Konrad Mautner
Konrad Mautner (born February 23, 1880 in Vienna ; † May 15, 1924 ibid) actually Conrad David Mautner was an Austrian folk researcher.
Life
Konrad Mautner was the second son of the textile industrialist Isidor Mautner . Due to his poor health, his school education was mainly carried out by a private tutor. Although his father took him on business trips to Paris and Rosenberg , Konrad showed little interest in his father's companies. In 1900 he was sent to the United States for a year to gain experience in the textile industry there, but Konrad's observations there only increased his skepticism towards industrial society. Nevertheless, his father placed him on several boards of directors of his textile company and in 1915 appointed him a member of the board of Deutsche Textilwerke Mautner AG in Plauen , although he did not actually perform this function, because at the same time he was doing his military service in the music history headquarters of the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry in Vienna. There he was entrusted with the collection of soldiers' songs. In 1921 Konrad Mautner finally retired from all positions in his father's company.
Konrad Mautner's true passion was the folk culture of the Ausseerland , where he had spent the summer holidays with his parents and siblings every year since early childhood and made close friends with locals. After getting married to his cousin Anna Neumann in 1909, he moved to the Grundlsee . The marriage had five children. In 1919 Konrad Mautner converted to Protestantism together with his wife Anna Mautner .
Konrad Mautner collected old costumes, founded a traditional costume association in 1909, organized traditional costume festivals and published numerous studies on the customs and songs of the Aussee region. Konrad Mautner's 1910 "Steyerisches Raspelwerk. Songs, Quatrains and Gassel Rhymes from Goeßl am Grundlsee" is considered a bibliographical treasure, the very complex production of which was financed by his father. An even more extensive project was the "Steyrische Trachtenbuch", begun in 1922 together with folk researcher Viktor Geramb , which was only completed in 1939. Konrad Mautner only saw the publication of the first volume; he died on May 15, 1924.
Others
A little over a year after his death, a memorial stone was inaugurated in Gössl on September 6, 1925 in honor of Konrad Mautner, which was destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. Since 2008 a plaque commemorates Konrad Mautner in the same place. In 1993 the Mautnerweg in Vienna- Währing (18th district) was named after Konrad Mautner; there is also a memorial plaque there. The Konrad-Mautner-Weg hiking route leads from Gößl to Lake Toplitz .
The Austrian entrepreneur Gexi Tostmann initiated the Konrad Mautner Prize with her daughter Anna , which has been awarded every two years since 2006 to so-called “traditional costume ambassadors”.
Publications
- Conversations of the Gößler Holzknechte , 1909, in: Zeitschrift für Österreichische Volkskunde, XV. Born 1909, Vienna, pp. 161–169
- The Steyerische Raspelwerk , 1910, Stähelin and Lauenstein, Vienna
- Old songs and wise men from the Steyermärkisches Salzkammergut , 1919, Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz
- Alpine songs from German Austria , 1919, Lyra-Verlag, Leipzig, with Wilhelm Kienzl and Viktor Zack
- Praise and honor saying of the great usability of the noble and ancient steel and iron mining gem located in the famous iron ore mark of the state of Steyr, item The common old iron ore table Berck rhyme on a Löbl. Innerbergische Haubtgewerckschektiven [...] new to the day, provided with a transcription of the old note recording, a contrafactur of the sovereign market Eisenerzt, and some old miners' pictures, as well as several comments increased by Konrad Mautner , Graz 1919, Leuschner & Lubensky
- The Traismaurer Nativity Play , 1920, Stähelin and Lauenstein, Vienna, with drawings by Konrad Mautner
- Styrian costume book , 1939, Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz, completed by Viktor von Geramb after Mautner's death
- Under the pseudonym Adam Konturner, since 1918 co-editor of: “Alte Lieder fürs Landvolk”, Stähelin and Lauenstein, Vienna
literature
- M. Bucek - KM Klier: Mautner Konrad. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 165.
- Wolfgang Hafer: The other Mautners. The fate of a Jewish entrepreneurial family. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-061-2 .
- Viktor Geramb: Eternal companions. A book of memories, Graz 1952 , pp. 56–68
- Martin Pollner: Historical structures of the town of Bad Aussee and the Ausseerland, Graz 2005
- Nora Schönfellinger (Ed.): "Conrad Mautner, great talent", Grundlsee 1999
- Michael Martischnig: Bibliography-Konrad Mautner, yearbook of the Austrian folk song work 29/1980; Pp. 144-149
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salzkammergut for mountain hikers: 80 selected hikes and walks
- ↑ Grundlseer Schriften, Volume 3 ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Konrad Mautner in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Literature by and about Konrad Mautner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Konrad Mautner (1880–1924). Grundlsee municipality, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
- Konrad Mautner 1880–1924. Altaussee Literature Museum, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mautner, Konrad |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mautner, Konrad David (real name); Mautner, Conrad; Konturner, Adam (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian industrialist, ethnologist, folklorist and editor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1880 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1924 |
Place of death | Vienna |