Herbert Hinterleithner

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Herbert Hinterleithner (born November 25, 1916 in Vienna , † December 12, 1942 in a field hospital near Athens ) was a poet from the group of the Catholic youth movement Bund Neuland .

Life

Herbert Hinterleithner was born in Vienna as the youngest of four children. The parents were Josef Hinterleithner, director of the Theresian Academy (Theresianum) in Vienna and professor at the Vienna Consular Academy and Emilie Hinterleithner, née Estermann. He graduated from the Theresianum in 1934 and enrolled in German studies, history and philosophy at the University of Vienna. In December 1940 he received his doctorate there with a thesis on the show and work of the poet Otto Wirz . His academic teachers included Josef Nadler , Richard von Kralik and Heinrich von Srbik . As a schoolboy he found new territory at the Bund , where he held leading positions. He started poetry just as early, influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke and Anton Wildgans , among others . He belonged to the New Land Guild of Artists. A close friendship connected him for a time with Josef Weinheber until he turned to the Nazi regime. He later got into painting, especially through his close friendship with the Graz painter Rudolf Szyszkowitz , also from the Neuland Bund, with whom he also worked intensively in the field of amateur play.

A critical mentor of his lyrical work was Ludwig Hänsel , friend and correspondent of Ludwig Wittgenstein , who recognized Hinterleithner's impetuous youthful talent and tried to steer it:

... Everything rhymes all too easily for you - according to your mood (sometimes the rhyme also carries you away, the narrow (right) rhyme; out of the big curve ...)

Hinterleithner subsequently found his own language, which combined strict form ( terzinen ) with intensive experience of tradition, especially antiquity, and his own religious and personal experience.

Ludwig Hänsel in a letter to Hinterleithner: That does not change the correctness of your sentence: "It is dangerous to be a Christian, because only as such you can participate in the great and melancholy temptations of the devil ... Because your sentence is only right as Counterpart to the other sentence that only the Christian is truly redeemed from the devil.

He came to Wiener Rundfunk through Werner Riemerschmid . In the tradition of the youth movement, "journeys" took him across Europe and on to Egypt. From 1940 he had to serve as an interpreter for French in an officers' camp , Oflag XVII A in Edelbach (Lower Austrian Waldviertel ). After another interpreting test for Italian and promotion to Sonderführer Z (in the rank of lieutenant), he was transferred to Athens to the Luftgau Command . Here he frequented the circle of writers and artists such as Erhart Kästner , Klaus Vrieslander and Herbert List and diplomats, many of whom had been his father's pupils in Vienna. In December 1942 he fell ill with menigoencephalitis, to which he succumbed in a few days on December 12th. He was buried in the Neo Kokkinia cemetery, halfway from Athens to Eleusis .

Together with the news of his death, his mother received a letter from Katharina Kippenberg in which she welcomed him as the new author of Insel Verlag . Due to the war, publication was no longer possible; it was only possible in 1947 with the narrow volume Südliche Terzinen . The majority of his work is only in the estate (with Heinrich Kolbabek).

Works

prose

  • Night on the Great Pyramid of Cheops , 1939, with radio broadcast
  • Novella , December 1942

In the estate

Largely unpublished poetry cycles:

  • spring
  • Abend , 1934, single poem, set to music by Erhard Schindler in 1934
  • Dark mirror, 1940
  • Distraction
  • The dreams all
  • summer
  • Summer stream, 1939
  • autumn
  • winter
  • Vienna (dialect poems)

literature

  • Friedrich Heer : Austrian Credo . The furrow , December 25, 1947
  • Otto Mauer : Herbert Hinterleithner . Word and Truth: 572/3, 1947
  • Adalbert Schmidt: poet and poetry of Austria in the 19th u. 20th century . Verlag Das Bergland Buch Salzburg, 287-289.1964
  • Kurt Adel : Herbert Hinterleithner . Austria in History and Literature Issue 4/1968
  • Georg Szyszkowitz: The other Rudolf Szyszkowitz . manu media publisher schnider. Graz 2002
  • Heinrich Kolbabek: A later brother of Hölderlin - the poet Herbert Hinterleithner. The literary wren No. 3/2006

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personal data
SURNAME Hinterleithner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet from the group of the Catholic youth movement Bund Neuland
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1942
Place of death near Athens