Hugo Greinz

Hugo Greinz (born June 3, 1873 in Innsbruck ; † January 24, 1946 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian narrator , columnist , newspaper editor and translator of Danish and Norwegian novels.

Life and writing

Born as the son of the building supervisor Anton Greinz and Agnes Theresia Jennewein in Innsbruck. His brothers Rudolf (1866–1942) and Hermann Greinz (1879–1938) were also active as authors.

Greinz studied law in Vienna , Graz and Innsbruck and entered civil service in 1897. Because of his work on German national papers, he had to leave his position in 1899 and became editor of the Monday Post in Linz. In 1901 he moved to Innsbruck and took the position of editor at the Tiroler Tagblatt . In 1902 he got involved with Die Zeit in Vienna . In 1915 he was called up for military service, where he worked as editor of the Belgrade News . In 1919, after half a year at the Salzburger Volksblatt , Greinz went to the editorial office of the Wiener Volkszeitung , where he worked until his retirement.

In 1898 Greinz was one of the founders of the Pan literature and art society in Linz, and in 1899 he and Heinrich von Schullern published the Musenalmanach Jung-Tirol . As editor of the literary monthly Der Kyffhäuser in Linz (1899–1902) he was the first to announce the program for Austrian provincial literature. Greinz spent his retirement in Salzburg.

Works

editor

• Hermann von Gilm : Poems , 1902
• Rudolf Stürzer : Look folks, that's how it was. Viennese stories , 1941
• Rudolf Stürzer: The Lamplgasse , 1947

Literary historical work

• Detlev von Liliencron , a literary historical appraisal , Berlin 1896
• Hermann von Gilm , 1897
• Adolf Pichler , Greetings to Tyrol , 1898

Translation work

• Henrik Ibsen : Catiline , 1896
• Ivan Bjarne : House of Joy , 1923
• Anders Eje : Miss Fob , 1924

Books

• Young Tyrol. A modern muse almanac from the Tyrolean mountains , published by Hugo Greinz, Heinrich von Schullern , Leipzig 1898
• Kisses and other short stories , Linz / Leipzig 1900
• The Unweds (novellas), Berlin 1914
• Tirol Anno Neun , Vienna / Leipzig 1940

literature

• German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Lim. by Wilhelm Kosch. Edited by Konrad Feilchenfeldt. 2008 (Vol. 12), pp. 346-347
• History of literature in Austria. Vol. 7: The 20th Century. Edited by Herbert Zeman . Graz: Akad. Dr.- u. Verl.-Anst. 1999, p. 44
• Tyrolean news. Jg./Nr. 25, January 30, 1946, p. 3
• Small Austrian Literature Lexicon. Eds. H. Giebisch, L. Pichler, K. Vancsa. Vienna: Hollinek 1948 (Österreichische Heimat 8), p. 133
• Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (PDF; 193 kB). Ed. Österr. Academy of Science; Leo Santifaller. II. Volume. Graz, Cologne: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf. 1959, p. 56
• Bio-bibliographical literature dictionary of Austria. Edited by Hans Giebisch, Gustav Gugitz. Vienna: Hollinek 1964, p. 120
• Christian Schwaighofer: Young Tyrol. In: Messages from the Brenner archive. 3, 1984

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Greinz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hugo Greinz in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library
• Estate of the Greinz family (Hermann, Hugo, Richard, Rudolf)
• Hugo Greinz in AEIOU-Austria Lexicon