Paula Preradović
Paula Preradović , married Molden (born October 12, 1887 in Vienna as Paula von Preradović ; † May 25, 1951 ibid) was an Austrian poet and writer . During the Second World War she was active in the resistance environment . Today she is best known as the author of the text of the Austrian national anthem .
Life
Born in Vienna as the granddaughter of the Croatian national poet and Austro-Hungarian officer Petar Preradović , she moved with her father Dušan Preradović (1854–1920), a historian who was stationed there as an Austro-Hungarian naval officer , and her mother Helene, nee. Freiin Falke von Lilienstein, when she was two years old, moved to Pola in Istria , the then main port of the Austro-Hungarian Navy . There and in Dalmatia , she grew up on the Adriatic. She had four siblings, including the writer Petar von Preradović (1891-1941). A nephew (about the eldest brother Ivo) was the historian and publicist Nikolaus von Preradovich .
Paula first attended the German-speaking marine elementary school in Pola and from 1900 to the Institute of the English Misses in St. Pölten in Lower Austria. It was there that she met Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti . She passed the state examination in modern languages and the Matura . She was interested in poetry from an early age , and from 1905 she took part in literary life.
In 1913 she began training as a nurse in Munich . After the beginning of the First World War , in 1914, she made herself available to the war hospital at the University of Vienna .
In 1916 she married the diplomat, journalist and historian Ernst Molden , who was editor of the Neue Freie Presse . The couple lived temporarily in Copenhagen and The Hague , from 1920 again permanently in Vienna and had two sons, Otto Molden and Fritz Molden .
In the 1930s it again approached Catholicism . According to the literary scholar Mirjana Stančić , she had a liberal outlook.
During the Second World War, the Austrian patriot and her husband were active in the area of resistance against National Socialism and took part in the formation of the “Provisional Austrian National Committee” (POEN). Her son Fritz in particular was an active member of the resistance.
After July 20, 1944 , she was arrested for the first time by the Gestapo , then released again. From March to April 1945, she continued to be detained. Originally, she was supposed to be deported to Mauthausen concentration camp , but an epidemic unexpectedly brought her release. After 1945 she published autobiographies about the last years of the war.
plant
Paula Preradović began to write poetry in her youth and published several volumes of poetry from the late 1920s, initially on the beauty of home; in her last volume of poetry but also about contemporary history. From the late 1930s onwards, prose works were also produced, especially the only and successful novel Pave and Pero . In it, the author processed parts of the correspondence between her grandfather Petar Preradović (Pero) and his first wife Paolina de Ponte (Pave), who came from an Italian- Istrian family.
In 1946, Preradović took part in the competition for a new Austrian national anthem at the request of the then Minister of Education, Felix Hurdes . The submitted her poem of the mountains land, land on the river was in agreement with her, after slight amendments by the federal government , on 25 February 1947 by the Council of Ministers to the text of the Austrian national anthem of the Republic of Austria explains.
On January 1, 2012, the federal law on the federal anthem of the Republic of Austria came into force, with which the federal anthem was not only raised to legal status for the first time, but also underwent a “ gender-fair change”. The line “Home are you great sons” was changed to “Home of great daughters and sons”, and the line “Einig let in brother choirs” was changed gender neutral to “Einig let in jubilation choirs”.
- Poetry
- Southern summer , Kösel / Pustet publishing house, Munich 1929
- Dalmatian sonnets , Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Berlin / Vienna / Leipzig 1933
- Praise to God in the mountains , Pustet publishing house, Salzburg / Leipzig 1936
- Knight, Death and the Devil , Austrian Publishing House, Innsbruck 1946
- prose
- A youth kingdom. The Neuland school settlement in Grinzing-Vienna (1938)
- Pave and Pero. Croatian novel (1940)
- Vienna Chronicle , 1945
- Hans Leifhelm (obituary in: Word and Truth 2, 1947)
- Complete works of a poet (obituary for Heinrich Suso Waldeck in: Word and Truth 3, 1948)
- Royal legend , 1950
- The temptation of Columba , 1951
- Diary , published 1995
- posthumous / collections
- Childhood by the Sea (fragmentary, autobiographical novel)
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Ernst Molden (ed.): Paula von Preradović: Collected poems . 3 volumes, Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, Innsbruck 1951 f.
- Volume 1: Lost Homeland . 1951.
- Volume 2: Land of Destiny . 1952.
- Volume 3: God and the Heart . 1952.
Honors
The poet rests in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 C, number 42) next to her husband. Her sons Otto Molden and Fritz Molden were later buried in the grave, which is located directly next to the crypt of the Federal Presidents .
A memorial plaque was placed on her former home in Oberdöbling , at Osterleitengasse 7, in the 19th district of Vienna, where she lived from 1924 until her death. In 1954, Preradovicgasse in Penzing , Vienna's 14th district, was named after her.
In 1996 a special post stamp was issued.
literature
- Preradović, Paula from. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2599–2600.
- Erika Mitterer : Two fatherlands in blood. Paula von Preradovic, the poet of the Austrian national anthem, was born 120 years ago . In: The literary wren No. 3/2007, pp. 6-9.
- Paula from Preradović . In: Mirjana Stančić : Buried Literature. The German-language poetry in the area of the former Yugoslavia from 1800 to 1945 (= literary history in studies and sources . Vol. 22). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-79460-8 , pp. 307-308.
- Preradović, Paula from . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia . Volume 8: Poethes - Schlueter . 2nd revised and expanded edition, KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 69.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paula Preradović in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Paula Preradović in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 245f.
- ↑ Mirjana Stančić : Buried Literature. The German-language poetry in the area of the former Yugoslavia from 1800 to 1945 (= literary history in studies and sources . Vol. 22). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-79460-8 , p. 307.
- ^ Austria in future also "home of big daughters". Constitutional Committee gives the green light to amend the national anthem. In: Parliament correspondence No. 1105 of the Austrian Parliament , November 22, 2011, accessed on December 12, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Preradović, Paula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Molden, Paula; Preradović, Paula from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1951 |
| Place of death | Vienna |