Otto Baxa
Otto Baxa (born May 20, 1898 in Vienna , † May 19, 1982 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian writer.
Life
Baxa was born in Vienna as the son of a veterinarian and attended grammar school in Wiener Neustadt. During the First World War, he was taken prisoner in Italy in 1918 and attended university again from 1919. As a professor of German, French and philosophy, he teaches first in Rust , then in Eisenstadt , then in Wiener Neustadt. From 1929 to 1935 he was professor of German in Trapezund in Turkey . From 1939 he did military service in the Second World War and was taken prisoner by the French. Then he was a teacher at a private school in Switzerland . From 1979 Baxa lived again in Wiener Neustadt.
Publications
- Image and artist. A contribution to the metaphysics of style. Diss., University of Vienna, 1922.
- Raimund in Pottenstein. A romantic spectacle. 1936.
- Tulips and roses. Poetry. Translations. 1937.
- Duchess Wanda. Vorarlberg home game. 1952.
- Thumbling. Fairy tale opera. 1954.
- There are other works available as manuscripts.
Translations
- Peyami Safa : Between East and West. Translation from Turkish by Otto Baxa, Roman, Payne, Leipzig 1943.
literature
- Peter Schuster , Erich Sedlak , Peter Zumpf : Wiener Neustädter Literaturlexikon. Januskopf series of authors, literary circle of authors, Wiener Neustadt 1983, ISBN 2-900335-12-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baxa, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1982 |
| Place of death | Wiener Neustadt |