Karl Theodor Hoeniger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Hoeniger's grave

Karl Theodor Hoeniger (born October 21, 1881 in Vienna ; † August 28, 1970 in Merano ) was a South Tyrolean author and cultural historian .

Life

Hoeniger was born in Vienna as a Styrian with Tyrolean ancestors. There and in Klagenfurt he attended high school , then he did his one-year volunteer year with the artillery in Steyr . At the Universities of Erlangen and Vienna studied Hoeniger art history , German literature and philosophy and a doctorate in 1907, Dr. phil.

After completing his studies, Hoeniger became a dramaturge at the United Municipal Theaters in Graz and was later appointed to the Burgtheater . During the First World War he served on the Tyrolean front as leader of a field cannon battery on the Tonale , near Folgaria , in the seven municipalities and near Sesto .

After the war he married Käthe Pitscheider from Gries and stayed in South Tyrol . He became editor of the Bozner Nachrichten and published the Bozner Hauskalender (today: Südtiroler Hauskalender) from 1922 to 1967. He became the center of a circle that included Friedrich Teßmann , Karl von Hepperger and Josef Blaas. He also headed the cultural section of the Dolomites and the "Volksbote", was a theater and art critic and published numerous articles in the Schlern .

During the Second World War Hoeniger worked on the South Tyrolean cultural commission of the SS- Ahnenerbes in the working group "Germanic Weltanschauung and symbols". He also published in the National Socialist Bozner Tagblatt in 1943/45 .

With his poem The Eight Bozen Bliss , Hoeniger created a description of the old Bolzano patrician citizenship that has become popular .

Because of the bombing of Bolzano during the war, Hoeniger moved his residence to Obermais , where he stayed until his death.

The South Tyrolean Provincial Archives keep his scientific legacy .

Works

  • Old Bolzano picture book. 100 illustrations and 40 essays on the city's history. Ferrari-Auer: Bozen 1933 (digitized version) , ext. New edition ibid. 1968
  • Südtiroler Weinfibel , Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Bozen 1946
  • South Tyrolean folk life. In 170 paintings and drawings by Albert Stolz (1875–1947). A home book . Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1951
  • A list of houses in the old town of Bolzano from 1497 (Schlern writings 92). Innsbruck: Wagner 1951.

Awards

literature

  • Franz Hieronymus Riedl : Prof. Dr. Karl Theodor Hoeniger - 85 years old , in: Der Schlern , 1966, pp. 498–499.
  • Franz Huter : Karl Theodor Hoeniger (1881–1970). Obituary. In: Tiroler Heimat 34, 1970, pp. 123–126.
  • Eduard Widmoser: Südtirol A – Z , 2nd volume (G – Ko), Innsbruck 1983, Südtirol-Verlag, p. 233. DNB 870522426
  • Othmar Parteli: “Guardian of our intellectual existence” . In: Dolomites , 29./30. August 2020, p. 6 (with an apologetic tendency).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael H. Kater : The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS, 1935-1945: a contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich . Munich: Oldenbourg 2006, p. 161f.
  2. ↑ K. Th. Hoeniger: Germanic heritage in our folk dances . Bozner Tagblatt of April 29, 1944, p. 6 ( digital copy ); Continued ibid., May 6, 1944, p. 4 ( digitized version ); End ibid., May 13, 1944, p. 4 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Hoeniger: Altbozner Bilderbuch , p. 207. (online)
  4. ^ Karl Theodor Hoeniger: The eight Bozner bliss (poem). In: Merian South Tyrol . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe Jg./Nr. 10, 1957, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Hoeniger, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author and cultural historian (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1970
Place of death Meran