Rudolf Felmayer

Rudolf Felmayer (born December 24, 1897 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † January 27, 1970 there ) was an Austrian writer, poet and librarian.

Life

Initially, Felmayer worked in banking, but during the Second World War he was obliged to serve in the German armed forces . In 1945 he became a poetry consultant at the Vienna Radio Studio. In the same year he began working in the editorial department of the magazine " Plan ", which he held until the end of the magazine in 1948. In addition, he was an employee of the municipal libraries and speaker in the literary department of RAVAG (a predecessor organization of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) , editor of the poetry anthologies “Door to door” (3 episodes, 1950, 1955, 1965) and the extensive series “New seal from Austria ”(165 volumes, 1953–1970) and the narrative anthology“ Ernstes Kleines Lesebuch ”(double volume, 1955). Felmayer sponsored the poets Ingeborg Bachmann (1948), Christine Busta (from 1948) and Rose Ausländer (1965).

tomb

Felmayer is buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 9). In 1974 the Felmayergasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.

Awards and memberships

• 1935: Julius Reich Prize (for his first volume of poetry "Die silent Götter")
• 1956: Austrian State Prize for Poetry.
• Member of the Austrian PEN

Works

Felmayer was above all a poet. His works were only partially printed, especially the volumes of poetry:

• The silent gods . Vienna, 1936.
• Hermann Hakel (Ed.): Voices of the time. Five poets: Friedrich Bergammer , Fritz Brainin , Rudolf Felmayer, Johann Gunert , Hermann Hakel. Anzengruber, Vienna 1938.
• Eastern soul in death . Vienna, 1945 (edited by Leopold Liegler).
• Face of man . Vienna 1948.
• Your heart is your home . Vienna 1955.
• The toy dealer from the east . 1958.
• A Viennese passion . Vienna-Munich, 1963.
• Repetents of Life . Graz 1963.
• The Viennese and his death . Vienna, 1968.
• Baroque Conduct, or: A schene Leich anno 1765 . With illustrations by Hans Fronius . Vienna, 1968.
• Landscape of the Ages. Poems from the estate . Edited by Erna Felmayer. Vienna, 1970.

In addition, many essays and lectures, e.g. B.

• Theodor Kramer: Banished from Austria . in: The Week March 4, 1946.

and other works, which z. Some of them are only preserved as typescripts, so among others

• Little Passion / Dürer . Fourteen sonnets. no year
• Chinese legend . Poems. no year
• The concert of the animals . After a motif by the poet Oskar Loerke . June 16, 1940.

literature

• Rudolf Felmayer, Franz Richter (ed.): Face of the people. A celebration for Rudolf Felmayer's 70th birthday. Bergland, Vienna 1968. With contributions by Felix Braun , Christine Busta , Friederike Mayröcker , Ernst Schönwiese , Johannes Urzidil , Alexander Lernet-Holenia , Ernst Waldinger , Marlen Haushofer , Gerhard Fritsch and many others
• Alexander Lernet-Holenia : funeral speech Rudolf Felmayer. In: Sheets of the Austrian PEN Club 70/1. Vienna 1970.
• Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories. Vienna 1984.
• Rudolf Felmayer , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 195–198
• Ursula A. Schneider, Annette Steinsiek: In a roundabout way to a degree. Christine Busta's path to dialect. In: Messages from the Brenner Archive 32/2013, 131–151. On-line

Web links

• Holdings in the catalog of the Austrian National Library Vienna:

http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00036809

http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00036810

http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00024137

http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00037524

http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00037525

http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00037527

• Literature by and about Rudolf Felmayer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Rudolf Felmayer in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Photo Rudolf Felmayer (around 1950)