Hubert Mumelter
Hubert Mumelter (born August 26, 1896 in Bozen , Austria-Hungary , † September 24, 1981 there ) was a South Tyrolean poet and painter .
Life
Hubert Mumelter came from a Bozen merchant family. He attended the Stella Matutina high school in Feldkirch until the outbreak of the First World War . After graduating from high school , he served three years at the front in the Dolomites and finally on the Ortler . In his poems the shock over the fall of Austria-Hungary and the division of Tyrol is expressed again and again .
After the war he studied law at the University of Innsbruck . 1921 doctorate he became Dr. iuris and then became a trainee lawyer in the Bozen office of his uncle Ernst von Tschurtschenthaler. In 1924 he ended his legal career and became a ski instructor so that he could work as a freelance writer in the summer . He wrote and lived in the “Waldfried” villa near the Völser Weiher . In 1936 he bought a house in St. Konstantin near Völs , which became his permanent home.
In 1931 his Oswald von Wolkenstein novel “Zwei ohne Gnade” was published by Insel Verlag . In 1933 he published his famous “Ski Guide”, which he himself provided with caricatures. In 1934 his novel “The Wrong Road” was published, followed in 1940 by “Shadows in the Snow” and “Quietly Falling Snow”, and in 1941 the National Socialist -minded booklet “The Reich in the Heart. Stories "(published by NS-Gauverlag and printing works Innsbruck, 2nd edition 1944), 1948" Maderneid ". In addition, Mumelter wrote many poems (two collections in 1933 and 1952).
The Second World War tore him out of his previous life. In autumn 1943 he was drafted into the South Tyrolean security service and in 1944 he joined the Standschützen . During the Nazi occupation of South Tyrol , Mumelter wrote repeatedly for the semi-official Bozner Tagblatt .
In 1945 Mumelter married. His wife came from the Bozen merchant family Jank-Rubatscher.
In 1951 the Bolzano weekly newspaper “Die Alpenpost” was founded, which was in deliberate opposition to the South Tyrolean People's Party and was financed by the Italian government. Hubert Mumelter became editor of the paper and propagated his idea of the trilingual Tyrol in it. This "Rhaetian Dream", which he called this, meant a rejection of a purely German-speaking South Tyrol, which he was resented by many. Only a small circle of friends remained loyal to him. When the newspaper no longer received government funding from Rome at the end of 1957, it had to cease publication. This also ended Mumelter's journalistic activities.
Since the option time , Mumelter had also started to paint, mainly watercolors of home landscapes .
Hubert Mumelter died in 1981 at the age of 85 and was buried in the cemetery of his adopted home Völs.
Awards
- Walther von der Vogelweide Prize (1964)
- Honorary citizen of Völs am Schlern (1976)
- Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol (1979)
literature
- Günter Regensberger (Ed.): Confession to the Schlern. Festschrift for Hubert Mumelter . VA Athesia, Bolzano 1971.
- Oswald Sailer: Legacy of a Poet. On the first anniversary of the death of Hubert Mumelter (September 24, 1982) . In: The Sciliar . Vol. 56 (1982), pp. 531-538, ISSN 0036-6145 .
- Eduard Widmoser: South Tyrol A – Z. Volume 3: Kr-N . Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1988, ISBN 3-87803-007-1 , p. 368.
- Bruno Mahlknecht : Hubert Mumelter. The painter and poet from Bolzano . In: South Tyrol in words and pictures. Vol. 50 (2006), No. 4, pp. 23-26.
- Harald Wieser: The literary contributions of the "Alpenpost" (1951–1957): Hubert Mumelter as a journalist. Innsbruck, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contains: The Great Call (= The Call of the Empire); The last contingent; Ladin legend; Solstice; The great sacrifice.
- ↑ As an example: HM: Oswald von Wolkenstein, the last Minnesinger . Edition of May 13, 1944, p. 3 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hubert Mumelter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catalog of works in the Lexicon of Literature in Tyrol
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mumelter, Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet and painter (South Tyrol) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bolzano |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1981 |
| Place of death | Bolzano |