Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn

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Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn (born June 5, 1887 in Vienna, † April 10, 1945 in Klosterneuburg ) was an Austrian publicist , writer and satirist .

He was best known as the editor of the magazine Das Nebelhorn .

Life

Müller-Guttenbrunn was born in Vienna as the son of the German national writer and theater director Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn , the captain's daughter Adele Müller-Guttenbrunn and brother of the writer Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn .

After three years he was enrolled in the fourth grade of the public elementary school of the municipality of Vienna in the Gemeindegasse (Canisiusgasse) in 1896. After disastrous grades, in 1902 he moved to the Gymnasium Studentenkonvikt Freistadt in Upper Austria, where he repeated the fifth grade. With acceptable grades, Müller-Guttenbrunn convinced his father to return to school in Vienna in 1904, where he again received poor grades. In 1906 Müller-Guttenbrunn began studying law at the University of Vienna . His writing began in the same year under the pseudonym "Herbert Luckhaup". During the high school graduation course at the Vienna Commercial Academy in 1908, he published his first short stories and essays .

After training as a lawyer, he began his one-year military service as a volunteer in 1911. In 1912 he began the final judicial year at the regional court for criminal matters in Vienna and then became secretary at the commercial court. In the summer of 1913 he ended his court year as clerk at the district court of Klosterneuburg. After taking up service at the municipal district office of Vienna II, Leopoldstadt , he was ordered to the Russian front in Galicia on August 28, 1914 , where he served until 1918. During a home vacation in the winter of 1915, he became engaged to Aenne Fritsche in Leipzig, whom he married in 1916. Their son Erhard Adam was born in 1917.

After moving to Aschach in Upper Austria in 1918, their daughter Eva was born one year later. Müller-Guttenbrunn lived as a vegetarian from 1920 for ethical reasons : "You can only be for him [vegetarianism], or you have to admit to being a weakling who cannot do what he thinks is right."

Müller-Guttenbrunn's greatest success as a playwright was the 1914 comedy Die Frauen von Utopia . From 1927 to 1934 he published the magazine Das Nebelhorn , which was based on the torch and whose publisher was also dedicated to Karl Kraus , but lagged far behind the model in terms of its distribution. In 1934 four more numbers of the satirical "Panopticum of the Machine Time" followed.

The publishing house "Das Nebelhorn" is located in Graz in 1927 at Volksgartenstrasse 12 and in April 1929 in Jakominigasse 38, at the same time the addresses of the printing works. The magazine of the same name appears almost regularly "on the 1st and 15th of every month" with 16 to 28 pages, stapled in the format 12 × 17 to 19 cm in letterpress, sometimes with woodcuts, on April 1st, 1929 by Johannes Wohlfahrt. On June 15, 1928, No. 36 Alf "Festschrift for the eighth century celebration of the city of Graz" appears with red decorative paint on the title page for 40 groschen. The magazine price is initially 60 groschen (50 groschen with subscription), April 1929 only 45. The double numbers 147-148 and 149-150 from around 1934 have the magazine format 17 × 20 cm, cost 90 groschen each and were produced on the company's own printing press in Klosterneuburg , Leopoldsgraben 4. The title page has at least 13 mm high text lines, the letters of which are made up exclusively of typewritten "m" s. The "M" of his name is shaped like an "m", 13 mm high and 14 mm wide and contains 17 very closely spaced "m" characters in a 5 × 5 pixel field. The use of wax matrices is obvious.

Müller-Guttenbrunn represented controversial individualist , anarchist , pacifist and vegetarian ideas, which he tried to implement as a self-sufficient provider with his organic and livestock farming. His experiments with the Asian field culture became known. He was convicted several times for his pamphlets against state and church and therefore served a prison sentence of several months. In the Nazi era, on the other hand, as a member of the well-known German national writers Adam and Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn, he had to struggle with relatively little repression.

In 1945 Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn was mistakenly shot by a Russian soldier in front of his house in Klosterneuburg.

Works

  • The way to inner freedom. A School of Will , Saturn-Verlag Vienna, 1936
  • Man and earth. The way to outer freedom , Saturn-Verlag Vienna, 1937
  • From behind the scenes. A look back at my life , autobiography to 1915, unpublished, 1944

literature

exhibition

From September 21 to December 21, 2019 (extended to January 31, 2020) the exhibition "Alphabet des anarchist amateurs" took place in the Kunstverein <rotor> , Graz, as part of the Styrian Autumn . Publications by Müller-Guttenbrunn, Alex. (Other) Stern, graphics by Johannes Wohlfahrt, and almost 100 works by over 50 contemporary artists were shown.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn: Alphabet of the anarchist amateurs , ed. Beatrix Müller-Kampel. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2007.
  2. ↑ ALPHABET OF THE ANARCHIST AMATEUR. <rotor> (center for contemporary art), accessed April 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Guttenbrunn, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist, writer and satirist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1945
Place of death Klosterneuburg