Karl Pschorn
Karl Pschorn (born July 17, 1885 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs , Austria-Hungary , † May 30, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian dialect poet with a National Socialist attitude.
Live and act
The middle school teacher wrote folk plays and deeply emotional poetry in the dialect of the Lower Austrian Mostviertel , but also made a name for himself as a prose poet .
In 1913 he founded the “Reich Association of German Dialect Poets”, which he headed from 1915 to 1924 and from 1931 onwards. According to the statutes, it operated "cultural cooperation in the folkish sense through the care of German intellectual property". From 1932 he was a member of the NSDAP , from 1939, although retired in 1936, a member of the NS teachers' association .
In 1938 Pschorn advocated the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich. He wrote the poem D'Bruck is builds about it . He integrated the Vienna Anzengruber Society, which he directed, into the National Socialist Volkskulturwerk.
In 1944 he received the " War Merit Cross II. Class " at the suggestion of the Reich Chamber of Culture . It was presented to him on the occasion of his 800th reading from his own works in Gloggnitz . After the end of the war he was obliged to work, but died at the end of May 1945. He was buried at the Ottakring cemetery .
Honors
In 1971 the street on the Schottenwiese in Vienna- Ottakring, which had not been officially named until then, was named Pschorngasse. In April 2015, the digital art project of remembrance proposed renaming it to Adele-Jellinek- Gasse for the first time . On the basis of the street name report published in 2013, the Greens applied for the name to be renamed Adele-Jellinek- Gasse.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pschorn Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 317.
- ↑ Memory Gaps ::: Memory gaps, accessed September 30, 2015
- ↑ Due to the NS past of the namesake: Pschorngasse needs to be renamed , article on mein district.at from August 17, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Pschorn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl Pschorn in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Peter Autengruber: Entry Pschorn in the street name report of the City of Vienna, 2013, p. 75
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pschorn, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian dialect poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waidhofen an der Ybbs |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1945 |
| Place of death | Vienna |