Othmar Rieger

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Othmar Rieger (born February 22, 1904 in Hartberg ; † February 10, 1966 there ) was an Austrian German scholar , teacher , poet and storyteller .

Life

Born as the son of an estate manager, he attended an officer 's student at a military lower secondary school of the monarchy and then the federal educational institute in Vienna-Breitensee , where he graduated in 1922. He studied philosophy , German and English in Vienna . During his studies in 1922 he became a member of the Ostmark Vienna fraternity . After his studies he became a middle school teacher in Laa an der Thaya . On May 1, 1938 , he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 6.225.715). From 1938 to 1945 he was the director of the secondary school in Amstetten . In 1944 he took part in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Soviets and taken to the Auschwitz reception camp , where he wrote the poems Die Gemsteinlegende . Returning home in 1945, he took over the management of the Hartberg estate from his father. Otto Hofmann-Wellenhof made it possible for him to appear on the radio . He also worked as an employee of Austrian and German newspapers.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Shadow path and sun path. Poems Vienna 1943.
  • Court of Fire Ballads. Graz, Vienna 1955.
  • Brünhild. Poetry in seventeen songs. Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1966.
  • It's a city. Lyric folk book. 3rd edition, Hartberg 1967.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 579-580.

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personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Othmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanist, teacher, poet and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartberg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1966
Place of death Hartberg