian Forest . 2 volumes, Institute for Sudeten German Homeland Research, Reichenberg 1924/30.
  • The field . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Augsburg 1926. (collection of poems)
  • Adalbert Stifter's earliest poems. For the first time . Society of German Book Friends in Bohemia, Prague 1937. (as editor)
  • Wuldaland. Chants in the Bohemian Forest dialect . Bergland Verlag, Vienna 1959.

Awards

literature

  • Sepp Skalitzky : Heinrich Micko - writer, poet and scholar . In: Sudetendeutscher Kulturalmanach IV, Munich 1962, p. 99 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Heinrich Micko , accessed on January 2, 2017 (Czech)
  2. ↑ Andrea Hohmeyer, "Böhmischen Volkes Weisen": the presentation of German-language poetry in the Bohemian countries from 1895 to 1945: Problems and perspectives of territorial literary historiography in Central Europe , LIT Verlag 2002, p. 364
  3. ^ Heinrich Micko at the Association of Bohemian Forests in Upper Austria
  4. ↑ Micko, Heinrich: Wuldaland. Chants in the Bohemian Forest dialect (rec.). In: Wiener Zeitung , May 3, 1960.
  5. ↑ Everything at a glance . In: Passauer Neue Presse , June 14, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Micko, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Micko, Heinrich Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and local poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Heuraffl
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1969
Place of death Vienna