Josef Neumair

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Josef Neumair (born April 8, 1877 in Bruneck , † October 15, 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian teacher , writer , Germanist , literary critic , classical philologist and Graecist .

Life

Josef Neumair studied German and classical philology at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna , where he also lived from 1907. After graduating, he worked as a high school teacher in Mödling . He was a participant in the First World War , where he fought on the Balkan Peninsula . He processed his world war experiences in two novels. In addition, Neumair compiled several reading books for teacher training institutions in the course of his life , was a narrator, literary critic and author of educational writings. As a playwright he was known for his passion and Christmas plays .

In 1919 Naumair became chairman of the Tyrol Association in Vienna; an office he held until 1950. From 1933 until the 'Anschluss' in March 1938, at the time of Austrofascism , he was the President of the Austrian Federal Publishing House .

Furthermore, Neumair was a professor at the Vienna Teacher Training Institute, of which he was director for many years. He also worked as a lecturer at the Teachers Academy and the Pedagogical Institute of the City of Vienna . He was awarded the title of Hofrat .

Fonts

  • Neumair, Josef (1917). In the Serbian campaign in 1914. Experiences and moods of a Landsturm officer . Vol. 1. Ed. Österreichischer Volksschriftenverein. Innsbruck: Tyrolia.
  • Neumair, Josef (ed.) (1918). At the campfire. A collection of poems . Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich: Tyrolia.
  • Neumair, Josef (1919). In all corners of the Balkans. Experiences and moods of a Landsturm officer . Vol. 2. Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich: Tyrolia.
  • Neumair, Josef (1921). Silent Night Holy Night. An alpine Christmas game. Furnished and supplemented according to old and new Christmas games and Christmas carols . Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich / Bozen: Tyrolia.
  • Neumair, Josef (ed.) (1932). All good spirits ... Tyrolean ghost stories. Reissued after JA Heyls "Volkssagen aus Tirol" . Innsbruck: Tyrolia.
  • Neumair, Josef (1932). Passion play . Vienna: Augartenverlag.
  • Neumair, Josef (1942). Desanka between two fires . Leipzig: Widder-Verlag.
  • Neumair, Josef (1957). O Land of Tyrol. Edited with an afterword by Franz Xaver Hollnsteiner. Vienna: Austrian Federal Publishing House 1957.

Literature (selection)

  • In: List, Rudolf: Catholic poetry in Austria . Vienna: Österreichischer Büchereiverband 1934, p. 19.
  • In: Hutschenreiter, Ernst: Register of Austrian writers and writers . Vienna: Augartenverlag Stephan Szabo 1937, p. 96.
  • Weingartner, Josef: Josef Neumair on his 70th birthday . In: Dolomites . Jg./Nr. 123, 1947, p. 4.
  • In: Kleines Österreichisches Literaturlexiko n. Ed. H. Giebisch, L. Pichler, K. Vancsa. Vienna: Hollinek 1948 (Österreichische Heimat 8), p. 304f.
  • In: Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries . Edited by the Austria Institute. Edited by Robert Teichl. Vienna: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei 1951, p. 212.
  • Weingartner, Josef: "Hofrat Josef Neumair 75 years". [Appreciation]. In: Land Tirol . Jg./Nr. 7, 1952, p. 6.
  • Weingartner, Josef: "Josef Neumair". In: Schöpferisches Tirol 1. Poetry of the present I - currents of the present . Ed. And Vorw. Hermann Holzmann. Innsbruck: Wagner 1953, pp. 116-120.
  • In: Hermann Lechner: Tiroler Bücherschau 1952–1954 . In: Word in the mountains, literature from Tyrol . Jg./Nr. 6, 1954, pp. 161-162.
  • In: Guide through modern literature in Austria . Edited by Heinz Kindermann. Innsbruck: Österreichische Verlagsanstalt 1954, p. 78.
  • Paulin, Karl: “A Tyrolean loyal to home in Vienna. For Hofrat Josef Neumair's 80th birthday ”. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . Jg./Nr. 81, 1957, p. 5.
  • Hollnsteiner, Franz Xaver: "Josef Neumair, a biographical study". In: Josef Neumair: O Land Tirol . Vienna 1957, pp. 35-46.
  • In: Bio-bibliographical literature dictionary of Austria . Ed. Hans Giebisch, Gustav Gugitz. Vienna: Hollinek 1964, p. 277.
  • In: Lechner, Hermann: “Seven hundred years of Tyrolean poetry. A review". In: The house book of Tyrolean poetry. Selected by Ambros Mayr . Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: Tyrolia 1965, p. 623.
  • In: Wimmer, Paul: Guide through the literature of Tyrol since 1945 . Darmstadt: Bläschke 1978 (Brennpunkte 15, Ed. Hermann Kuprian), p. 205f.
  • "Josef Neumair". In: Oberkofler, Elmar: Encounters. Sketches of important personalities from the cultural and literary history of South Tyrol . Brixen: Weger 1991, pp. 49-58.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Neumair in the German biography : http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd1024675874.html
  2. ↑ Teichl, Robert (ed.) (1951). Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries . Vienna: Austrian State Printing Office. P. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Neumair, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher, writer, German scholar, literary critic, classical philologist, Graecist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunico
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1960
Place of death Vienna