Paula Grogger

Paula Grogger (portrait drawing by Emil Stumpp , 1931)

Bust of Paula Grogger (Gallery of Honor, Graz Castle )

Grogger family grave cemetery Öblarn

Paula Grogger (born July 12, 1892 in Öblarn ; † January 1, 1984 in Öblarn) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Paula Grogger was born as the daughter of the businessman Franz and his wife Maria Grogger in Öblarn in Styria . She attended from 1907 to 1912 in Salzburg teachers training college of the Ursuline in Salzburg. As one of the few women at the time, she passed the Austrian matriculation examination, the Matura . She then returned to Styria and taught handicrafts at some schools in the Ennstal until 1929 .

Her first novel Das Grimming Gate (1926) was a triumphant success and paints a picture of the Styrian landscape with the symbol of the Grimming Mountain . The style, so the criticism, is simple, dialect and yet powerful. Trained by Handel-Manzetti , Grogger's novel is still independent, with hearty humor, restrained tragedy and is set high above the usual local literature. The book has been translated and reprinted several times.

Paula Grogger belonged to the illegal Nazi association of German writers in Austria . After the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938, she paid homage to Adolf Hitler in the confessional book of German poets . However, when the Gestapo asked the District Administrator of Gröbming regarding Grogger's political stance , he replied on November 6, 1939:

“She never had anything to do with the National Socialist idea and did nothing to decide the popular struggle in Austria in favor of Greater Germany. [...] One thing became known from Berlin, according to which she had the opportunity to be introduced to the Fiihrer during the illegal period during a stay in Berlin, which she refused. [...] To this day, it has not contributed anything positive to National Socialism. "

In 1952 she was awarded the Peter Rosegger Prize of the Province of Styria. In 1966 she was appointed professor . In 1968 she was awarded the poet's stone shield of the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 because of being re-employed by the National Socialists . In addition, she received other honors, such as the Enrica Handel Mazzetti Special Prize , the Silver Archduke Johann Plaque and the Ring of Honor of the State of Styria.

The deeply religious woman, who was interested in folklore all her life, also made an outstanding contribution to amateur play .

In 1980 she stopped writing at the age of 88 and died at 91 in her house in Öblarn, which still serves as a museum today.

Works

1917 The Christkindl in Styria
1926 The Grimmingtor
1927 The carol singers , The parable of the weaver
1929/1977 robber legend

1932 The baby Jesus' skirt

1933 The play of the sun, moon and stars

1935 The praise stick

1937/1967 The wedding. A play by Prince Johann (a play about Archduke Johann )

1947/1962 farmer's year

1949 The Antichrist and our Lady

1954 poems

1958 The mother , the trip to Salzburg

1962 From my parade ice garden

1975 Late Matura or Pegasus im Joch

1977 Heavenly Birthday , Seven Legends , The Robber Legend
1980 The Paradeisgarten
1983 Childhood Story

Without time allocation:

The trip to Brixen , knitted circus world , the blessed youth , the best of life , children's scenes
The legend of the mother , The legend of the raven boy , A piece from my garden
The day is over (lyrics, wise and phrase: Lorenz Maierhofer )

Awards (excerpt)

1936 Austrian Cross of Merit for Art and Science and Art 1st Class
December 1961 Ring of Honor of the State of Styria
1968 Dichtersteinschild of the Dichterstein Offenhausen association, which was banned in 1999 because of being re-employed by the National Socialists

Web links

Commons : Paula Grogger - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Paula Grogger in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry about Paula Grogger in the Austria-Forum (biography)
Paula Grogger House. The state of Styria. Kultur Steiermark, November 21, 2013, accessed on January 21, 2014 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 198
^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 199-200.
^ Association of German writers Austria (ed.): Confession book of Austrian poets . Krystall Verlag, Vienna 1938.
↑ Bernhard A. Reismann: "Very Catholic and religiously set". A Gestapo request from the writer Paula Grogger from 1939. In: Blätter für Heimatkunde. ed. from the Historisches Verein für Steiermark , Volume 78, Issue 3/4 ISSN 0006-4459 pp. 85–92, here pp. 89ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Grogger, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Öblarn , Styria , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	January 1, 1984
Place of death	Öblarn , Styria , Austria

[Lux-1] Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 198

[2] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 199-200.

[3] Association of German writers Austria (ed.): Confession book of Austrian poets . Krystall Verlag, Vienna 1938.

[4] Bernhard A. Reismann: "Very Catholic and religiously set". A Gestapo request from the writer Paula Grogger from 1939. In: Blätter für Heimatkunde. ed. from the Historisches Verein für Steiermark , Volume 78, Issue 3/4 ISSN 0006-4459 pp. 85–92, here pp. 89ff.