Otto Jungmair

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Otto Jungmair (born April 6, 1889 in Molln ; †  October 4, 1974 in Linz ) was an Upper Austrian writer and poet whose works are mainly written in the Upper Austrian Central Bavarian dialect. In addition, he engaged in philological research with Adalbert Stifter and, together with Albrecht Etz, published the dictionary on Upper Austrian vernacular .

Life

He was born in Molln in the Steyrtal as the son of a forester who worked for the forestry service of Count Lamberg, the former feudal lords of the region. He went to elementary school in Molln and then attended secondary school in Linz. He graduated from secondary school in Steyr from 1903 to 1907 . He stayed there after his school days and initially became an accountant in the local arms factory and later a bank clerk. During this time he was active as a writer in his spare time and published his Hoamatmeß around 1930 . He continued a family tradition, since his great-uncle Rudolf Jungmair was a well-known dialect poet. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he was unable to continue publishing because he initially had to work as an accountant for the newly founded Hermann Göring Works in Linz and was arrested by the Gestapo on August 11, 1939 . He was then taken to the Oranienburg / Sachsenhausen concentration camp for “custody” and later to the Dachau concentration camp . In 1942 he was dismissed, but committed to the German Labor Front . So he became head of the leisure studio in Linz, where he was entrusted with the artistic training of amateur groups and was also a consultant for folk culture and customs. In 1943 he suffered several strokes of fate, because first his daughter died and a short time later his son died as a soldier in Russia. When the air raids on Linz became more frequent, he fled to Altaussee , where he stayed until the end of the war.

After the war he was able to pursue his literary work again and from 1947 was finally active as a freelance writer. Numerous works by him appeared in the 1950s and 60s, but they also contained earlier and previously unpublished texts that were written before the war. In addition, he devoted himself more and more to linguistic studies, about the Upper Austrian dialect, about Adalbert Stifter, but also about Middle High German and Old Norse literature. He got involved with the Stelzhamerbund and the Stifter Society and worked on a dictionary of the Upper Austrian "Hoamatsproch". However, this work was only published posthumously in 1978 by Albrecht Etz.

Otto Jungmair was an honorary citizen of his home community Molln and was appointed professor hc in 1961. In 1965 he was awarded the poet's stone shield from the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 due to being re- employed by the National Socialists . In 1972 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art . He died on October 4th 1974 at the age of 85 in Linz.

Works

Dialect literature

  • D'Hoamatmeß. A mass song text in dialect, premiered in 1930.
  • The game from Helmbrecht-Moar. First performed in 1947, printed by Welsermühl, Wels 1959 (dialect adaptation of the Middle High German verse novella Meier Helmbrecht ).
  • Stoan and Stern. Poems. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House , Linz 1953.
  • Legends in Upper Austrian dialect. Oö. Landesverlag, Linz 1959.
  • Untá dá Lind'n. Poems and sayings by Walther von der Vogelweide translated into modern dialect, Upper Austria. Landesverlag, Linz / Ried im Innkreis 1964.
  • All kinds of cross heads from the country. Dialect poems, 1969.
  • Rhyming inconsistencies. Anthology, 1973.

High German works

  • Wounds and wonders. Poems. Oö. Landesverlag, Linz 1963 (with a cycle about Anton Bruckner and Olaf Aasteson's dream song ).

Research literature

  • Upper Austrian art life 1851–1931. Guide book of the Upper Austrian Art Association on the occasion of its eighty-year existence. Upper Austrian Art Association , Linz 1931.
  • Adalbert Stifter's years in Linz - a calendar. Stiasny, Graz / Vienna 1958.
  • Adalbert Stifter and the school reform in Upper Austria after 1848. In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz. Linz 1957, pp. 241–319 ( pp. 241–280 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, pp. 281–319 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  • Dictionary of Upper Austrian vernacular. Collected by Otto Jungmair, edited by Albrecht Etz, Stelzhamer-Bund, Linz 1978 (new edition: Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1989, ISBN 3-85214-388-8 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Jungmair: How I became Linz. In: Yearbook of the City of Linz 1954. Linz 1955, pp. 537–552 ( online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
personal data
SURNAME Jungmair, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Molln , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1974
Place of death Linz , Upper Austria, Austria