Karl Hans Strobl

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Karl Hans Strobl

Karl Hans Strobl (pseudonym: Matthias Rongstock , born January 18, 1877 in Iglau (Jihlava), Moravia , † March 10, 1946 in Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Strobl studied law at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague from 1894 and became active in Corps Austria there. After completing his doctorate , he became secretary at the Jihlava District Court in 1900 and later finance commissioner in Brno . His involvement in the German National Movement brought him into conflict with his Czech superiors. He then resigned from civil service and in 1913 became the publisher of the Turmhahn in Leipzig . During the First World War he was a war correspondent from 1915 to 1918 . After acquiring Austrian citizenship , he worked as a freelance writer in Iglau and Perchtoldsdorf . He wrote over 100 works, mostly novels and short stories , also biographies and numerous magazine articles.

Strobl began his writing career in 1900 with the publication of fantastically grotesque haunted stories. He became known to the general public through his Prague student novels. In Die Vaclavbude Strobl describes his own connection, the Corps Austria in the days of the so-called Badeni uprising in 1897. At the same time, he immortalized Sigmund Pick . The Schipkapass reflects life in the Schipkapass inn . As a Sudeten German , Strobl later advocated the imperial idea in numerous works .

From 1919 to 1921 - in close collaboration with Alfons von Czibulka - he published the journal Der Orchideengarten , a series of magazines for fantasy and erotic literature , in which he also published his own works. “In recognition of his outstanding poetic work”, the German-Austrian writers' cooperative elected Strobl in 1925 as its president. Alongside Gustav Meyrink and Hanns Heinz Ewers, Strobl is now one of the “big three of German fantasy after 1900”.

Karl Hans Strobl's grave

politics

In the corporate state (Austria) Strobl belonged to the (opposing) National Socialist German Workers' Party since 1933 . In 1934 he was expelled from Czechoslovakia for "dangerous activity". From 1938 he was regional director of the Reich Chamber of Literature in Vienna. After the annexation of Austria , Strobl contributed to the confessional book of Austrian poets , published by the Association of German Writers in Austria . The book welcomed the connection enthusiastically.

Arrested in 1945 by the Red Army and briefly forced to work in road construction, he died impoverished after several strokes in 1946 in the old people's home in Perchtoldsdorf. His grave is at the Perchtoldsdorfer Friedhof (group 2c, row 14, grave number 12).

In the Soviet occupation zone , Strobl's works Ein Gute Wehr und Waffen (Leipzig 1915), Between the Vistula and the Carpathians (Weimar 1915), Village in the Caucasus (Leipzig 1936), Fire in the Neighboring House (Vienna, Leipzig 1938), Die Heimkehr (Berlin 1941) and World history and the hedgehog house ( Budweis 1944) put on the list of literature to be discarded. The Czechs followed in the German Democratic Republic (Leipzig 1920).

corps

Strobl as a student

As a former corps student , he was awarded the ribbons by three Kösener corps in Austria after the First World War : Frankonia Brünn (1920), Frankonia Prague (1922) and Saxonia Vienna (1935). He took an active part in the life of the corps student in Czechoslovakia through numerous visits to events in Prague and Brno.

Works (selection)

The inspiration of Arphaxat, original edition 1904, Verlag Bruns, Minden i. W.
Edition by Bismarck (1919)

Prague student novels

  • The Vaclavbude , Leipzig 1902 ÖNB
  • The Schipka Pass , Berlin 1908
  • The inn "Zum König Przemysl" , Leipzig 1913
  • The Flamanders of Prague (new edition of “Der Schipkapass” ), Karlsbad 1932
  • Black-white-yellow. A game for the 65th Foundation Festival of the Corps Austria-Prague in Frankfurt a / M. , o. O. 1926, reprint in: Einst und Jetzt Jahrbuch des Verein für Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung eV, Würzburg 2006, pp. 243–264
  • The Torch of Hus , Karlsbad and Leipzig 1942

Fantastic and other novels

  • The misunderstood Hans , Zurich, C. Schmidt, 1898
  • For reasons and abysses, sketches from everyday life and from over there , Leipzig, Seeman, 1901
  • And see, this is how I expect you, sketchbook of a mature love , Leipzig, 1901
  • The Fenriswolf , Leipzig Fontane 1903
  • The inspirations of Arphaxat. Strange stories , Minden 1904, [15 short stories]
  • Dangerous rays, Roman , Berlin, F. Fontane, 1906
  • Thoughtful Histories, Neue Novellen , F. Fontane, 1907
  • Moravian walks , Friedr. Irrgang, Brno, 1909
  • The burning mountain: Roman , Berlin; Ullstein & Co., [1910?]
  • Eleagabal Kuperus , Munich 1910 (New edition Festa Leipzig 2006, Part 1 ISBN 3-86552-014-6 , Part 2 ISBN 3-86552-015-4 )
  • The women's refuge in Brescia , L. Staackmann, Leipzig 1911 (abbreviated in 1942 by JJ Weber in the weaver's library as number 51)
  • The bony hand and other things , Munich, Müller, 1911
  • Isgard Gestettner: Roman , German-Austrian publishing house, 1911
  • The pranks of the bad Paulette or the island of disappointment, novel in white and blue , Ullstein, 1912
  • The three journeymen, A cheerful novel , Leipzig, Staackmann 1914
  • The four marriages of Matthias Merenus , Leipzig 1914
  • Madame Blaubart, Roman , Post and Obermüller, Leipzig 1915
  • Lemuria , G. Müller, Munich 1917 (new edition Festa, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-86552-029-4 )
  • Silk Borowitz, Roman , Leipzig, L. Staackmann, 1918
  • The crystal ball, new novellas Leipzig, L. Staackmann, 1919
  • Rest away !, novellas , 2 volumes, Strache, Vienna a. a, 1919-1920
  • The assassin , Staackmann, Leipzig 1920
  • Ghosts in the swamp , Leipzig 1920
  • The old towers: Roman , Leipzig: L. Staackmann, 1921
  • The magic beetle , Rikola Verlag, Vienna 1923
  • We had built: Roman , Leipzig: L. Staackmann, 1923
  • The crazy focus: Grotesque Histörchen . Munich: Alfred Wieser Verlag, 1923
  • Strange grotesques / A SELECTION OF HIS STORIES WITH A LETTER AS AN INTRODUCTION , Vienna-Leipzig: Verlag der Gesellschaft für Graphische Industrie, 1923
  • Death deceived , Leipzig, P. Reclam, 1924
  • Die Wunderlaube , stories, Leipzig, L. Staackmann, 1924
  • Beelzebub's Meerschaumkopf, Fantastic Novellas , European Publishing House, 1924
  • The great adventure and other stories between sun and shadow , Steyrermühl, Vienna, 1924
  • The secret of the blue swords, Roman , Leipzig, L. Staackmann, 1925
  • The eggs of the basilisk , Reichenberg 1926
  • The Goldberg. A novel from Carinthia , Leipzig, Staackmann, 1926
  • Army King Ariovist , KF Koehler, 1927
  • The chief Sisanda and other stories , Berlin. Weltgeist-Bücher Verlag-Gesellschaft, 1927
  • Christmas stories (published by the German People's Education Association, Iglau / Jihlava, Theodor Illing, 1927 and 1928)
  • Erasmus with the divining rod, Roman , L. Staackmann, 1928
  • Two Saltzenbrod, Roman , Leipzig, L. Staackmann Verlag, 1928
  • Bismarck (3 vols.) Leipzig 1915-1919, Voltmedia Paderborn, ISBN 3-937229-22-1 .
  • Od: the discovery of the magical man, Roman , Staackmann, 1930
  • Goya and the lion face , Leipzig 1932 ÖNB
  • The Madonna with the wristwatch: new novellas , Graz: In the publishing house "Das Bergland-Buch," 1932
  • Comrade Viktoria: Roman , Leipzig Staackmann, 1933
  • Trial Borowska, a pocket novel , Leipzig, L. Staackmann, 1934
  • But Innocent! An already quite cheerful novel , Berlin, P. Zsolnay, 1935.
  • Village in the Caucasus, Roman , Grethlein & Co. Nachf., 1936
  • The grave of the white king, Roman , German book community G M B H, 1936
  • The runes and the torture wood: Roman , Dresden, Zwinger-verlag 1936
  • Hunzaches, the robber , Wilhelm Limpert Verlag 1936
  • Fire in the neighboring house: a novel of the day after tomorrow , Carl Stephenson Verl., 1938
  • Rex, Story of a Dog and Two People , Sonnen-Verlag, 1939
  • Totenhorn south face , Berlin 1939
  • The blue miracle. A happy book , Berlin Carl Stephenson Verlag 1939
  • The tipsy carousel. A cheerful book , Carl Stephenson Verlag, Berlin 1940
  • Glass and happiness , Berlin 1942
  • A fateful day for Ferdinand Raimund , Vienna, Wiener Verlagsgesellschaft 1942
  • Kaiser Rotbart , Budweis 1944

Essays

  • Arno Holz and the youngest German movement , Berlin: Gose & Tetzlaff, 1902.
  • Bettina von Arnim , Essay, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1906
  • Alfred Mombert: from God and from the poet , JCC Bruns, Herzogl. Saxon. u. Princely Schaumb.-Lippische Hof-Verlagbuchhandlung, 1906
  • Words of Poe , JCC Bruns, 1907
  • Romantic journey in the Orient , sketches, Vita Verlag, 1910
  • Ludwig Anzengruber , Rösl, 1920
  • Czechs , Leipzig: Dürr & Weber, 1920
  • Prague. Fate, shape and soul of a city , Leipzig, Adolf Luser Verlag, 1940

Plays

  • The Strong : Play in Four Acts, Seemann Nachf., Leipzig 1903
  • The Nibelungen on the Danube; festival in four departments , drama, Berlin, F. Fontane & co., 1907

Autobiographical writings

  • The second tape. In: Aura Academica, 2nd year, Leipzig 1914, pp. 139–156.
  • Between the Vistula and the Carpathians, Austro-Hungarian heroic battles , Weimar, G. Keipenheuer, 1915.
  • The war in Alpenrot , Ullstein & co., 1916
  • Lost homeland, memories of youth from East Germany , Stuttgart 1920
  • KP Qu. Stories and pictures from the Austrian war press quarter , Reichenberg 1928 ÖNB
  • Home in the early light (Lost Home). Youth memories from East Germany. (Revised) , Budweis, Leipzig 1942 ÖNB
  • Happy wandering , Budweis, Leipzig 1942
  • World history and the hedgehog house , Budweis, Leipzig 1944

Film adaptations

literature

  • K. Gradwohl-Schlacher:  Karl Hans Strobl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 416 f. (Direct links on p. 416 , p. 417 ).
  • Anton Altrichter: Karl Hans Strobl. A picture of life and work. Leipzig 1927.
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , KG Saur, Munich 1998, Volume 9, P. 591, ISBN 3-598-23169-5 ÖNB
  • Jürgen Herrlein : Karl Hans Strobl. In: Friedhelm Golücke (Hrsg.), Author's lexicon for student and university history , Sh-Verlag, Cologne 2004, pp. 248–249, ISBN 3-89498-130-X
  • Raimund Lang : The dramaturge of Prague. Karl Hans Strobl as a student poet . In Freshness / Becker: Between cosmopolitanism and national narrowing, Würzburg 2000, (= Historica academica. Vol. 39), p. 137ff.
  • Marta Maschke: The German-Czech nationality conflict in Bohemia and Moravia as reflected in the novels by Karl Hans Strobl. Erfurt, Univ., Diss., 2003. CD-ROM edition: Berlin: dissertation.de 2003. ISBN 3-89825-656-1
  • Eckart Mensching : Caesar and the Teutons in the 20th century. Remarks on the afterlife of the "Bellum Gallicum" in German-language texts. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht 1980. ( Hypomnemata ; H. 65) ISBN 3-525-25161-0
  • Elsa Müller: Karl Hans Strobl's novellas. Vienna: Univ. Diss. 1940. ÖNB
  • Clemens Ruthner: Eerie return. Interpretations of the ghostly fictional characters by Ewers, Meyrink, Soyka, Spunda and Strobl. Meitingen: Corian-Verl. Wimmer 1993. (= studies on fantastic literature; 10) ISBN 3-89048-119-1
  • Ferdinand Schmatz : Karl Hans Strobl's Bismarck Trilogy. On völkisch-national and national-socialist literature in Austria (1900-1945). Vienna: Univ. Diss. 1982.
  • Verna Schuetz: The bizarre literature of Hanns Heinz Ewers, Alfred Kubin, Gustav Meyrink, and Karl Hans Strobl. Madison (Wis.): Univ. Diss. 1974.
  • Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War. Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52178-9 , pp. 62, 187, 199, 229, 285 and 783.
  • Hans Thalhammer : Karl Hans Strobl. Lilienfeld: Waldland-Verl. (1937)
  • Günter Wackwitz: Karl Hans Strobl (1877-1946). His life and his fantastically oriented early work . Halle: Univ. Diss. 1981.

Web links

Commons : Karl Hans Strobl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Karl Hans Strobl  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 25/160
  2. ↑ a b Karl Hans Strobl. For the poet's 50th birthday. In:  Badener Zeitung , January 15, 1927, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  3. ↑ Stefan Weber: Cultural and historical conditions of fantastic literature around 1900. Criticism of materialism in Meyrink, Ewers and Strobl. Diploma thesis University of Vienna , Vienna 2010, p. 9 ( PDF )
  4. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 601.
  5. ^ Association of German writers Austria (ed.): Confession book of Austrian poets . Krystall Verlag, Vienna 1938.
  6. ↑ Literature to be sorted out 1946
  7. ↑ Literature to be sorted out 1947
  8. ↑ requiring elimination Literature 1953
  9. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 17/82; 121/86; 136/281
personal data
SURNAME Strobl, Karl Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1946
Place of death Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna