Otto Guem

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Otto Guem (* 6. April 1899 in Brunico , † 6. May 1976 in Mauthausen ) was from Tyrol originating Austrian jurist and author .

Live and act

He was born as the son of the spouses Wendelin and Maria Guem, attended the Franciscan high school in Bozen and did military service in the 4th Tyrolean Kaiserjägerregiment during the First World War . In 1919 Guem began studying law at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck and obtained his doctorate in 1923. He then worked as a journalist, headed the “Pustertaler Bote” in Bruneck and, after the latter was banned by the fascist administration in 1927, joined the editorial team of the fascist party newspaper “ Alpenzeitung ”. He also worked in notary offices in Bruneck and Bozen until 1939 . In 1940, following the South Tyrolean option, he moved to Linz , worked as a public notary in Mauthausen and lived there from July 1, 1940.

He was a member of the Mühlviertel artists 'guild and from 1963 to 1968 president of this artists' association.

Works

His literary work includes stories, novellas and poems:

  • Barbara Ingram. A Bozen novel. First edition 1935, new edition Linz 1947.
  • Upper Austria. Künstlerbund (Ed.): South Tyrolean stories. Linz 1952.
  • The homecoming of Andreas Rainer. Novel from the mountains. Awl 1953.
  • Silvia Vergeiner. Roman, Pfriem 1954.
  • Killian Lanzinger. South Tyrolean mountain farmer novel. Munich 1956.
  • Josef Seeber. A picture of life. Innsbruck / Munich 1967.
  • The people from the Psennerhof. A homeland novel from South Tyrol. Wuerzburg 1974.
  • numerous articles in Tyrolean daily and weekly newspapers and magazines

literature

Information about Otto Guem and his literary work is given in several dictionaries and other publications:

  • Hans Giebisch, Gustav Gugitz (Hrsg.): Bio-bibliographical literature lexicon of Austria. Vienna 1964, p. 127.
  • Herbert Zeman (ed.): History of literature in Austria. Graz 1999, p. 199.
  • Nina Schröder: The folk writers in the service of the cliché. In: Gottfried Solderer (Ed.): The 20th Century in South Tyrol, Volume II: 1920–1939, Fascist ax and swastika. Bozen 2000, p. 246.
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Volume XIII, 2009, pp. 44f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Lechner: "The conquest of foreigners": Provincial fascism in South Tyrol 1921–1926. Wagner, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 978-3-7030-0398-1 , pp. 364–365.
  2. ^ Letter to the readers of the Mühlviertler Heimatblätter on his election as president of the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde, 1963 ( online (PDF; 1.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  3. ^ Carl Hans Watzinger: Dr. Otto Guem - His life and work (On the 65th birthday of the writer). 1964 ( online (PDF; 1.5 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  4. ↑ a b Otto Guem. In: uibk.ac.at. Lexicon Literature in Tyrol, accessed on July 18, 2020 (short biography, books, articles and secondary literature).
personal data
SURNAME Guem, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Brunico
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1976
Place of death Mauthausen