Leo Stelzl

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Leo Stelzl (born May 6, 1897 in Graz , † November 17, 1949 there ) was an Austrian art writer.

Life

Stelzl completed his apprenticeship as a display arranger from around 1911 to 1915. He later worked as a journalist and from around 1939 as an insurance officer.

He wrote for various Grazer papers such as the Tagespost , Tagblatt , Grazer Volksblatt and Kleine Zeitung . For Der Lichtblick , the first illustrated Graz magazine after 1945, Stelzl regularly portrayed artists, mostly from Styria. Contributions from him were also broadcast on the radio, such as B. about the painter Switbert Lobisser (December 1936) and the sculptor Wilhelm Gösser (July 1937) on the transmitter Graz.

Stelzl also wrote several independent publications. His stage plays Love - a Business and 's Spinnweber Reserl were performed at the Volkstheater Graz in 1933 and 1934 respectively. In May 1936, his novel The Unknown Soldier appeared in sequels in the Graz Sunday Messenger .

Stelzl was among other things a member of the cooperative of the visual artists Styria and the Steiermärkischer Kunstverein, of which he became an honorary member in 1936. He was also a member of the Reich Association of the Hard of Hearing.

Stelzl lived in Graz. He was married and had no children.

Works

  • Light and shadow. Poems. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz 1931.
  • Love a business. Comedy. 1933.
  • 's Spiderweb Reserl. Folk piece. 1934.
  • The unknown soldier. Novel. 1936.

literature

  • Hans Giebisch : Stelzl, Leo. in: Small Austrian Literature Lexicon. (Austrian homeland, 8) Hollinek, Vienna 1948.
  • Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Stelzl, Leo. in: Handbook: Austrian Literature 1938–1945. Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 1: Styria. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77809-7 , pp. 331-332.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: "Zero hour" for Styrian authors? Literary reconstruction in Graz 1945/1946. , P. 10. in: Graz 1945. Historical yearbook of the city of Graz. 25 : 421-441 (1994).
personal data
SURNAME Stelzl, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1949
Place of death Graz