Karl Schönherr

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Karl Schönherr
Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Karl Schönherr
Portrait bronze bust of Karl Schönherr at the Karl-Schönherr-Hof in Vienna 9th

Karl Schönherr (born February 24, 1867 in Axams , Tyrol ; † March 15, 1943 in Vienna ) was a doctor and writer .

Life

Karl Schönherr was the son of Maria Suitner (born April 7, 1835 in Leiblfing) and the village school teacher Josef Schönherr (born April 12, 1836 in Obsteig). Karl Schönherr initially studied medicine and was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. As a writer he made his breakthrough in the world of rural everyday scenarios following humorous stories; as a playwright with his tragedy of good people Die Bildschnitzer , which premiered in 1900 at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna . Belief and Heimat (1910) and Der Weibsteufel (1914) are among his most successful pieces . After the seizure of the Nazis it belonged to the political cleaned at National Academy of seal, a subdivision of the Prussian Academy of Arts . Reich dramaturge Rainer Schlösser described Schönherr's writing activity on May 9, 1933 in the Völkischer Beobachter as “ blood-true, down-to-earth work ”. At that time Schönherr wrote works such as Die Fahne weht (1937). On the occasion of the referendum on the Anschluss of Austria , he wrote the following verses in April 1938: "Now we are again a mighty country / just like in the old days / which does not tear any world apart". Schönherr, who was married to a Jew under the racist Nuremberg Laws (Malvine, 1867–1956), continued to receive writing permission; he died in 1943.

Karl Schönherr rests in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14 C, number 11).

Awards and honors

In Innsbruck , Kufstein , Lienz , Axams , Wörgl and Telfs streets were named after him. The Federal Commercial Academy and Federal Commercial School are located on Karl-Schönherr-Strasse in Innsbruck, while the Sprengelhauptschule of the western low mountain range in Axams is called Karl-Schönherr-Hauptschule. In Silandro in Vinschgau , the cultural center is named after him.

Works

  • Inntaler Schnalzer . Poems, 1895
  • Tyrolean Marterln . Poems, 1895
  • All sorts of cross heads . Stories, 1895
  • Karrner people '. In: Die Presse , October 29, 1895, online
  • The Judas of Tyrol . Drama, 1897
  • The picture carvers . Drama, 1900
  • The solstice day . Drama in five acts, first performed in 1902 in the Hofburgtheater in Vienna
  • Caritas . Story, 1905
  • Karrner people . Drama, 1905
  • Family . Drama, 1905; under the title Child Tragedy , 1913
  • Earth . Comedy of Life, 1907 (written in Altenberg in the house of Adolf Lorenz )
  • Faith and Home . The tragedy of a people. Drama, Leipzig 1910 - The stage play gave its name to the German Protestant church newspaper Glaube und Heimat in Thuringia, founded in 1924. The silent film Faith and Home by Emerich Hanus first hit the screen in 1921.
  • From my notebook . Story, 1911
  • Debt register . Story, Leipzig 1913
  • Tyrolean farmer's cock . Stories, 1913
  • The devil . Drama, 1914
    • Der Weibsteufel , radio play adaptation and direction: Ursula Scheidle , production: ORF / SWR 2019
  • People in need . Drama, 1916
  • Mrs. Suitner . Play in five acts, Leipzig 1917
  • The kingdom . Folk tales in four acts. Leipzig 1917
  • Fool's game of life . Drama, 1918
  • The fight . Drama, 1920
  • It . Play in five acts, Leipzig 1923
  • The comedian . A prelude and five acts, Vienna 1924
  • The first confession and other novellas [from: From my booklet and debt book ; Epilogue: Anton Bettelheim]. Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig, 1924
  • The hunger blockade . Drama, 1925
  • The poor doctor . Drama, 1927
  • The Spurius . Austrian comedy in three acts, Vienna 1927
  • Doctor, do you have something to eat? Drama, 1930
  • Passion play . Drama, 1933
  • The flag is blowing . Play in three acts, 1937

Film adaptations

  • The Judas of Tyrol . 1933 , 1978, 2006.
  • Earth . Screenplay: Eduard Köck , director: Leopold Hainisch , co-production Austria / Switzerland, 1946/47.
  • The devil . 1920, 1924, 1951, 1966 , 1983, 1984, 2000, 2009, 2012 (under the title Grenzgänger ).
  • The carvers - a tragedy of good people . Feature film / television, screenplay and direction: Luis Walter, RAI Sender Bozen, 2001.

literature

  • Karl Paulin: Karl Schönherr and his seals . Home and life. The narrator. The playwright, Innsbruck 1950.
  • Wilhelm Bortenschlager : Tyrolean Drama and Playwright in the 20th Century , St. Michael 1982.
  • Josef Kuderna (Ed.): Tyrolean folk theater 1982 in Telfs . Telfs 1982.
  • Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler :  Schönherr Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 85 f. (Direct links on p. 85 , p. 86 ).
  • Hans Peter Buohler: [Art.] Schönherr, Karl. In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Lim. by Walther Killy, ed. by Wilhelm Kühlmann (among others). Second, completely revised. Edition. Volume 10. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022042-1 , pp. 530-532.
  • Georg Kierdorf-Traut: Karl Schönherr (1867–1943). A forgotten Tyrolean poet-doctor. In: The Sciliar . Monthly magazine for South Tyrolean regional studies. 90th year, issue 12. Athesia Druck, Bozen December 2016, ISSN  0036-6145 , pp. 44–49.
  • Johann Holzner: The Hall Karl Schönherr . In: Aneta Jachimowicz (Hrsg.): Against the canon - literature of the interwar period in Austria . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2017, pp. 231–248.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 541-542.
  2. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich . P. 541.
  3. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich . P. 542.
  4. ↑ Adolf Lorenz: I was allowed to help. My life and work. (Translated and edited by Lorenz from My Life and Work. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York) L. Staackmann Verlag, Leipzig 1936; 2nd edition ibid. 1937, p. 241.
  5. ↑ http://www.theatergemeinschaft.com/portfolio/glaube-und-heimat/
  6. ↑ Der Weibsteufel, based on the drama by Karl Schönherr , SWR May 23, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schönherr, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Axams , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1943
Place of death Vienna