Ludwig Huna

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Ludwig Huna (born January 18, 1872 in Vienna , † November 28, 1945 in St. Gallen in Styria ) was an Austrian novelist and playwright.

Life

Huna was the son of the Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Huna and Marie Wawra. He attended the military lower secondary school in Kaschau , then the military upper secondary school in Mährisch Weißkirchen and then graduated from the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt . In 1893 he was retired as a lieutenant in the kuk Infantry Regiment No. 100 . From 1896 to 1902 he served as a supplementary district officer. In 1897 he became a first lieutenant. In 1904 he attended the Corps Officer School in Cracow . In 1906 he resigned from the army. After refusing to duel, he lost his charge by an honorary council , but was rehabilitated in 1918.

Huna had already started publishing dramatic works during his military service, but was not particularly successful. He achieved success as a novelist. His first novel Officers (1911) was still set in the military milieu he was familiar with, while his second novel Monna Beatrice (1913) gave the direction of his later successes in the subtitle Romance novel from old Venice , namely as a productive and widely read author who was erotically charged historical novels - Hermann Schreiber speaks of "historically disguised voyeur prosa". His portrayal of uninhibited action and sensual people, often set in the Renaissance, found a large reading audience, especially in the interwar period. His greatest success was the Borgia trilogy , in whose three novels The Bulls of Rome , The Star of Orsini and The Girl of Nettuno the fate of the notorious family of Pope Alexander VI. Rodrigo Borgia and his children Cesare and Lucrezia were presented in the form expected by the readers. As an example of Hunas prose, the beginning of the first volume:

“Trastevere races along in a laughing frenzy. The carnival swirls in glowing colors through the narrow streets of the Tiberviertel. The air is impregnated with joy, sensual pleasure, the scent of flowers and weeping. Fiery sheaves fly into the night sky over the Tiber Island, which makes its star lanterns shine on the dark canopy over the unholy city of Petri. "

And it's not just metaphors that have gone wild:

“The wind blows warm through the streets. He sprinkles the rain of blossoms of innumerable roses over girls and women who rush along in intertwining dance, as if they, thyrsus-swinging Thyads, were trying to make the temple festival of their shining god in the middle of holy Rome at home again. Arms wrap around each other, lips swell towards kisses, breath steams with sensuality, colored stones clink on the neck of the brown beauties from Trastevere, who bury their everyday misery under the cheers of the carnival night or gild it with the tinsel of fleeting love. "

This mastery of sultry-erotic compression of language is said to have been honored by the Catholic Church by including the Borgia trilogy in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum .

The Christ Trilogy , consisting of the novels A Star Rises , The High Shine and Golgotha , was published in 1938 and 1939. Huna said:

"If painting is allowed to understand the picture of Mary as Aryan mother, then the poet must also be free to draw his figure as absolutely Aryan, with special consideration of the unsemitic spirituality of the teachings of the master, that is, born of an Aryan mother, of inspired by the divine spirit. "

Huna was a member of the Ring Nationaler Schriftsteller , a national and anti-Semitic Austrian writers' association.

Huna died in 1945 at the age of 73 in St. Gallen in Styria. Even after the Second World War, new editions of his novels found a readership among other things in the program of book clubs.

Works

literature

  • Hans Kandolf: Ludwig Huna (1872-1945). Memory of the once very successful writer from St. Gallen in Upper Styria. In: Da schau her 22 (2001), no. 2, pp. 8-12.
  • Hermann Schreiber: Huna, Ludwig. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 6, p. 15.
  • Huna, Ludwig. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 11.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Clemens Kosel : German-Austrian artist and writer lexicon. Vol. 1. Vienna 1906, sv
  2. ↑ Huna: The bulls of Rome. Leipzig 1920, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Cf. Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien. Vol. 3. Vienna 1994. The actual inclusion in the index could not be verified.
  4. ↑ Quoted from Waldemar Oehlke : Deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart. Deutsche Bibliothek Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1942, sv
personal data
SURNAME Huna, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian novelist and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1945
Place of death St. Gallen , Styria