Ottokar Janetschek

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Tomb at the cemetery in Perchtoldsdorf

Ottokar Janetschek (born April 30, 1884 in Heiligenkreuz , Lower Austria; † September 27, 1963 in Vienna-Mariahilf ) was a railway inspector and writer.

Live and act

Ottokar Janetschek came from Heiligenkreuz. His father was a master blacksmith in a house not far from the monastery that still stands today and is known as the Alte Schmiede (house number 22). He attended school as a choirboy in Heiligenkreuz Abbey , where he graduated from high school . In the course of his musical training he also learned the violin and organ . He completed his law studies at the University of Vienna while working for the Federal Railroad . In the inter-war period, he advanced from a railway official to a federal railway central inspector.

His writing goes back to a meeting with Peter Rosegger in 1906 in Semmering . In the mid-1920s he began working for newspapers alongside his railroad job. As a writer, he published 18 biographical and historical novels. The most famous novel that is still published today is Der Raxkönig : He portrays Georg Hubmer heroically as a lumberjack and alluvial master. Hubner, who only became known as Raxkönig after the success of the Janetschek novel, was responsible for the establishment of a Protestant school and chapel and in this context a particularly socially minded employer for hundreds of working-class families.

Janetschek married the officer's widow Irene Borst and settled in Perchtoldsdorf in 1938 . He died in Vienna and was buried in Perchtoldsdorf.

Works

  • Mozart, an artist's life (1924)
  • The Titan (Beethoven; 1927)
  • Schubert's Life Novel (1928)
  • The Duke of Reichstadt (1929)
  • The Napoleon builder (1930; Semmering Railway)
  • Sobieski. Crusade to Vienna (1934)
  • The Rax King (1941)
  • Emperor Franz Josef (1949)
  • The King and His Master (1952)
  • The prima donna (1955)

Awards

Appreciation

After some of his novels were written in his last place of residence in Perchtoldsdorf (Dr. C. Pirquet-Straße 44), a street was named after him in 1978.

literature

  • Walter Kleindel: The great book of the Austrians . 4500 person representations in words and pictures, names, dates, facts. With the collaboration of Hans Veigl . Vienna: Kremayr & Scheriau 1987

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Mitterwenger / Gregor Gatsch Riedl: Perchtoldsdorfer Straßenlexikon , 2004, ISBN 3 901 316 20 5 , p. 74

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personal data
SURNAME Janetschek, Ottokar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian railway inspector and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligenkreuz (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1963
Place of death Vienna