Oscar Bendiener

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Oscar Bendiener , also modernized Oskar Bendiener , (born March 6, 1870 in Brno , † January 17, 1940 in Vienna ) was an Austrian playwright , journalist , writer and railway official.

Life

He was the son of the Brno merchant Gottlieb Bendiener and his wife Helene nee Popper. After attending grammar school, Oscar Bendiener a. a. Law at the University of Vienna . There he received his doctorate in 1897 for Dr. jur. In the following year he gained practical experience as a lawyer at a court, and in 1899 he took over a law firm.

In 1901 he joined the Northwest and Northern Railway as an official. In his spare time he worked as a journalist and writer from 1903, specializing in dramas. In 1922 he resigned from the railroad service as senior railway adviser and went into civil service retirement. Then he devoted himself increasingly to writing and journalism.

family

Oscar Bendiener married Rudolfine (* 1873) born Stern on May 7, 1902, the daughter of Markus and Henriette Stern from Orlan in Austria-Silesia.

Fonts (selection)

  • The judge , 1903.
  • Silhouettes , 1904.
  • The profession and the modern drama . In: Die Waage 7 (1904), No. 33, pp. 751ff.
  • The distance. Railway drama in three acts , 1906.
  • The Pressed Lord , 1909.
  • The Unknown , 1912.
  • The renegade , 1920.
  • Dalilah , 1923.

Some of his plays were performed at the Raimund and Volkstheater in Vienna.

Film adaptations

On March 15, 1912, the premiere of the first large (silent) film from Austrian production , based on the crime drama The Unknown by Oscar Bendiener, took place in Vienna . Directed by Luise Kolm .

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 93.
  • Hans Giebisch, Gustav Gugitz: Bio-Bibliographisches Literaturlexikon Austria from the beginnings to the present . Hollinek, Vienna 1963, p. 49.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Ice Gray: Oscar Bendiener died . In: Aufbau, Vol. 6, No. 10 of March 8, 1940, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Bendiener, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bendiener, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright, journalist, writer and railway official
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1940
Place of death Vienna