Josef Rampold

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Josef Rampold (born January 18, 1925 in Sterzing ; † November 12, 2007 in Bozen ) was a mountaineer , journalist , author and local historian from South Tyrol .

Life

Rampold attended elementary school and the humanistic grammar school in Innsbruck. During the Second World War he was a soldier in the German Wehrmacht, with whom he marched into South Tyrol in September 1943 ( operational zone Alpine foothills ). In 1945 he was taken prisoner of war. After his release he studied German at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck . After moving to Bolzano in 1951, he taught German, history and Latin at what was then a grammar school for 18 years (lower levels 1–5, corresponding to the 6th to 10th school year). During this time he also worked as a news anchor and presenter for the " Rai Sender Bozen ". From 1958 he designed the mountaineering page for the daily newspaper " Dolomiten ". Later Rampold, married and father of three children, worked full-time as a journalist and editor for the publishing house Athesia and the "Rai Sender Bozen". On the radio, the enthusiastic mountain hiker was responsible for a weekly local history broadcast, the Volks- und Heimatliche Rundschau , Rund um den Schlern (from 1968 to about 1971) and An Eisack, Etsch and Rienz (about 1972-2007). After Rampold fell ill, only reruns of earlier programs were broadcast recently. In summer, the Eisack, Etsch and Rienz programs were always replaced by a summer in the mountains .

From 1981 to 1995 Rampold was editor-in-chief of "Dolomiten", the most widely read South Tyrolean daily newspaper. He referred to himself as the "main editor" and repeatedly came out between 1971 and 1995 with very polemical, culturally conservative marginal comments, which he drew as "X." (which is why he was sometimes referred to as "Mister X."). After his retirement in 1995 he continued to work as a freelancer for the “Dolomites” and “Rai Sender Bozen”. Until 2003 he wrote the weekly mountaineering page and a column on the state of the German language, which he signed with Der Federfuchser (1996-2005).

reception

The assessment of Rampold's cultural and socio-political commitment is ambivalent. Rampold was considered a contentious conservative who, with his journalistic power, played a decisive role in shaping the cultural climate in South Tyrol. His strict rejection applied to any form of artistic expression of the modern age , which for him began with the 20th century. His mission was also to defend the so-called generation of the Wehrmacht , whose knowledge or involvement in the crimes of the National Socialists he decisively denied. He met with bitter resistance to historians who attempted a critical reappraisal of the history of National Socialism in South Tyrol and who questioned the then prevailing portrayal of the optants for the German Reich as pure victims of fascism .

Rampold achieved great merits in the areas of landscape and nature conservation . In times of the first tourist boom, he awakened an early environmental awareness in the South Tyrolean population with militant articles in the daily newspaper "Dolomiten" .

In 2010 the newly built Vipiteno elementary school of Schulsprengels I was named after him.

Works (selection)

  • South Tyrolean regional studies: Eisacktal (1969, 5th edition: ISBN 88-7014-166-7 ).
  • South Tyrolean geography: Bolzano. Salten, Sarntal, Ritten, Eggental (1970, 3rd edition 1979: ISBN 88-7014-050-4 ).
  • South Tyrol, land of mountain farmers (1971).
  • South Tyrolean regional studies: Vinschgau (1971, 7th edition: ISBN 88-7014-165-9 ).
  • South Tyrolean regional studies: Pustertal (1972, 6th edition: ISBN 88-7014-164-0 ).
  • South Tyrolean mountain lakes (1974, with Hanspaul Menara ).
  • South Tyrolean mountain tours (1976, with Hanspaul Menara).
  • To Eisack, Etsch and Rienz (1980: ISBN 88-7014-197-7 ).
  • The forgotten of Lusers. Memories of Matthäus Nicolussi 1852–1922. A teacher tells from old Tyrol. (1998: ISBN 88-7014-975-7 ).
  • The best from Federfuchser (2005: ISBN 88-8266-351-5 ).
  • South Tyrolean Elegy (2007: ISBN 88-8266-439-2 ).

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nina Schröder: Culture as a crucial test . In: Gottfried Solderer (Ed.): The 20th Century in South Tyrol. Autonomy and departure . Volume IV: 1960-1979. Edition Raetia, Bozen 2002, ISBN 88-7283-183-0 , p. 174-205 (particularly p. 180).
  2. ↑ Gerald Steinacher , Günther Pallaver : Leopold Steurer: Historians between research and interference . In: Christoph von Hartungen , Hans Heiss , Günther Pallaver, Carlo Romeo , Martha Verdorfer (eds.): Democracy and memory. South Tyrol - Italy - Austria. Festschrift for Leopold Steurer on his 60th birthday . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2006, ISBN 978-3-7065-4252-4 , pp. 51–91.
  3. ↑ Zeno Abram: Not a beautiful country . In: Gottfried Solderer (Ed.): The 20th Century in South Tyrol. Autonomy and departure . Volume IV: 1960-1979. Edition Raetia, Bozen 2002, ISBN 88-7283-183-0 , p. 270-285 (particularly p. 281).
  4. ↑ Primary School Dr. Josef Rampold, Sterzing I school district
personal data
SURNAME Rampold, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feather fox
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mountaineer, journalist, author and local historian (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterzing
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2007
Place of death Bolzano