Josef Luitpold Stern

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Josef Luitpold Stern (born April 18, 1886 in Vienna ; † September 13, 1966 there ), pseudonym Josef Luitpold , was an Austrian poet and educational functionary of the labor movement .

Life

Grave site at Grinzinger Friedhof, designed by Mario Petrucci
Memorial plaque in Weinberg Castle in Kefermarkt

Stern came from an assimilated Jewish family and grew up in the social democratic milieu of Vienna. His father Moriz Stern († 1901; age: 56) was the administrator of the Arbeiter-Zeitung , and Josef was already an active member of relevant organizations as a student. Stern attended the Piarist High School and then studied law in Vienna and Heidelberg. After completing his studies, Stern worked from 1909 as editor of the magazine Der Kunstwart in Dresden, later Robert Danneberg made him head of the library department in the social democratic education center in Vienna. Stern also worked in the Arbeiter-Zeitung, was editor of “Strom” and head of the “Volksbühne”. As a soldier in World War I, Stern wrote anti-war poems.

After 1918 he became head of the social democratic education center, was a co-founder of the Gutenberg book guild and acted as the “house poet” of the social democracy. He wrote numerous poems that were recited at festive events. In early 1933 he was one of the founders of the Association of Socialist Writers . After the failure of the February uprising , Stern fled to Czechoslovakia in April 1934, then via France (where he was interned) and Spain to the USA. There he worked as a teacher and carer in a slum in Philadelphia .

After the Second World War, Stern worked in the education system of the Austrian trade unions. Josef Luitpold Stern was buried in an honorary grave at the Grinzing cemetery . The OGB donated in his memory the Josef-Luitpold-Star Award, which is awarded to individuals or institutions since 1968, which is an exceptional contribution to public education, workers' education or have acquired the workers seal.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Viennese public education system . Diederichs, Jena 1910
  • Social ballads . Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Brand, Vienna 1911. - Full text online .
  • - (Ed.), Alfons Petzold , George Karau (Ill.): Johanna - a book of the transfiguration . Anzengruber-Verlag Suschitzky, Vienna 1915. - Full text online .
  • Heart in iron. From the diary of a country storm man . Dietz, Stuttgart 1917.
  • Foreword in: Ebbo Kroupa: Social Art. The program of the Association for Folk Music Care in Vienna. Lecture given at the founding general meeting on May 18, 1919 . Publishing house of the Association for Folk Music Care, Vienna 1919.
  • - (Ed. On behalf of the Central Union Commission): The works council. Teaching aids for business training. Reichenberg Trade Union School November 1920 . Sl 1920, OBV .
  • Class struggle and mass training . (Speeches given at the party conference in Aussig in December 1923). 3. changed and extended Edition. Central Office for Education of the German Social Democratic Labor Party, Prague 1924, OBV .
  • -, Otto Rudolf Schatz (Ill.): The uprooted tree . Gutenberg Book Guild, Berlin 1926.
  • -, Otto Rudolf Schatz (Ill.): The new city. This psalm was written by Josef Luitpold, cut in wood by OR Schatz in the years 1926–1927, and printed from a stick by the book printing workshop in Berlin . Gutenberg Book Guild, Berlin 1927.
  • The return of Prometheus . (Poetry). Buchmeisterverlag, Berlin 1927.
  • Heracles among the workers. Speech at the opening of the week of fighting against alcohol, given on October 30, 1932 in the Margareten Volksbildungshaus in Vienna . Verlag der Buchhandlung des Arbeiter-Abstinenten-Bund, Vienna 1932, OBV .
  • Heart in iron. The big warning . Self-published, Brno 1937.
  • The Josef Luitpold Book. Poetry and prose from four decades . Selected from the collected works and designed by Alfred Zohner . Woodcuts by Otto Rudolf Schatz. Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1948, OBV .
  • The constellation. Poem of a life. Collected works in 5 volumes . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1963–1965, OBV .
  1. Glitters, Pleiades. From eternity in everyday life . 1963
  2. The big warning. About the hunt for humanity . 1964
  3. Genius of the steadfast heart. World history is a ballad . 1964
  4. Incantations. To humanize people . 1965
  5. Reverb and echo. From the busy life . 1965

literature

  • Association of booksellers and librarians. Reminder sheet for Josef Luitpold Stern on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the deserving pioneer of workers' education in the First Republic . Socialist Education Center, Vienna 1946. 2 sheets.
  • Sabine Juhart: The "Wandering Star" and its way to America. The life and work of Josef Luitpold Stern in the context of the United States . In Engl. Language. Dipl.-Arb., University of Graz 2003. Summary in German
  • Lorenz Mikoletzky:  Luitpold, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 507 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Christian Stifter (Ed.): Josef Luitpold Stern , 1994.
  • Alfred Zohner (Ed.): Freedom rises from a dark night. Meeting a poet , 1961.
  • Stern, Josef Luitpold. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 495-514.
  • Jürgen Doll: Proletarian counterculture. Stern's attempt to justify the concept of a proletarian class culture on a social democratic basis in red tears. The destruction of working-class culture by fascism and national socialism. Results of the international conference of the same name in memoriam Herbert Exenberger , 14. – 15. November 2014 . Series: Zwischenwelt, 14. Theodor Kramer Society , Vienna and Drava Verlag , Klagenfurt 2017. ISBN 9783854358329 , pp. 28–43

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notes

  1. ↑ as well as in other articles of the volume, see list of persons at the end
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Josef Luitpold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luitpold, Josef (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1966
Place of death Vienna