Piero Rismondo

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Piero Rismondo (born February 15, 1905 in Trieste , † February 9, 1989 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) was a writer, theater director, director and journalist.

Life

Piero's parents were Karoline Flohr and Antonio Rismondo, owners and general director of the Austrian steamship company “Navigatione Fratelli Rismondo”, which later became the shipping company “Dalmatia”. Piero grew up in Vienna and began his journalistic career in the 1920s.

Rismondo's piece “Grillparzer. Five old ones from an Austrian drama ”(new version in 1947 under the title“ Der Herr Hofrat. Five acts from the life of Grillparzer ”) was shown in 1936 in the theater“ Die Komödie ”in Johannesgasse (later the“ Insel ”, today's Metro-Kino ) premiered with actors from the Volkstheater , which Rismondo had written with the intention of giving a kind of Austrian diagram in a time of growing threat to Austria from National Socialism using the example of some stations in the life of the Austrian poet Franz Grillparzers . This is also indicated by the original subtitle, “… from an Austrian drama”. With this in mind, some figures were synthesized into symbols (the baron , the councilor ) and some anachronisms were deliberately constructed.

From 1938 Rismondo lived in emigration , from 1945 to 1952 he was acting director and director of the Teatro Verdi in Fiume ( Rijeka ), Croatia , and from 1952 he lived again in Vienna.

Rismondo was considered an “ anti-fascist from the very beginning”, “ Old Austrians ”, “ doyen of Viennese theater critics”. "Piero, il Grande" was called Piero Rismondo in the press , of which he was cultural editor and head of the cultural department from 1954 to 1978. From 1954 to 1961 he was a culture and literary editor there, from 1961 to 1970 a theater critic and columnist . Until his death in 1989, Rismondo wrote theater reviews for the theater magazine Die Bühne . The last review appeared at the premiere of Heldenplatz by Thomas Bernhard .

Rismondo was the perfect translator of Italo Svevo , whom he made known in the German-speaking world, as well as of Luigi Pirandello , Alberto Moravia and Carlo Goldoni .

Works

  • “ Grillparzer . Five old people from an Austrian drama ”1936 (premiere in the“ Komödie ”in Johannesgasse)
  • Raimund , 1937;
  • The Herr Hofrat , 1947 (new version by Grillparzer , EA at the Vienna Volkstheater)
  • The Invisible People , 1947;
  • Michaelerplatz , 1966
  • Incursions and Failures , 1978 (essays);

Translations

  • Italo Svevo
    • Zeno Cosini
    • A man is getting older - Senilita
    • One life - Una vita
    • Short sentimental journey - Cortlo viaggio sentimentale, 1949
    • The novella about the good old man and the beautiful girl - La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla, 1954

Awards

literature

  • To feel the pulse of the word at the moment. 1999, (features, reviews and articles, edited by WA Greinert)
  • Personalities of Europe. Austria, Iatas AG, Lucerne Zurich, 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Piero Rismondo: Four Directorates 1945–1979. In: The new people's theater . Festschrift, Vienna 1981.
  2. ↑ Paulus Manker : Search for traces. The theater man Gustav Manker . Amalthea, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0 .
  3. ↑ Piero Rismondo: The time to feel the pulse of the word ... Österr. Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85437-164-0 .
  4. ↑ Invitation: "First award" in the Günther Anders estate, Austrian Literature Archive of the Austrian National Library (ÖLS 237/04)
personal data
SURNAME Rismondo, Piero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1989
Place of death Klagenfurt am Wörthersee