Otto Hauser (Author)

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Otto Hauser (born August 22, 1876 on Gut Dijaneš near Vrbovec , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † May 26, 1944 in Blindendorf ( Lower Austria )) was an Austrian writer and translator.

Life

Hauser began studying at the Technical University in Vienna ; but soon moved to the University of Vienna to study oriental languages and Protestant theology . Hauser did not finish his studies with a degree in any of these subjects.

Thanks to the support of the journalist Theodor Herzl , Hauser was able to make his debut with a few stories in the features section of the Neue Freie Presse during his studies . During this time he also began to make a name for himself as a translator. His first major work was a selection of poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti . In 1911 he was hired by the publisher Alexander Duncker ; Hauser worked on numerous adaptations for his publisher, which appeared until 1924 in the From Foreign Gardens series. He published in part under the pseudonym Ferdinand Büttner .

He took part in the First World War as an Austro-Hungarian soldier .

Worked as a translator and racial theorist

Hauser translated almost 100 volumes of poetry from various languages ​​into German, including English ( Algernon Swinburne , Oscar Wilde and others), French ( Paul Verlaine , Charles Baudelaire and others), Italian ( Francesco Petrarca , Dante Alighieri and others) and Chinese ( Li Tai Bo ) Poet.

Hauser's translations of Don Quixote ( Miguel de Cervantes ), the Divine Comedy and the Psalms appeared in large editions.

From the beginning of the century until the 1930s he published numerous racial and pseudo-historical discussions, treatises and indexes such as Runen-Gedichte (1908), Die Teutons in Europa (1916), Genie und Rasse (1917-1922), Der blond Mensch (1921) ), Life and Drifting in Primeval Times (1921), Customs of Primeval Times (1924), Rasselehre (1925), Rassebilder (1925), Germanic Faith (1926), The Great Central European Urrace (1928), Race and Philosophy (1932), The Rasse der Juden (1933) and anti-Semitic inflammatory pamphlets such as Jews and Germans (1930) or The Jews and Half-Jews in German Literature (1933). In 1934 he published a poem in the magazine Rasse und Politik with the verse: " German youth will be blond again for me, // Let blue eyes shine through with rays // Inner fire, the true sky shine ".

Works (selection)

Poetry introductions and translations

  • Belgian poetry from 1880 to 1900. A study and translations . Baumert & Ronge, Grossenhain 1902.
  • Dutch poetry from 1880 to 1902. A study and translations . Baumert & Ronge, Grossenhain 1902.
  • Danish poetry from 1880 to 1900. A study and translations . Baumert & Ronge, Großenhain 1904.
  • Chinese poetry . Brandus publishing house, Berlin 1921.
  • Japanese poetry . Brandus publishing house, Berlin 1921.
  • William Shakespeare's sonnets. Embassy publishing house, Vienna 1931.

Racial theory

  • Race and race issues in Germany . A. Duncker, 1915.
  • Genius and Race I. Antiquity II. Italy . A. Duncker, 1917/1922.
  • Atlantis. The end of a world. Race epic in 20 songs. A. Duncker, 1920.
  • The blond person . A. Duncker, 1921.
  • Race and Politics . A. Duncker, 1922.
  • Breed breeding . G. Westermann, 1924.
  • Race and Morality . A. Duncker, 1924.
  • Race and culture . G. Westermann, 1924.
  • Race theory . G. Westermann, 1925.
  • Breed pictures . G. Westermann, 1925.
  • Race and health . G. Westermann, 1925.
  • Pure lifestyle . G. Westermann, 1925.
  • Race and Philosophy . n.a., 1932.
  • The race of the Jews. What a shame, 1933.
  • Race and Protestantism. What a shame, 1933.
  • The light from the north. A book of worldview . 1935.
  • History of Judaism . A. Duncker, 1935.

Novels

  • The new Jerusalem. A Jewish novel . Publishing house Bonz, Stuttgart 1905
  • The Gessner family . Publishing house Bonz, Stuttgart 1909

as editor

  • From strange gardens . Duncker publishing house, Weimar 1911–1921
  • History of Western literature before the World War

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 224.
personal data
SURNAME Hauser, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Büttner, Ferdinand (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Dijaneš , Croatia
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1944
Place of death Blindendorf , Lower Austria