Leopold Wandl
Leopold Wandl (born July 18, 1923 in Mauthausen ; † June 10, 2009 in Linz ) was an Upper Austrian writer and dialect poet .
Life
Leopold Wandl spent his childhood and school days in Mauthausen. At the age of 18 he was called up for the Reich Labor Service and then for the German Wehrmacht . After serving on the Russian front , he returned to Upper Austria in 1945 , initially exercising various professions for 15 years ( shift worker , farmer , gendarme , community secretary and innkeeper ) and was an insurance employee and freelance journalist from 1960 until his retirement . For the last few years until his death he lived in a retirement home in Linz.
His breakthrough as an author came in the early 1960s. His artistic work is predominantly characterized by poems in Upper Austrian dialect. He has also published numerous short stories and works in standard language ( Austrian German ). He became known to the general public through columns in daily newspapers . A total of 27 books by the author have been published.
Awards
- Gold Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria
- Consultant for popular education and homeland maintenance of the Upper Austrian provincial government
- Stelzhamer badge of the province of Upper Austria
- Cultural medal of the state capital Linz
- Patron of the 1989 Leopold Wandl Prize of the City of Grein (Committee for the Care of Dialect Poetry)
- Professional title professor
- Decoration of honor of the market town of Mauthausen in silver and gold
- Decoration of honor in silver and gold and honorary membership of the Stelzhamer Association
- Memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Mauthausen
- Culture award "We build a bridge to the future for the children" of the KIWANIS Club Mühlviertel 2002
Works (selection)
- Milestones of my life (2005)
- Late Roses: Poems (2004)
- In the side mirror: Contemporary dialect poems (2002, together with Angelika Fürthauer and Michael Pammesberger)
- My Long Way: Memories (2002)
- Christmas Season: Poems and Stories from Late Autumn to Candlemas (2001)
- A glow shone over the world: For mixed choir, organ preludes ad lib. (2000, together with Alfred Hochedlinger)
- Bruckn between yesterday and morning: poems, sayings and stories in Upper Austrian dialect (2000, together with Hans Ratzesberger)
- Read, laugh, live longer: poems, stories, anecdotes to smile and reflect (2000)
- Between seed and harvest (1999, together with Alfred J. Aumayer, Walter Aigner and Margit Staudinger)
- After Bethlehem (1998)
- Tautropfen fürs Gmüat: Poetry in Upper Austrian Dialect (1997)
- From time to time: experienced, listened to, researched (1996)
- Stammtisch G'schichten: G'reimt und ung'reimt (1995, together with Katharina Dobler and Alfred J. Aumayr)
- Dáhoam is dáhoam (1993, together with Paul Stepanek)
- There and there z'sammklaubt (1968)
- Lumpi the Vagrant (1967)
- Cherry Blossoms (1966)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karlheinz Sandner: Leopold Wandl in: Webpräsenz des Stelzhamerbund accessed on June 12, 2009
Web links
- Literature by and about Leopold Wandl in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wandl, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mauthausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 2009 |
| Place of death | Linz |