Otto König (writer)

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Otto König (born January 13, 1882 in Vienna ; † November 10, 1932 there ) was an Austrian writer , poet and editor .

life and work

Otto König, born in Vienna in 1882, first worked as a simple worker in a factory before he was able to work his way up to the publishing editor at the S. Fischer and Ullstein publishing houses in Berlin . During the First World War he worked as a war correspondent in German services. In 1919 he finally acquired the magazine Widerhall in Innsbruck and also acted as its editor until 1924 . From 1925 until his death in 1932 he worked as an editor and theater critic for the Austrian daily newspaper Neues Wiener Journal .

King's first writings were published in 1905 in the Tyrolean newspaper Der Scherer . His first own work as a writer then appeared in 1915 under the title Glocken im Sturm by Cotta-Verlag in Stuttgart . This poetry publication drew further volumes of poetry with it. A year later the Georg Müller Verlag in Munich published the volume Voice of the Soul and in 1918 the Innsbrucker K. K. Österr. Military widows and orphans fund under the title Heimat in Not another volume of poems underlaid with pictures by the well-known Austrian military painter Hugo von Bouvard . In 1916, the experience report Comrades from Isonzo was published by August Scherl- Verlag in Berlin . In 1920, another volume of Otto Koenig's experience reports, entitled The Germans of Palestine in English Captivity: Memories at Strom-Verlag in Dresden, joined. King's poems have also been published in anthologies and magazines, including 1921 in the anthology Christmas greetings - a collection of the most beautiful Christmas poems from old and new times , alongside contributions by other poets such as Ludwig Thoma , Georg Busse-Palma , Theodor Storm or Martin Greif .

Otto König also wrote under the pseudonym André Flisseau .

Fonts (selection)

Single volumes

  • "Bells in the Storm", (poetry), Cotta-Verlag , Stuttgart, 1915
  • "Voice of the Soul", (poetry), Georg Müller Verlag , Munich, 1916
  • “Comrades from Isonzo”, (experience report), August Scherl, Berlin, 1916
  • “Heimat in Not”, (poetry), KK Österr. Military Widows and Orphans Fund, Innsbruck, 1918
  • "The Germans of Palestine in English Captivity: Memories", (experience report), Strom-Verlag , Dresden, 1920

Contributions to anthologies

  • “Christmas greetings - a collection of the most beautiful Christmas poems from old and new times”, (anthology), Hermann Beyer & Sons, Langensalza, 1921 edited by August Lomberg

literature

  • Otto König. In: Nicolas Detering, Michael Fischer, Aibe-Marlene Gerdes (Ed.) : Popular war poetry in the First World War. , Waxmann Verlag , 2013, p. 59

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto König. In: Richard Hörmann (Ed.) Ferdinand Ebner - Mühlauer Tagebuch: 23.7.-28.8.1920. , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna, 2001, p. 163
personal data
SURNAME King, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flisseau, André (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, poet and editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1932
Place of death Vienna , Austria