Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn

Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn (born February 3, 1892 in Vienna ; † February 7, 1956 ) was an Austrian writer who also published under the pseudonyms Roderich Meinhart and Dietrich Arndt.

Life

Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn was the son of the then well-known poet Adam Müller, who called himself " Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn " after his place of birth Guttenbrunn in the Banat . From 1902 on, Roderich spent a few years of his youth in Freistadt , where he attended high school and lived in the “ Studentenkonvikt ” (an expensive student residence in the city), but later also privately in a student dorm. The experiences of this time are reflected in the novel The Forgotten City .

After a few confusions and changes of school, he finally graduated from high school in Krumau an der Moldau in 1912 . During the First World War he was an artillery officer and after the war he worked as a freelance writer and journalist for the Linzer Morgenpost . From 1919 he published his own works in the publishing house Theodor Weicher, albeit under the pseudonyms Roderich Meinhart and Dietrich Arndt, as he did not want to be a beneficiary of his well-known father's name.

This is how the novel The Forgotten City came into being in 1921 , which he had published again under his real name much later (1943) with the title Die Studenten von Hohenstadt (slightly modified). At the beginning of the 1930s, Müller-Guttenbrunn moved as a journalist from Linz to Vienna and lived in Weidling . He approached more and more German national and National Socialist ideas (which can be clearly seen in The Students of Hohenstadt ). In August 1940 he was promoted to managing director of the Ostmark regional association in the RDP ( Reich Association of the German Press ) at the side of Walter Petwaidic .

After the collapse of the German Empire , Müller-Guttenbrunn left Weidling with his family and from then on lived at Wildberg Castle in Haselgraben (in the Mühlviertel). Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn died on February 7, 1956 at the age of 64 after a serious illness and is buried in the Weidling cemetery .

His writings Kommen wird der Tag (1921) and The World Conspirators (1926) were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet zone of occupation , Revolution in July (1930) and The Students of Hohenstadt (1943) in the German Democratic Republic .

Works

• I want to go home again! , Roman, Verlag Th. Weicher, Leipzig, 1919
• Those who stayed by the way , collection of novels, Verlag Th. Weicher, Leipzig, 1920
• Downfall , Drama, Verlag Th. Weicher, Leipzig, 1921
• Wiener Totentanz , Roman, Verlag Th. Weicher, Leipzig, 1921 (as Roderich Meinhart)
• The forgotten city , Roman, Verlag Th. Weicher, Leipzig, 1921 (as Roderich Meinhart) ≈
  ≈ The students of Hohenstadt , Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz / Leipzig, 1943 (under his real name)
• The day will come! The story of the next German liberation , science fiction, Verlag Th. Weicher, Leipzig, 1921 (as Dietrich Arndt)
• Knappenbüchlein , Bärenreiter-Verlag, Augsburg, 1924 (under his real name)
• Madonna loneliness , novel, Verlag Th. Weicher, Leipzig, 1924 (as Roderich Meinhart)
• The world conspirators. A Jewish novel , Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Leipzig, 1926 (as Dietrich Arndt)
• Revolution in July , Heimatschutzverband für Kärnten, Klagenfurt, 1930
• Baggage. Round dance for a singer. , Fiba-Verlag, Vienna, 1931 (as Dietrich Arndt)
• Man is bad !? , Roman, Antaios-Verlag, Leipzig, 1932

Web links

• Literature by and about Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Dietrich Arndt at Open Library
• Reading sample from the book "The Forgotten City"

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• Councilor Prof. Dr. Othmar Rappersberger: You too were in our school once , in: 113th Annual Report of the Free City High School . Self-published by the Federal High School Freistadt , 1983.
• Fritz Hausjell : Journalists for the Reich. The "Reich Association of the German Press" in Austria 1938–45 . Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85115-162-3 , p. 146.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit.html
2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-m.html