Richard Plattensteiner

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Richard Plattensteiner

Richard Plattensteiner (born March 18, 1878 in Vienna ; † July 18, 1956 there ) was an Austrian writer and dialect poet. He also published under the pseudonym Robert Palten .

Life

Plattensteiner studied botany , phonetics , chemistry , physics and German at the University of Vienna . During his studies he worked as a traveling lecturer from 1898 and received his doctorate in 1900. From 1902 he worked as a freelance writer. Plattensteiner was known as the mediator of the works of Peter Rosegger and Franz Stelzhamer , which he also placed at the center of his own poems. Plattensteiner wrote his own essays on both authors, which he published in 1903 ("Franz Stelzhamer") and 1906 ("Peter Rossegger").

This was followed by works in the genres of poetry (including “Das Lied vom Steffl ”, 1916), prose and drama (e.g. “Beethoven. A consecration play”, 1920). In 1930 he published an anthology on "Poetry in Lower Austrian Dialect".

Plattensteiner was a founding member of the Association of German Writers Austria , founded in 1936 , which worked intensively on the integration of Austria into the German Empire . As such, he was involved in the “Confession Book” of Austrian poets, in which the authors enthusiastically welcomed the “ Anschluss ”.

Plattensteiner stated in his application for membership in the Reichsschrifttumskammer in 1938 that he was close to the Greater German People's Party and an honorary member of the Kernstock Society (after the German national writer Ottokar Kernstock ). In November 1938, the manager of the Reichsschrifttumskammer (Reichsschrifttumskammer) of the Austrian provincial government described Plattensteiner as someone who “had always been active in the National Socialist sense”. However, according to the final research project report on the street names of Vienna, the documents attached to the application do not contain any ingratiation to the National Socialists, as was otherwise customary with applications. Plattensteiner joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1940 ( membership number 8,454,788).

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Plattensteiner asked for leniency from the registration requirement in the course of denazification . However, the request was not granted by decision of August 16, 1945; In 1947 he was classified as a "minor offender".

Plattensteiner died in Vienna in 1956, his grave is in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery .

Awards

Honors

1959 in Vienna- Donaustadt the plate Steinergasse named after him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Richard Plattensteiner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  2. ↑ a b c d Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 204, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1943, at Plattensteiner's instigation, Rosegger's birthplace in Alpl and the house where he died in Krieglach were declared national consecration places . - See: Eduard Castle :  From the forest into the world. (...) Holy places. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt , No. 174/1943 (LXXVII. Year), June 26, 1943, p. 3 (unpaginated) middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
personal data
SURNAME Plattensteiner, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palten, Robert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1956
Place of death Vienna