Irmgard Wurmbrand

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Irmgard Wurmbrand (born September 23, 1906 in Graz ; † June 9, 1988 in Eisbach -Enzenbach) was an Austrian writer and screenwriter who also published under the pseudonym Noretta . She mainly wrote entertainment novels that take place in the farming and mountain world of Styria .

Life

Wurmbrand was the daughter of an officer. She attended the elementary and community school in Graz, where she was born, and after completing an advanced training course in 1927, she worked in the “District Poultry Breeding Institute for Lower Franconia” in Kitzingen . There she passed the state examination for poultry breeding and from 1928 to 1934 she ran her own agricultural poultry farm in the area around Graz. With the beginning of her writing career she gave up working as a farmer.

In 1935 Wurmbrand moved to Schladming , at the same time she had a second residence in Munich around 1937/1938 . The latter made it possible for her to become a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer in 1938 . She did not belong to the NSDAP , according to a letter of recommendation to the RSK, the reason for this was her father's pension, which she did not want to endanger, but she had a " National Socialist attitude".

Wurmbrand worked as a freelance writer from 1934. She published in newspapers such as the Grazer Tagespost , Salzburger Volksblatt and Völkischer Beobachter . Inspired by the area around Schladming, she wrote various mountain and peasant novels that were popular in Germany at the time and that appeared in relatively large numbers. Her novel Weather Lights about Barbara , published in 1940 by the Salzburg publishing house “Das Bergland-Buch”, was filmed the following year. The film of the same name by Werner Klingler - which propagates the “Anschluss” of Austria - is now considered a preliminary stage to propaganda. Wurmbrand was a successful writer at the time and was included on the list of artists particularly supported in Reichsgau Styria . Nevertheless, the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda did not release her from the labor service as requested.

After the Second World War, Wurmbrand's novel Weather Lights around Barbara was put on the list of literature to be discarded . Other of her works, on the other hand, were reissued - some decades later. The novel Tauerngold was filmed in 1953 under the title Your heart is my home .

In 1949, Wurmbrand bought the "Seewaldhof" in Purgstall near Graz, where she worked as a farmer and stayed until she was old. She continued to work as a writer and screenwriter, so she provided the template for the film Forget When You Can (1956) by Hans H. König .

Works

  • The last glow: a novel from the mountains. The Bergland Book, Salzburg 1936.
  • Kilian and the farm: a mountain farmer's novel from Upper Styria. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1938.
  • The unwanted. The Bergland Book, Salzburg 1939.
  • Weather lights around Barbara: a novel from Styria. The Bergland Book, Salzburg 1940.
  • Tauern gold. The Bergland Book, Salzburg 1941.
  • Glittering drops: short stories. Cross-section publishing house, Graz 1947.
  • A long way. Cross-section publishing house, Graz 1947.
  • Elmsfeuer. Dachstein Publishing Company, Graz 1949.
  • The Burgsteinerin: A novel from Upper Styria. Friedensverlag, Salzburg 1949.
  • The island of the guilty: 3 women's fates. Friedensverlag, Salzburg 1951.
  • Lava: novel of a passion. Friedensverlag, Salzburg 1952.
  • The golden heart: novel from the mountains. AWA-Verlag, Munich 1959.
  • Then remorse doesn't help anymore. AWA-Verlag, Munich 1959.
  • The eternal fountain. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1969.
  • The Nutjaw's cry. Rosenheim publishing house, Rosenheim 1970.
  • The betrayed Berghof. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1972.
  • The gem. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1972.
  • The forgotten mountain. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1977.

literature

  • Hans Giebisch : Wurmbrand, Irmgard. In: Small Austrian Literature Lexicon. (Austrian homeland, 8) Hollinek, Vienna 1948.
  • Wurmbrand, Irmgard. In: Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Handbook: Austrian Literature 1938–1945. Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 1: Styria. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77809-7 , pp. 348-349.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irmgard Wurmbrand in Estates in Austria - Personal Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Wurmbrand, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noretta (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1988
Place of death Eisbach- Enzenbach