Otto Stoessl

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Otto Stoessl (born May 2, 1875 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † September 15, 1936 there ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Otto Stoessl was the son of a Jewish doctor . His law studies at the University of Vienna he graduated in 1900 with the promotion of Doctor of Law from. He then worked as a civil servant at the Kaiser-Ferdinands-Nordbahn . After he had gone public with his own literary texts since 1898, from 1906 to 1911 he made contributions mainly of theoretical content to Karl Kraus ' torch ; from 1919 he wrote reviews of the Burgtheater's performancesfor the Wiener Zeitung . After his early retirement as a councilor in 1923, he devoted himself entirely to literature. In 1924 he and Robert Musil received the City of Vienna Prize for Literature.

Otto Stoessl's work includes novels , stories , essays , poems and plays . While his first dramatic attempts were still shaped by naturalism , in his later works he shifted to the - stylistically traditional - portrayal of the collapsed Austro-Hungarian monarchy . His main work is the novel Das Haus Erath, which deals with the decline of an Austrian family over several generations and has been compared with Thomas Mann's " Buddenbrooks ". After his death Otto Stoessl was quickly forgotten, and also benevolent hints z. B. von Hans Weigel did little to change this in the post-war period.

Otto Stoessl is the namesake of the Otto Stoessl Prize , founded by his son, the classical philologist Franz Stoessl , and awarded since 1982 .

In 1911/1912 he had Adolf Loos build a house for his family of three at Matrasgasse 20 in Hietzing. For years, friends of the house, including Oskar Laske , Ernst Krenek and Alban Berg, gathered in the dining room every first Sunday of the month .

In 1955 the Stoesslgasse in Vienna-Hietzing was named after him.

Works

  • Leile , Berlin 1898 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Dead Gods , Leipzig 1898 (together with Robert Scheu)
  • Waare , Leipzig 1898 (together with Robert Scheu)
  • Gottfried Keller , Berlin 1904
  • Children's spring , Berlin 1904
  • Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , Berlin 1906
  • In the Walls , Berlin 1907 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Sonja's last name , Munich [u. a.] 1908
  • Negro king's daughter , Munich [a. a.] 1910 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Allerleirauh , Munich [u. a.] 1911
  • Egon and Danitza , Munich [u. a.] 1911 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Morgenrot , Munich 1912 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • What use are the beautiful shoes to me , Munich [u. a.] 1913
  • Life form and poetry , Munich [u. a.] 1914 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Basem of the blacksmith , Vienna [u. a.] 1917
  • Unterwelt , Munich [u. a.] 1917
  • The Erath House , Leipzig 1920
  • The Shepherd as God , Vienna 1920
  • Errwege , Munich 1922
  • Sacrifice , Leipzig 1922
  • Johannes Freudensprung , Leipzig 1923
  • Sonnenmelodie , Stuttgart 1923
  • Adalbert Stifter , Stuttgart 1925
  • Path and sacrifice, symbol and reality , Vienna 1925
  • Night stories , Berlin 1926
  • Die Schmiere , Berlin 1927 (= first published in May 1921 by Velhagen & Klasings monthly books)
  • Antique motifs , Vienna 1928
  • Spanish Riding School , Vienna 1928
  • Human Twilight , Munich 1929
  • The questionable purchase or the lost head , Berlin 1930
  • Collected works , Vienna
    • 1. Arcadia , 1933
    • 2. Rogue stories , 1934
    • 3. Mind and Shape , 1935
    • 4th Creator , 1938
  • A loot , Weimar 1934
  • Nora, the vixen , Vienna 1934
  • Verse and prose , Vienna 1936
  • Der Kurpfuscher , Graz [u. a.] 1987
  • Correspondence , Vienna 1996 (together with Karl Kraus )

Editing

literature

  • Kurt Riedler: Otto Stoessl , Zurich 1939
  • Magda Maetz: Otto Stoessl. His life and his youthful works. Vienna, University, dissertation 1948.
  • Herta Mreule: Otto Stoessl's later creative period , Vienna 1948
  • Komelia Fritsch: The critic Otto Stoessl , Vienna 1985
  • Otto Stoessl , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 123–126
  • Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War. Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52178-9 , p. 256, 15th line from the bottom

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Stoessl  - Sources and full texts