Michael Guttenbrunner

Michael Guttenbrunner (born September 7, 1919 in Althofen , Austria ; † May 12, 2004 in Vienna ) was an Austrian poet and writer .

Michael Guttenbrunner's grave

Life

Guttenbrunner, born as the son of a groom, also worked as a farmhand in his younger years before he joined the “Graphic Training and Research Institute” in Vienna in 1937. At the time of the National Socialists he was expelled from school because of his refusal to sing the Horst Wessel song . He was arrested two more times for “illegal activities for the banned Social Democrats” and stood before the court-martial three times , among other things for beating a Nazi officer, which, according to the tribunal, narrowly escaped execution. The fact that he was sentenced to death in 1944 - which was eventually converted into frontline probation - seems historically controversial.

Regardless of this, it is clear that Guttenbrunner harbored an anti-fascist attitude and a pronounced aversion to authorities throughout his life. Both find lasting expression in his literary works. After the war he was not one who wanted to forget the horrors of the war, as was often done in Austria, but he remembered it and became unpopular and controversial in public, although he only advocated it, not a Nazi criminal with the happy to treat forbearance there. Immediately after the war, he campaigned for the Austrian authors who fled the National Socialists. In 1956 he brought out a volume of poems ( Vom black wine ) by Theodor Kramer , who was still in exile in London and with whom he was friends. The self-stylization as a resister against the Nazi regime can hardly be maintained since the court martial files were found. Michael Guttenbrunner was a freemason .

Michael Guttenbrunner published poetry and prose since 1947. In addition to the lyrical production, the complex prose work Im Machtgehege , the first volume of which was published in 1976 and which was to grow to eight volumes from 1994 until his death, is the main focus of the author's work. In his precise work on the text, Im Machtgehege schult an appears Karl Kraus. Guttenbrunner established himself with this finely branched work that processed many references to become an important literary chronicler of contemporary history.

Since 1994, Michael Guttenbrunner's literary work has been maintained and looked after by Rimbaud Verlag in Aachen. The work edition published there now comprises 18 volumes. Guttenbrunner wrote his last text at the age of 84 for the Carinthian cultural magazine " DIE BRUECKE ".

He died in the Wilhelminenspital and was buried at the Heiligenstädter Friedhof (group A, row 3, number 161) in Vienna. His literary estate went to the Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research at the University of Klagenfurt , whose honorary doctorate Guttenbrunner had held since 1994.

family

Michael Guttenbrunner was married to the actress Maria Winnetou "Winni" Guttenbrunner (* 1926), daughter of Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and Carl Zuckmayer . They met in the company of Franz Theodor Csokor at Theodor Kramer's funeral , and they have a daughter together.

Guttenbrunner's older brother was the SPÖ politician Josef Guttenbrunner .

Awards

• 1954 Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry and Translation
• 1966 Austrian Promotion Prize for Literature
• 1975 Austrian Prize for Literature
• 1981 Literature Prize of the City of Vienna
• 1987 Culture Prize Winner of the State of Carinthia
• 1994 Honorary doctorate from the University of Klagenfurt
• 1994 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 1994 Great Gold Medal of Honor from the State of Carinthia
• 1995 Gold Medal of the City of Vienna
• 2004 Theodor Kramer Literature Prize for Writing in Resistance and Exile

The prestigious prize of the PEN Club Liechtenstein , which is awarded every two years and which Guttenbrunner should have received on Sunday, May 16, 2004, was awarded posthumously at the celebration in Schaan in Liechtenstein.

Works

prose

• Im Machtgehege I. 1976, Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89086-846-2 .
• Im Machtgehege II. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 1994, ISBN 978-3-89086-898-1 .
• In the power enclosure III. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 1997, ISBN 978-3-89086-866-0 .
• Im Machtgehege IV. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 1999, ISBN 978-3-89086-787-8 .
• In the power enclosure V. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89086-777-9 .
• In the power enclosure VI. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2002, ISBN 978-3-89086-718-2 .
• Im Machtgehege VII. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89086-693-2 .
• In the power enclosure VIII. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2004, ISBN 978-3-89086-671-0 .
• From the power enclosure. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89086-732-8 .
• Traces and remnants. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89086-725-0 .
• In the power enclosure. Works Volume 1. Ed. And with a comment by Helmuth A. Niederle. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85409-792-1 .

Poetry

• Political Poems, Vienna, Ephelant, 2001. ISBN 3-900766-15-0
• Black rods. (1947) 2004. New edition: Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag ISBN 978-3-89086-769-4
• Sacrificial wood (1954) 2009. New edition: Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag ISBN 978-3-89086-674-1
• Inconsistent poems. (1959) 2002. New edition: Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag ISBN 978-3-89086-746-5
• The long time (1965) 2008. New edition: Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag ISBN 978-3-89086-673-4
• The descent. (1975) 2005. New edition: Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag ISBN 978-3-89086-847-9
• Waste of light. (1995) 2000. New edition: Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag ISBN 978-3-89086-804-2
• Not entirely day and not entirely night either. Collected poems. Works Volume 2. Ed. And with a comment by Helmuth A. Niederle. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-85409-900-0 .

literature

• Klaus Amann / Eckart Früh (eds.): Michael Guttenbrunner. Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 1995, Ritter Verlag, ISBN 3-85415-171-3 .
• Manfred Müller / Helmuth A. Niederle (eds.): Michael Guttenbrunner. Texts and materials. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85409-426-5 .
• Christian Teissl: Paths into the absurd. On the poetry of Michael Guttenbrunner. Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2005, ISBN 978-3-89086-630-7 .
• Bernhard Albers (Ed.): Born in 1919. Michael Guttenbrunner, Hans Bender , Horst Krüger . Rimbaud Verlag, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89086-509-6 .
• Alexander Doent: Comments on the music at MG Friedrich Danielis: Hewn and stung. ; Friedrich Kurrent: MG and architecture ; Richard Wall: Arts and Crafts at MG In: Literature and Criticism 2009, H. 437/38: Michael Guttenbrunner. (Otto Müller Vlg., Salzburg 2009)
• Richard Wall: Michael Guttenbrunner's word workshops , photos and texts. With selected prose from the estate. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85409-509-5
• Bernhard Albers: Poetry and Truth. Experiment via Michael Guttenbrunner (= born 1919, vol. 2). 2010. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag ISBN 978-3-89086-497-6
• Bernhard Albers: Michael Guttenbrunner or the legend of his resistance against the Hitler regime, Aachen 2012
• Max Hölzer: Letters to Michael Guttenbrunner from twenty years (1952–1972), Aachen, Rimbaud 2012 ISBN 978-3-89086-510-2
• Vinzenz Jobst: Guttenbrunner. Rebellion and poetry. 2012. Klagenfurt: kitab Verlag ISBN 978-3-902585-86-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Guttenbrunner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Archive recordings with Michael Guttenbrunner in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (radio portraits, interviews)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christa Zöchling: Wrong notes. The embellished war biography of the poet Michael Guttenbrunner. in profile , July 14, 2009.
2. ↑ Statement of the PK Deserters (PDF; 20 kB)
3. ↑ Christa Zöchling: The true war heroes. How prominent Austrians opposed the Nazi terror , in profile , August 31, 2009
4. ↑ Bernhard Albers: Poetry and Truth. Aachen 2010, p. 9 ff.
5. ^ Christian Teissl: Paths into the absurd. Aachen 2005, p. 25 ff.
6. ^ Marcus G. Patka: Austrian Freemasons in National Socialism. Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78546-0 , p. 118
7. ↑ Michael Guttenbrunner: After fifty years . Speech in Klagenfurt on May 8, 1995, where MG had received an honorary doctorate from the local university six months earlier. In: FORVM . No. 496-498 . Vienna June 1995, p. 48 ( acceptance speech in the FORVM online version ).
8. ↑ See conversation with Ina Boesch in Reflexe on August 7, 2009 on Swiss radio DRS . ( For listening (28:25 min. In SRF Player ) ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note .; Accessed on May 4, 2013): In the conversation, Winnetou "Winni" Guttenbrunner tells about getting to know her husband Michael and explains the different versions of the names circulating about her: Her full name (registered in the birth register) is Maria Winnetou; She was called Winnetou throughout her life ; she calls herself (today) Winni; In her Austrian documents (customary in Austria) there is only the first first name Maria, with which she also signs, but which she says is "very foreign". In Saas-Fee (the family residence of the Zuckmayers in Switzerland) she called herself Guttenbrunner-Zuckmayer in accordance with Swiss customs.