Karl Bienenstein

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Karl Bienenstein, handwritten: Dedicated to the writer Rudolf Greinz with warm regards from the author Karl Bienenstein, Marburg, November 1906.
Memorial plaque in Bruck an der Mur

Karl Bienenstein (born November 1, 1869 in Wieselburg , † February 1, 1927 in Bruck an der Mur ) was an Austrian German national poet , storyteller and writer .

Life

Karl Bienenstein was born in Wieselburg an der Erlauf in Lower Austria . He attended the teachers' seminar in St. Pölten and worked as a teacher in various places in Lower Austria. In the summer of 1904, Bienenstein moved to the Lower Styrian town of Marburg, (today Maribor , Slovenia ) where he initially taught as a specialist teacher from August 29, 1904, but was soon promoted to the position of director of the local school .

After the overthrow Bienenstein, like almost all German teachers was funded by the National Government SHS in Ljubljana / Ljubljana dismissed April 1, 1919 from the school system and the lack of possibility to earn compelled to migrate. He opted for Austria and on August 29, 1919 got a job as a citizen school director in Bruck an der Mur. Appointed school councilor, Karl Bienenstein lived and worked in this Styrian city until his untimely death in 1927 .

In addition to his professional and literary activities, Karl Bienenstein also wrote book reviews and short stories for various newspapers. The good friend Peter Roseggers made a name for himself above all as a realistic narrator who was close to nature. Bienenstein's estate is in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library .

Works

  • From the bottom of my heart , poems, 1893 ( digitized )
  • Art and People , Essays, 1893
  • Poems , 1895
  • Hostilities, life pictures from the Austrian pre-Alps , 1896
  • Dialect poetry of the German-Austrian Alps , 1897
  • Die Heimatscholle , Volksstück, 1897
  • From dream and longing , poems, 1898 ( digitized version )
  • Idealists, Two Tales of Petty Officials , 1903
  • Under the fairytale fir , fairy tale, 1906
  • Der Weltverdruß , novellas, 1908
  • Maria am Weg , novellas, 1908
  • When mountains wander , novellas, 1908
  • A hundred years ago, the experiences of a Viennese volunteer in 1809 , 1908
  • Wild growth , short stories, 1908
  • The dead in the ice , short stories, 1909
  • A righteous man , Volksstück, 1909
  • Three humoresques , 1910
  • Forest stories , 1910
  • The only one in the wide world , novel, 1911
  • The people of the Hochstein , narration, 1911
  • German longing and fighting , novel, 1912
  • The Three Faithful , Humoresque, 1912
  • German blood , narrative, 1913
  • Where people find peace , novel, 1913
  • In the ship master's house , Roman, Grethlein, Leipzig 1913
  • Das Hasenglöckerl , Humoresken, 1915
  • Fermenting Wine , novel, 1917
  • Under the Karfunkelsonne , fairy tale, 1917
  • Souls Found Home , short stories, 1918
  • The miracle of St. Cecilia , in love tales, 1919
  • The black stone , narrative, 1919
  • The Words of Salvation , novel, 1922
  • The Iron Lords , novel, 1922
  • Heimat , Roman, 1923
  • The Song of Heights , novel, 1923
  • The Admiral of the Danube , novel, 1924
  • Daxlhofer's critical day , 1924
  • The risen field , novel, 1925
  • The Fuchsbergerhof , Roman, 1927

Edited for the youth

  • Münchhausen's Travels and Adventures , 1922
  • Till Eulenspiegel , 1922

In the estate

  • Lost homeland , novel
  • Duty , novel

Awards and honors

In Mureck , the Karl Bienenstein-Weg is named after him.

literature

  • Franz Karl Nepel: Karl Bienenstein, a South Styrian poet . In: Franz Hausmann (Ed.): Südsteiermark. A memorial book. Moser, Graz 1925, pp. 333-340.
  • Paul Anton Keller (ed.): Call from the border. A book of Styrian art. Leykam, Graz et al. 1942 ( Der Kranz. Aus Steiermarks schöpferischer Kraft 2, ZDB -ID 1216268-1 ).
  • Andreas Brandtner: Edward Samhaber and Karl Bienenstein. Two German nationals in the Austrian-Slovenian nationality conflict. In: Andreas Brandtner, Werner Michler (Hrsg.): On the history of Austrian-Slovenian literary relations. Turia + Kant, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85132-185-5 , pp. 221–242 (exhibition catalog, Ljubljana / Laibach, literature exhibition of the Adalbert Stifter Institute of Upper Austria, October 27 - November 20, 1998).
  • Beehive Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 83.

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personal data
SURNAME Bienenstein, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bienenstein, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Wieselburg
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1927
Place of death Bruck an der Mur