Max Stefl

Max Maximilian Franz Josef Oskar Stefl (born September 15, 1888 in Nuremberg , † October 14, 1973 in Munich ) was a German German studies scholar and librarian .

Life

Max Stefl came on September 15, 1888 as the son of the Regensburg high school professor Franz Paul Stefl and Maria Josefine Alberta Stefl, nee. Beringer, to the world. He had a sister.

From 1894 to 1898 he attended elementary school, in 1907 he passed the Abitur at the Royal Humanistic Gymnasium in Regensburg . From 1907 to 1914 he studied German and classical philology at the University of Munich , where he passed the state examination. On May 9, 1924, he did his doctorate at the University of Freiburg under Friedrich Wilhelm with a thesis on contributions to the teaching of the verbal composition with “an-” in Middle High German .

From 1909 to 1913 Stefl already worked in the library of the German Department. In 1914 Stefl became a laborer at the Munich University Library . From 1918 he was a librarian at the local state library , where he passed the specialist examination for the higher library service in 1919.

In 1926 he married Magda Maria Ostermeir. Stefl had been friends with Theodor Haecker , Josef Hofmiller , Mechtilde Lichnowsky and Karl Kraus since the 1930s .

time of the nationalsocialism

Although he had belonged to the German Social Party from 1911 to 1913 , he openly rejected the Nazi regime . At Rudolf Kummer's instigation , he was therefore dismissed as a librarian on April 1, 1934 due to the law to restore the civil service . For a short time he found a job at Oldenbourg Verlag , otherwise he lived on archival commissions - in the spring of 1940, for example, he organized the theater archive of the German Theater in Prague - and odd jobs .

Together with his wife, Stefl was arrested by the Gestapo on October 23, 1941 , on suspicion of having listened to foreign radio stations at his lodger Hans Leipelt . The Stefl couple were released on November 12, 1943, and Leipelt were executed in January 1945. The Stefls lost their Munich apartment in a bomb attack that same month.

post war period

In 1945 Stefl worked as an advisor on book trade matters for the Allied command and took part in denazification and reconstruction as an appraiser in court proceedings. In 1947 Stefl returned to the civil service as a librarian; In 1949 he was retired at his own request for health reasons.

In 1960 Stefl received the title of honorary professor from the Austrian Federal President, and in February 1962 the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . Max Stefl died in Munich on November 14, 1973. His grave can be found in the Perlacher Forst cemetery on Stadelheimer Straße.

Working for Adalbert Stifter

In 1919 Max Stefl and Max Scherrer published the first complete version of the novel Der Nachsommer by Adalbert Stifter since the first edition . This was followed by editions of Stifter's stories in the respective original and final versions, as well as further late summer editions. He had been a member since 1925 and became an honorary member of the Adalbert Stifter Society in Vienna in 1943. From 1932 Stefl worked with Wilhelm Kosch on a comprehensive bibliography of the poet.

Stefl published the reading book designed by Stifter and Johann Aprent for schools to promote human education . From 1939 to 1942 he edited Stifter's collected works in seven volumes, which were reprinted in 1959.

In 1946 Stefl founded the Adalbert Stifter Society, of which he became the first chairman, and published its series of publications. Stefl's edition of Stifter's stories in the original version appeared in three volumes from 1950–1952. From September 6 to 25, 1955, Stefl organized an exhibition in Munich's Prinz-Carl-Palais on the occasion of Stifter's 150th birthday. In 1960 he edited Adalbert Stifter's late stories . His correspondence with Arno Schmidt from the years after 1960 about his donor reception is also known.

Others

Max Stefl was a member of the Association for the Protection of German Writers , the German Academy for Language and Poetry , the German PEN Club , the Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria in Linz, the Adalbert Stifter Society in Vienna and the Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime . Since 1966 he was a board member of the Bavarian Writers' Association (Group 50) in Munich.

Works

• Contributions to the teaching of verbal composition with “an-” in Middle High German . Diss. Masch, Freiburg 1924
• (Ed.) Heinrich Reitzenbeck: Adalbert Stifter. Biographical sketch. Alber, Munich 1948
• (with Wilhelm Kosch :) Adalbert Stifter as a person, artist, poet and educator. Habbel, Regensburg 1952
• (Ed.) Adalbert Stifter: Stories in the original version. 4 vol., Kraft, Augsburg 1952–1962
• (with Wilhelm Kosch :) Adalbert Stifter Bibliography. Adalbert Stifter Society, Munich 1953
• (with Johanna Freiin von Herzogenberg and Hans Reuthe :) Adalbert Stifter. Exhibition for the 150th birthday (catalog). Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich 1955
• (Ed.) Adalbert Stifter: Works. 5 vols., Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt undated [1963]
• Correspondence with Arno Schmidt, in: Arno Schmidt: Correspondence with colleagues. Edited by Gregor Strick. Suhrkamp. Frankfurt 2007.

literature

• Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1794-1795.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Literature by and about Max Stefl in the catalog of the German National Library