Otto Rommel

Otto Rommel (born June 12, 1880 in Mährisch Schönberg ; † September 6, 1965 in Salzerbad , municipality of Kleinzell / Lower Austria ) was an Austrian literary and theater historian.

Life

Rommel was a high school teacher in Teschen and Vienna . Together with Adolf Loos , Arnold Schönberg and Hans Kelsen , he taught at Eugenie Schwarzwald's girls' high school and was its director from 1916 to 1919. 1919–1937 he was in charge of the Federal Education Institute Vienna-Breitensee . Rommel edited historical-critical complete editions, a. a. by Ludwig Anzengruber and Johann Nestroy , and published sixty volumes in the Austrian Classics Library from 1908–1914. He researched the popular Viennese theater.

Rommel's overview presentation, Die Alt-Wiener Volkskomödie , published in 1952, is still one of the standard works on this subject today. In it Rommel valued the satirical Johann Nestroy compared to the theater poets Franz Grillparzer and Ferdinand Raimund , both of whom had earlier found their way into the Vienna Burgtheater as Nestroy .

To remonstrate about Rommel's affinity for Nazism , the (albeit biased even relevant) Theaterwissenschaftlerin expressed Margret Dietrich on 10 October 1952 in a letter to Heinrich Schnitzler , the son of the writer Arthur Schnitzler : "Rommel is politically absolutely integer, represented one and the same point of view from 1906 to 1952, clean and clear in all his actions and words. In the past few years he received the recognition award of the City of Vienna. " ( Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance 15948/17)

Awards

• 1952: Prize of the City of Vienna for the humanities
• 1960: Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna

Works

• Characteristics of the Viennese muse drama 1777–1796 . Dissertation, University of Graz, 1903 (handwritten)
• The Vienna Muses Almanac . 1906.
• The Austrian pre-march . 1931.
• Baroque tradition in the Austrian-Bavarian folk theater . 4 volumes, 1935–39
• The great characters of the old Viennese folk comedy . Hanswurst , Kasperl , Thaddädl , Staberl , Raimund and Nestroy. Bindenschild, Vienna 1946.
• Ferdinand Raimund . 1947.
• Viennese Renaissance. 1947
• The old Viennese folk comedy. Your story from the baroque world theater to Nestroy's death. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1952.
• Editor of: German-Austrian Classics Library. 48 volumes, 1908-14.
• Editor and introduction: Alt-Wiener Volkstheater. in 7 volumes.
  • Volume 1: KF Hensler : "Das Donauweibchen" , E. Schikaneder : "The Tyrolean Wastel" , JF Kringsteiner : "The bride in a tight spot ".
  • Volume 2: Josef Alois Gleich : “The musicians on the high market”, “Ydor, the wanderer from the water kingdom”, “The white hats”.
  • Volumes 3 and 4: Carl Meisl : "The ghost on the bastion", "The ghost in the Prater", "The story of a real scarf in Vienna"; "The kidnapping of Princess Europe", "The woman Ahndl", " The funny Fritz ".
  • Volumes 5 and 6: Adolf Bäuerle : “ The Citizens in Vienna ”, “Aline or Vienna in Another Part of the World”; “The Fiaker as Marquis”, “The false prima donna”, “The bad Lisel”.
  • Volume 7: Friedrich Kaiser : "The school of the poor", "The tailor as a poet of nature". Vienna, Teschen, Leipzig 1913.
• Editor, with Rudolf Latzke: Ludwig Anzengruber , Complete Works, 15 volumes, 1921–25.
• Editor, with Fritz Brukner : Johann Nestroy , Complete Works, 15 volumes, 1924–30.
• Editor: Ferdinand Raimund , Collected Works, 1962.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Rommel in the catalog of the German National Library