Rudolf Brix (writer)

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Rudolf Brix (born June 4, 1880 in Innsbruck ; † April 26, 1953 there ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Rudolf Brix studied law at the University of Innsbruck and joined the police in 1905, where he made it up to Innsbruck's chief police officer.

He came into contact with the theater early on and wrote around 25 plays. From 1900 to 1911 he was editor of the magazine Der Föhn together with Franz Kranewitter and Richard Wilhelm Polifka .

Brix was friends with Hermann Greinz , Ferdinand Exl and Karl Schönherr and married the Exl actress Luise Herzleier. Most of his pieces were performed on the Exl stage in Innsbruck and Vienna. His pieces repeatedly caused scandals. The performance of the comedy Das Gnadenbild was banned by the censors in Tyrol and Vorarlberg in 1909 because of “degrading the teachings and institutions of the Catholic Church” and sparked protests in Graz and Linz. The monk and the sinner were deposed in Vienna in 1930 after five performances after the intervention of clerical circles. The piece In Our Vineyard Lies A Treasure , in which Brix made fun of the police, made sure that he was temporarily suspended from duty and retired in 1934.

Brix is ​​best known for his reworking of folk fabrics such as Der Graf von Schroffenstein and Die Räuber am Glockenhof . The latter piece is regularly performed by amateur stages, but it was also very successful at the Ritten Summer Games and the Tyrolean Folk Drama in Telfs.

Works

  • The dry tree. Tragedy in three acts, 1910
  • The miraculous image (later: The Virgin Mary ). Comedy in four acts, 1911
  • "To the fatherland, to the dear ones ...." 1914
  • The house of cards (also: the unchastity ). Tragedy in three acts, 1915
  • The nonsensical Thursday. Comedy in three acts, 1918
  • Grotesques: The adulteress, A serious game, The longed-for day, Reckoning, The evil hour. Five one-act plays, 1922
  • The idol. A peasant tragedy in three acts, 1924
  • The idol. A priestly drama . 1924
  • Balduin and Filimunde (also: Filimunde, the murderess ). Tragic comedy in five acts. 1926
  • Spirit. Tragic comedy in four acts. 1928
  • The monk and the sinner. A dramatic novel in 21 chapters. 1930
  • Let others take care of us. A parasitic comedy in 5 acts. 1930
  • In the name of justice. Three acts. 1931
  • There is a treasure in our vineyard. 1932
  • The judgment of God at Sigmundsberg or the head of the beheaded. 1933 (info)
  • The Count of Schroffenstein or finding oneself in the grave of the dead. 1933
  • The robbers from the Glockenhof. 1934
  • One kiss, one fate. Comedy. 1935
  • The peasant rebel . 1936
  • Don Johannes. Comedy. 1937
  • The victim. Tragedy. 1943

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Hoiß, Sandra Unterweger: A local eye in Tyrol 1900-1950. In: Stefan Neuhaus, Johann Holzner (Hrsg.): Literature as a scandal: cases - functions - consequences. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-20855-7 , pp. 314–343.
  2. ↑ Renon Summer Games: Rudolf Brix
personal data
SURNAME Brix, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1953
Place of death innsbruck