Josef Leitgeb

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal Register - TFBVIII | Bischofshofen | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
personal data
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