Peter Paul Rainer (poet)

Peter Paul Rainer , also Paul Rainer (born August 10, 1885 in Innichen , Austria-Hungary , † March 2, 1938 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia ) was a Tyrolean poet and writer as well as teacher and director of the high school in Reichenberg.

Life

Born as the son of the businessman Peter Paul Rainer, he was the youngest of nine children. Three brothers had already died in childhood, so that Paul Rainer, as he later called himself, was the only son of the Rainer couple along with five daughters. The house where Peter Paul Rainer was born still exists in Innichen.

He studied at the humanistic high school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch . Despite his father's wish that he should become a businessman, and that of his mother, who saw him as a clergyman, Paul Rainer studied German studies in Innsbruck from 1904 after graduating from high school and German and classical philology in Vienna from 1907 . He also appeared in Innichen as a keynote speaker on the birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph on August 18, which was celebrated annually with torchlight procession and serenades in the then already important tourist resort of Innichen . Rainer also played theater here and hiked through the Sexten Dolomites .

After receiving his doctorate in 1911, he first taught in Vienna and Znaim , then from 1914 at the state high school in Reichenberg. On August 8, 1914 in Kitzbühel, he married the daughter of the Senate President Dr. Heinrich Freiherr von Reissig, Emma Hedwig Reissig from Brno († October 29, 1920). With her he had three daughters: Maria, Ilse and Erika. Above all, Rainer told his eldest daughter a lot about his homeland and spoke to her in the Pustertal dialect. He also took her to Innichen with him to show her everything he had told her so often about.

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Anny Engelmann , Paul Rainer: The Laughing Peter (1927)

Rainer wrote numerous poems , short stories (in Reimmichl's Volkskalender , in the St. Kassian-Kalender , in Der Schlern , in the Dolomites , in the Volksbote , in the Innsbrucker Nachrichten , in the Südtiroler and in the Reichenberger Zeitung ), novels and children's books, many of them in his His work was an expression of his love of home. With one exception, the publication of his independent works did not begin until 1920, the year his wife died. He began with memories of his homeland, but from 1927 wrote almost exclusively children's books.

Both the community library of San Candido and the street in which the house where he was born bears his name.

Many of his children's books, e.g. B. the Lachpeterl or the Maienliesl, were illustrated by Anny Engelmann , who signed her pictures with "Suska".

Fonts

• My probationer (1919)
• Unterm Haunold (1920, new edition 2009 published by the Innichen Education Committee)
• Legends from the Puster Valley (1921)
• The Maienliesl (1923)

  Czech translation: Májová panenka

• Tyrolean Spring (1924)
• The Laughing Peter (1927)

  Czech translation: Smíšek

• Peter the Dolomites (1937)
• The Sparpeterl (1937)
• Adventure in Bohemia
• My probationer
• Little Hermann goes through the Christmas forest
• Playmates. A picture book
• The lucky guy
• The city on the Neisse. (Illustrated by Oskar Rosenberger)

The Maienliesl

Content: The story of Maienliesl is the romantic, middle-class childhood story of an adolescent girl. The story begins in the (prenatal) “Himmelswiese”. There Maienliesl tells God that she wants to go to earth - that is, to be born - as soon as possible, a wish that is granted to her. With the help of a star horse and a stork, which she hands over to her mother, she finally arrives at her future home, where she grows up safe and sound.

In her childhood she discovered an ideal world. She meets the chimney sweep and the baker. The garden gnome admonishes them to be patient in spring, but encourages them to harvest the ripe fruits in summer. The last two chapters are about how spring drives away winter and how Liesl grows up and falls in love.

The character of the Maienliesl is not very individual. You can say that she is a well-bred and curious girl, but this should probably apply to all girls of the time, so that one can assume that she was designed as a figure of identification for all young readers.

Style and presentation: The book is designed as a children's book in terms of both narrative style and illustrations. Although the time it was written can be dated to the beginning of the 20th century (cf. Lifetime and other works by the author), the work can be assigned to the literary Biedermeier period. The text is printed in black on the left, with black and white drawings between the individual paragraphs. On the right side there are colorful illustrations by "Suska" (Anny Engelmann). Other books by the author are illustrated in the same way, e.g. B. the "Laughing Peterl".

The book was available in the FRG in the years after the Second World War . A version in Czech appeared u. a. 1926 in the Czech language (Rainer Pavel: Májová panenka). In the 1945 edition published in Liberec , the author Dr. František Páta called, presumably this is the translator of the book.

The German version is exhibited along with other works in the San Candido municipal library.

literature

• Egon Kühebacher :  Rainer Paul (Peter Paul). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 398.

Web links

Commons : Paul Rainer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Paul Rainer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ foreword by Herbert Watschinger to Paul Rainer , bottom Haunold, edition of 2009.