Richard Kühnelt

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Richard Kühnelt (born July 11, 1877 in Vienna , † October 6, 1930 near Dresden ) was an Austrian writer who worked primarily as a playwright .

Life

Richard Kühnelt came from an old Austrian civil servant family; his father, Anton Kühnelt (1842–1898), had been the general director of the Nordwestbahn . After completing his legal studies, Kühnelt entered the railway service and made it to the position of railway inspector.

Kühnelt spent a large part of his life in England and America, lived there for some time as a cowboy and sailed through large parts of the South Seas . In his works he evaluated these travel experiences literarily. In 1911/12 he was editor of the communications of the Austro-Hungarian cinema industry . He was President of the Lower Austrian Writers 'Association and in 1928 the founder and president of the Alpine Writers' Association . Occasionally he also worked as a director.

On October 6, 1930 Kühnelt was on a Deutsche Lufthansa flight from Berlin via Dresden to Vienna . Before the stopover in Dresden, the machine, a Messerschmitt M20 , crashed next to the landing site. The list of the dead , announced on the same day, identified the writer Dr. Richard Kühnelt, lives in Baden near Vienna .

Kühnelt was married to Elsa Maria for the second time; the daughters Liesl (* 1914) and Gretl (* 1921) came from the connection .

Richard Kühnelt was buried for rest on October 11, 1930 at the parish cemetery in Baden near Vienna.

Works

  • Interiors . 1901 (poems)
  • Damn money . 1926 (acting)
  • But Sascha . 1928 (acting)
  • Puppet show . 1929 (acting)
  • Gold and colorful people. American adventures . Austrian Federal Publishing House for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 1929
  • One night's miracle. A German Christmas game in 2 acts . Val. Höfling, Munich 1930 (Mystery Play)
  • On Asia's country roads . Krystall-Verlag, Vienna 1930

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1901-1935 . 1936
  • Hanus:  Kühnelt Richard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 324.
  • Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual . Volume 2, Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt 1960

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dr. Richard Kühnelt † .. In:  Badener Zeitung , October 11, 1930, p. 2. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  2. ^ The catastrophe of the Vienna-Berlin plane. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, October 7, 1930, p. 7, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  3. ↑ deaths. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, October 12, 1930, p. 11, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  4. ↑ Local. The funeral of Dr. Richard Kühnelts. In:  Badener Zeitung , October 15, 1930, p. 3. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt

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personal data
SURNAME Kühnelt, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1930
Place of death near Dresden