Josef Leitgeb
Josef Leitgeb (born August 17, 1897 in Bischofshofen , Salzburg , † April 9, 1952 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian writer .
Life
Josef Leitgeb was the son of a railway official . He spent his youth in Innsbruck , where he developed the high school attended and 1915 the war Matura took off. Then he took part in the First World War as a member of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger on the Austro-Hungarian side . After the end of the war , he initially studied German at the University of Innsbruck , but then switched to law . In 1921, parallel to his studies , he completed an apprenticeship as an elementary school teacher and from 1922 worked as a teacher in Tyrolean village schools . In 1925 he received his doctorate in law and married Grete geb. Knight (1903-2002). In the twenties he belonged to the circle of poets around Ludwig von Ficker and his magazine “ Der Brenner ”. From 1929 to 1939 Leitgeb was a secondary school teacher in Innsbruck. He took part in the Second World War as a captain in the Wehrmacht , mainly in the Ukraine . After the end of the Second World War he was given the post of city school inspector in Innsbruck.
Josef Leitgeb's work consists mainly of poems . His natural poetry is strongly oriented towards traditional forms and influenced by Leitgeb's great role model Georg Trakl . Leitgeb also wrote two novels and two autobiographical books: “The Unharmed Year” is about a rural childhood before the First World War , “On the Edge of War” is about Leitgeb's stay in Ukraine . Josef Leitgeb, who also translated from French , received the Great Austrian State Prize for Literature in 1950 . He is buried in the Innsbruck-Mühlau cemetery.
Works
- Poems , Innsbruck 1922
- Children's legend , Berlin 1934
- Music of the Landscape , Berlin 1935
- Homecoming (Christian and Brigitte) , Berlin 1936
- Purifications , Salzburg [u. a.] 1938
- Tyrol and Vorarlberg , Berlin 1939
- Letter about the south , Mainz 1941
- On the brink of war , Berlin 1942
- Drink, o eyes , Vienna 1942
- Vita somnium breve , Munich 1943
- Of flowers, trees and music , Salzburg 1947
- The unharmed year , Salzburg 1948
- Small stories , Graz [u. a.] 1951
- Signs of life , Salzburg 1951
- Complete poems , Salzburg 1953
- Farewell and distant picture , Salzburg 1959
- Before night falls , Graz [u. a.] 1961
Translations
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : Letter to an extradited person , Boppard a. Rh. 1948
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince , Bad Salzig 1950 (translated together with Grete Leitgeb)
literature
- Rudolf Radler: Leitgeb, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 168 ( digitized version ).
- Helmut Schinagl: The landscape experience with Josef Leitgeb , Innsbruck 1954
- Helmut Schink: The image of man in the works of Josef Leitgeb , Salzburg 1970
- Josef Wolf: Josef Leitgeb , Freiburg, Switzerland 1966
Web links
- Entry on Josef Leitgeb in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Josef Leitgeb - Sources, texts, works, translations, media on Wikilivres (also known as Bibliowiki )
- Estate in the Brenner archive of the University of Innsbruck
- Entry in the Lexicon of Literature in Tyrol
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baptismal Register - TFBVIII | Bischofshofen | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Leitgeb, Josef |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bischofshofen , Salzburg |
DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1952 |
Place of death | innsbruck |