Paul Busson

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Paul Busson (born July 9, 1873 in Innsbruck , † July 5, 1924 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

Paul Busson's grave

Paul Busson's parents were Emma Busson, b. Ney, and the university professor and historian Dr. Arnold Busson . Paul was the oldest in a group of ten children, one of his brothers was the Montanist Felix Busson . He graduated from Graz in 1892 and studied medicine. After the volunteer year with the eighth hussars , he became an officer in 1897 and went to Galicia as a lieutenant . Deactivated due to an illness, he lived in Vienna from 1900, became editor of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt and wrote for Simplicissimus . Numerous journeys in his capacity as a journalist took him to Bosnia , Serbia and Bulgaria , and he also visited Italy , Albania , Sweden and Denmark . After he was given the management of the feature pages in the Tagblatt in 1914 , he was deployed as a reporter in various theaters of war during the First World War - based on his experience. After the end of the war he retired to a hunting estate in Neunzen in the Waldviertel because of a heart disease .

He worked as a dramatist and wrote historical novels with fantastic and mystical elements; In doing so, he processed fantastic topics such as the migration of souls ( The rebirth of Melchior Dronte ) or the werewolf motif ( The shot in the Hexenmoos ).

In 1955, Bussongasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

He was a member of the Corps Joannea Graz (1893) and Schacht Leoben (1924).

His grave is located in the area of ​​the honorary graves in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Works

  • 1901 poems
  • 1903 Glorious Heroes. Four dramatic ballads with a prelude
  • 1903 Ash Wednesday. Novellas
  • 1904 Azrael , novel
  • Defeated in 1905 , short stories
  • 1909 poor ghosts. Historical novellas
  • 1911 Nelson's Blood , short stories
  • 1913 Viennese moods. Essays
  • 1919 Strange Stories
  • 1919 The bad angel
  • 1920 From my youth. Memories and dreams from the old days
  • 1920 FAE A German novel
  • 1921 The rebirth of Melchior Dronte , also reprinted as Der Seelenwanderer
  • 1923 The fire hood , also fire on the glaciers. A novel from the time of the Tyrolean struggles for freedom of 1809
  • 1923 Colorful experiences , stories
  • 1923 Fanfares faded away
  • 1923 The shot in the Hexenmoos. The lure. King Kaspar. Three scary stories
  • 1924 Hunting and animal stories , with a foreword by Erwin Rainalter
  • 1927 New Years Eve. A summer story
  • 1930 Vitus Venloo. The story of a youth

filming

literature

  • EF Bleiler : Introduction to Paul Busson. In: Gustav Meyrink, The Golem, Paul Busson, The Man Who was Born Again. Two German Supernatural Novels. Dover Books, New York 1976, pp. Xviii-xxiv.
  • Robert N. Bloch: Paul Busson. In: Joachim Körber (Hrsg.): Bibliographisches Lexikon der Utopisch-Fantastischen Literatur. Corian, Meitingen. 18th result. June 1989, 4 pp. + 18 pp. Bibliography.
  • Aneta Jachimowicz: The Tyrolean author Paul Busson at the beginning of the First Republic . In: Messages from the Brenner Archive 36, 2017, pp. 65–82.
  • Ada Koellner-Ther: Paul Busson as the narrator. Dissertation University of Vienna 1941.
  • Harro Heinz Kühnelt: Paul Busson: A forgotten Austrian writer. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. 70, 1990, ISSN  0379-0231 , pp. 135-146.
  • Kamilla Embarrassing: Paul Busson. A monograph. Dissertation University of Vienna 1932.
  • Franz Rottensteiner : The "soul wanderer" Paul Busson. In: Franz Rottensteiner: In the laboratory of visions. Notes on the fantastic literature. 19 articles and lectures from the years 2000–2012 , Verlag Dieter van Reeken, Lüneburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-940679-72-7 , pp. 113–131.
  • Ingeborg Vetter: The legacy of the "Black Romanticism" in the German Decadence. Studies on the “horror story” around 1900. Secondary literary series Volume 51, Fantasia 178. First German Fantasy Club eV, Passau 2004, pp. 99–113.
  • Marianne Wünsch: The model of 'rebirth' to 'new life' in narrative literature 1890–1930. In: Karl Richter, Jörg Schönen (Ed.): Classic and Modern. The Weimar Classic as a historical event and challenge in the cultural-historical process (Walter Muller Seidel on his 65th birthday). Metzler, Stuttgart 1983, pp. 379-408.
  • Ernst Alker :  Busson, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 77 ( digitized version ).
  • Busson Paul. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 131.

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Busson  - Sources and full texts
Wikiquote: Paul Busson  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 49 , 99; 94 , 191
  2. ↑ viennatouristguide: Dr. Paul Busson , accessed October 13, 2018
  3. ↑ contemporary review
personal data
SURNAME Busson, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1924
Place of death Vienna