Klara Pölt
Klara Pölt (née Kritzinger , pseudonym Klara Pölt-Nordheim , born May 1, 1862 in Sarnthein , † November 16, 1926 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian writer .
Life
The landlady's daughter grew up in Sarnthein in the Sarntal and attended elementary school there. Then she came to the Nonnberg monastery in Salzburg to prepare for the teaching profession. However, she married the finance officer Edwin Pölt and moved with him to Innsbruck in 1899. The couple had five children.
Her talent as a writer was already noticed in school and she was soon writing stories and essays for calendars and newspapers. The folklorist Ludwig von Hörmann became their sponsor. Pölt published three books with stories, her first work, Lodenrock und Wifflingkittel , published in 1911, was a great success. While working on her fourth book, From the Sunny South , she fell ill and passed away. In addition to numerous stories, she had planned historical novels and wrote a play, The Storm Bell , which was not suitable for the stage.
Klara Pölt maintained a close connection with her South Tyrolean homeland, where the family regularly spent their holidays. She also chose her pseudonym Nordheim after a place in the Sarntal. With their descriptions of folk customs and traditions from the Sarntal, their stories are an important source for Tyrolean folklore. Klara Pölt also provided valuable material for dialectology and name research at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna . She also appeared as a collector of folk songs for the Tyrolean Committee of the Austrian Folksong Company (today: Tiroler Volksliedarchiv / Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck).
In 1959 the Klara-Pölt-Weg in Innsbruck and in 1984 the primary school “Klara Pölt” in Sarnthein was named after the poet.
Works
- Loden skirt and wiffling smock. Stories from the Sarntal. Verlag der Deutschen Alpenzeitung, Munich 1911
- Mountain people and villagers: Tyrolean stories. Bonz, Stuttgart 1914
- Tyrolean nails. Stories. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1918
- Poems and stories in numerous newspapers and magazines, etc. a. in the Schlern
literature
- K. Paulin: Pölt, Klara. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 142.
- Markus Feiersinger: Klara Pölt-Nordheim in the Lexikon Literatur Tirol (Research Institute Brenner Archive of the University of Innsbruck)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tyrolean Folk Song Archive, Inv.No. 130 (annual entries from 1912-1917)
- ^ New streets in Innsbruck. In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck, No. 8, 1959, p. 4 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Sarntal school district: School name of the Sarnthein primary school ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pölt, Klara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pölt-Nordheim, Klara (pseudonym); Kritzinger, Klara (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sarnthein |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1926 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |