Maria Grengg

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Maria Grengg (born February 26, 1888 in Stein an der Donau , Lower Austria ; † October 8, 1963 in Rodaun , Vienna ) was an Austrian author of local novels , painter and illustrator of children's books .

Life

Birthplace in Stein an der Donau
Hofmannsthal-Schlössl in Rodaun

Maria Grengg grew up in the Wachau and attended the arts and crafts school in Vienna at the age of 17 , where she soon became a master student of Koloman Moser . During this time she also began to write. From 1915 on she lived in Perchtoldsdorf outside Vienna. Her literary breakthrough came in 1930 with the novel Escape to the Green Lord . At the beginning of the 1940s she moved into the Hofmannsthal-Schlössl in Rodaun near Vienna, where she lived until her death.

Maria Grengg says she was a member of the Fatherland Front from 1936 to 1938 .

Grengg's homeland novels met with great approval from the National Socialists , with whom the author sympathized. In 1935 she wrote a hymn to Adolf Hitler . Regarding the “annexation” of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, she was publicly quoted as saying: “When Adolf Hitler came and only took us with his big heart, I was happy that everything was good now and that he had always loved , greatest son in my homeland she is now giving me back! ”Grengg joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1940 . In honor of Hitler, who was born in 1889, she gave 1889 as her official year of birth in agreement with her publisher. In her novels of the thirties, she openly expressed National Socialist ideas. In her application for membership in the Reichsschrifttumskammer in April 1938 she stated:

"In my books I want to dress the ideas of National Socialism in artistic form and thus convey them to the people in an easily comprehensible way."

- Maria Grengg :

In 1939, the Reichsschrifttumskammer determined Grengg's commitment to National Socialism and highlighted her lectures and poetry readings at universities, the Nazi teachers 'association and in the BDM's female leaders' camps . In 1943 Grengg was classified as “indispensable” and thus released from labor.

After the end of the Second World War , Maria Grengg limited herself to painting and writing self-illustrated books for young people.

She was buried in a grave of honor in the Perchtoldsdorfer Friedhof (group 2, number 13).

Artistic creation

Maria Grengg mainly wrote popular novels and short stories . She let their plot take place mainly in her home country.

In Grengg's 1938 novel Die Kindlmutter she openly processed National Socialist ideas and identified herself as a German national. The novel is set in an old mansion on the border with Hungary , “where the Turkish storm surge raged against Austria and poured out great misery, fire, murder and the thousandfold deaths of slavery over those who had their home here on the edge of the river against Asia ”. The main character of the novel, Christine, is a widow and mother of three children. Her husband was murdered by gypsies , but she finally finds a new love in the young teacher Wolfram. Christiane is portrayed as the “mother of all mothers” who finds happiness in raising children. The ideological background of the novel is provided by the figure of the old doctor, who encourages Christine to remarry: “Is it really only the rabble that should multiply its brood? Are only the gypsy women really proud of their many children? (...) After this war, which has guarded the inferior and alien races in the hinterland and has selected the best to die and perish, we need noble people again! (…) Women like you, Christiane, must give the de-soulled world the future nobles and greats and heroes and beautiful, strong-hearted girls! Such women must raise the valuable, the really modern people! (...) Such a woman belongs to all of us Germans. "

In 1946 her book Time of Reflection in Austria was added to the list of banned authors and books . The child mother was put on the list of literature to be sorted out in the German Democratic Republic . In 1947, at the request of the ÖVP , Grengg received an atonement from Austrian President Karl Renner .

Awards and honors

Honorary grave of Maria Grengg at the Perchtoldsdorf cemetery
  • 1937 Austrian State Prize for Literature for the collection of short stories Strong Hearts
  • 1956 Martin-Johann-Schmidt-Prize of the city of Krems an der Donau
  • 1958 Plaque of Honor from the Province of Lower Austria
  • 1960 Prize from the Lower Austrian provincial government for the open-air play The Wedding in Görthof
  • 1962 A memorial plaque is installed on Grengg's birthplace, the shipmaster's house in Stein, by the municipality of Krems
  • 1963 Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria
  • In 1966, on October 8th, on the occasion of the third anniversary of her death, the “Maria Grengg Society” was founded in Krems an der Donau
  • 1967 Meierhofgasse in was Vienna-Liesing (23rd district) in Maria-Grengg Alley renamed
  • In Krems, too, like in Perchtoldsdorf, there is a Maria-Grengg-Gasse

Works

  • The Escape to the Green Lord , Roman, 1930
  • Peterl. Novel from the beautiful Austrian Danube country , 1932
  • Love Island , novel, 1934
  • Das Feuermandl , novel, 1935
  • Edith in the green. Novel for the Young , 1934
  • The grumbling mountain , short story, 1936
  • Strong hearts
    • 1. The Refugee , novella, 1936
    • 2. The executioner , novella, 1936
    • 3. The robber , novella, 1936
    • 4. The winner , novella, 1936
    • 5. The Venus , novella, 1936
  • Lower Austria, the land under the Enns , 1936
  • The nut kernel , narrative, 1937
  • The child mother , novel, 1938
  • The Tulipan , novella, 1938
  • Time for reflection. A German devotional book , 1939
  • The last love of Giacomo Casanova , novella, 1948
  • Sorrowful Mother , novella, 1948
  • Letter from Belgrade 1717 , novella, 1948
  • The Hanswurstenhaus , Roman, 1951
  • A heart burns in the dark , 1955
  • The wish garden , 1962

Editorial activity

  • How beautifully the May blooms for us. Spring and love songs from German poetry , 1940

literature

  • Monika Natter: Le culte de la maternity dans la litterature regionalist autrichienne des années 30. L'exemple de Maria Grengg. In: Nationalismes, féminismes, exclusions. Mélanges en l'honneur de Rita Thalmann , ed. v. Liliane Crips. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1994. pp. 485-496. ISBN 3-631-46453-3
  • Elisabeth Galvan: Mothers' Empire. Narrative prose from the 1930s. Dissertation Vienna 1986. Published as a book in: Stuttgarter Arbeit zur Germanistik Volume 229. Stuttgart 1994. Akademischer Verlag Heinz. ISBN 3-88099-233-9 .
  • Hans Frühwirth: Your love was for Krems. 100 Krems personalities from Gozzo to Wilhelm. Announcements of the Krems City Archives Volume 29. Krems Cultural Office 1997. ISBN 3-901664-01-9
  • Elisabeth Spitzer: Fine arts with Maria Grengg. Investigation of the novel "The Flight to the Green Lord" in the context of the national family and art magazine "Der getreue Eckart" . Thesis. University of Vienna 2010. http://othes.univie.ac.at/10006/1/2010-05-21_0001243.pdf

Web links

Commons : Maria Grengg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murray G. Hall, Gerhard Renner: Handbook of the bequests and collections of Austrian authors , p. 125
  2. ↑ a b Galvan: Mütter-Reich: On the German narrative prose of the thirties , 1994, p. 160
  3. ↑ a b c d Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 69ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  4. ↑ Grengg, Maria. "The great Austrian". In: Kindermann, Heinz (ed.). Return to the Reich. Greater German seal from Ostmark and Sudetenland 1866-1938 . Leipzig: Reclam, 1939. S. 147 f. The year 1935 is given on p. 522 at: Jarka, Horst. "On literary and theater politics in the 'corporate state'". In: Kadrnoska, Franz (ed.). Departure and decline. Austrian culture between 1918 and 1938 . Vienna / Munich / Zurich: Europaverlag, 1981. pp. 499–538.
  5. ↑ General report of the Reich Propaganda Main Office , Dept. II, May 5, 1938, archived copy ( memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / doewweb01.doew.at
  6. ↑ a b https://webarchiv.onb.ac.at/web/20160203201026/http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestaende_det.php?id=grengg
  7. ↑ Die Kindlmutter , p. 7.
  8. ↑ Die Kindlmutter , p. 120.
  9. ↑ Die Kindlmutter , p. 397ff.
  10. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-g.html
  11. ^ Maria Greng in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  12. ^ Website of the Landesmuseum Niederösterreich
personal data
SURNAME Grengg, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grengg, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian narrator and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Stein an der Donau , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1963
Place of death Rodaun , Vienna