Rudolf Fochler

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Rudolf Fochler (born January 16, 1914 in Freiwaldau-Graefenberg , † December 28, 2001 in Linz ) was an Austrian editor, moderator, educator, musician and folklorist.

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Rudolf Fochler was born the son of a master locksmith in the Moravian-Silesian town of Jeseník (Freiwaldau-Graefenberg). After graduating from high school and graduating from the music school in Opava (organ, piano, violin and cello), he graduated from the German Teacher Training Institute in Prague and studied musicology and folklore at the German University in Prague. He became a teacher at Spiš in Slovakia and was also involved in folk culture there.

From 1939 to 1945 he was a senior consultant for German-language broadcasts at the Slovak Radio in Pressburg .

In 1945 the Fochler family was expelled from Slovakia and finally came to Upper Austria, where he initially worked as a laborer in agriculture and later as organist and choirmaster in the Peuerbach parish .

From 1951 Fochler worked for ORF Upper Austria, where he worked for Radio Linz mainly in the fields of theater, culture and folklore and moderated radio programs. In 1961 he received his doctorate from the University of Graz Dr. phil. From 1968 to 1977 he was head of the folk culture department at ORF Upper Austria.

Fochler also taught at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and at popular education centers. In 1971, after Hans Commenda's death, he became the director of the OÖ Volksliedwerk. He was a member of the Innviertel Artists' Guild and an official of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft.

Awards

  • Advancement award for adult education
  • Monument Protection Medal
  • Adalbert Stifter Medal
  • Title consultant for folk culture and homeland care of the Upper Austrian state government
  • Awarded the professional title of Professor by the Federal President (1973)

Publications

  • The radio. A way of popular education. Verlag Neue Volksbildung, Vienna 1964
  • Traditional costumes from Austria. Verlag Weisermühl, Wels, Munich 1965
  • From New Year to New Year. Popular dates in Upper Austria. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1971
  • Leisure guide Mühlviertel. Linz, Upper Austria. Landesverlag, 1984
  • In the tops of the trees. From the tree in customs and Believe. Linz, Upper Austria Landesverlag, 1985

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Blöchl 2002, p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Fochler, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian editor, moderator, pedagogue, musician and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiwaldau-Graefenberg
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2001
Place of death Linz