Rudolf Greinz

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Rudolf Greinz

Rudolf Heinrich Greinz (born August 16, 1866 in Pradl near Innsbruck , † August 16, 1942 in Innsbruck) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Rudolf Greinz was born as the eldest of five children of the building councilor Anton Greinz and his wife Maria. Kapferer born. His younger brothers Hugo (1873-1946) and Hermann (1879-1938) also became writers. In 1879 the family moved to Salzburg; his father had been transferred there.

In 1883 Rudolf Greinz passed the Matura at the kk Staatsgymnasium in Salzburg. He then studied German language and literature , classical philology and art history at the Universities of Graz and Innsbruck. Due to illness, Greinz had to give up the planned scientific career. Then decided to become a writer. He settled in Merano as a freelance writer .

In Meran, Rudolf Greinz met Zoe Basevi, who came from an important Jewish-British family, the daughter of a retired sea officer living there as a reindeer , and a great niece of the English statesman Benjamin Disraeli . They married in 1899. In 1905 he moved to Innsbruck with his family. There he worked on the magazine Der Föhn , together with Richard Wilhelm Polifka, Rudolf Brix  and Franz Kranewitter . However, his contributions met with increasing criticism and rejection of his fellow writers, which is why he moved to Munich in 1911. There he worked under the pseudonym "Tuifelemaler Kassian Kluibenschädel" on the magazine Jugend .

In 1934 his wife Zoe died. Two years later, Rudolf Greinz moved to the Rosenegg residence in Aldrans , a village above Innsbruck. Greinz acquired the "Villa Rosenegg" in 1926, but initially only used it as a summer retreat. Numerous trips took him to poetry readings throughout the German-speaking area. In 1939 Greinz applied for admission to the Reichsschrifttumskammer , which was granted retrospectively from July 1, 1938.

Rudolf Greinz died on his 76th birthday. His grave is in the Ampass cemetery .

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Rudolf Greinz's early work is reminiscent of Ludwig Thoma. Greinz was best known for his novels, especially historical novels . Like Rudolf Greinz himself, many of his fictional characters are deeply influenced by religion. However, his relationship with the church was always ambivalent. In his writings, he criticized higher clerics for a way of life that was not in keeping with following Jesus and for turning away from poor and simple people. Critical to the church is z. B. the novel Abbess Verena published in 1915 .

Since 1912 his books have been published by the Ludwig Staackmann publishing house in Leipzig. Alfred Staackmann, the owner of the publishing house, was connected to Greinz as a friend and literary advisor. Greinz presented a new novel, a collection of stories and / or a new stage play almost every year. Greinz published a total of 132 books during his lifetime, not counting the new editions. A contemporary literary guide, widely read at the time, called him - smugly, but not entirely inaccurately - a "common man who just shakes poetry, peasant stories and folk dramas up his sleeve". His books reached - in total - millions of copies. His novel All Souls' Day alone was sold more than 100,000 times. Especially outside of Austria, among his readers in Germany and the USA, Greinz was considered the typical representative of native, down-to-earth literature in Tyrol.

The estate of Rudolf Greinz is at the University of Innsbruck managed.

Together with his uncle Josef August Kapferer, Rudolf Greinz published the volumes "Tiroler Volkslieder" and "Tiroler Schnadahüpfeln" in two episodes each from 1889, first at the Liebeskind publishing house in Leipzig, and later at Cotta in Stuttgart. They are among the first prints with songs from Tyrolean tradition.

Honors

  • The city of Innsbruck named Rudolf-Greinz-Straße in Pradl after him while he was still alive .
  • The Greinzgasse in Vienna's Donaustadt (22nd district) has been commemorating him since 1955 .
  • In the Carinthian Feld am See , where Greinz repeatedly stayed, there is a Rudolf-Greinz-Weg .

Fonts (selection)

Novels

  • Judgment Day (1893)
  • Hall's scribe. A Tyrolean story from the 16th century (1895)
  • The rose of Altspaur. A Tyrolean story from the 15th century (1896)
  • Mr. Expositus. A highland legend (1900)
  • The "Varyag" (1904)
  • The silent nest. A Tyrolean novel (1907)
  • The Michael Senn house. A Tyrolean novel (1909)
  • All Souls. Tyrolean novel (1910)
  • Gertraud Sonnweber (1912)
  • Abbess Verena (1915)
  • Die Stadt am Inn (1917) Digitized online
  • The Garden of God (1919) digitized online
  • Queen Homeland (1921) digitized online
  • The shepherd of Zenoberg. A Margarethe Maultasch novel (1922)
  • Fridolin Crystaller's cart (1923)
  • Early Spring of Love (1924)
  • Mystery of Sebaldus Night (1925)
  • The great longing (1926) digitized online
  • The Philistine Paradise (1927)
  • Golgotha ​​of Marriage (1929) digitized online
  • The Tower of Silence (1930) digitized online
  • Demon Woman (1931) digitized online
  • The secret life (1932) digitized online
  • Regina Rautenwald (1933) Digitized online
  • The steep path (1940) digitized online

stories

  • Who stone them A Poor People's Story (1887)
  • Tyrolean people. Mountain stories and sketches (1892)
  • Leni. A Tyrolean Peasant Story (1893)
  • The last supper. A story from the time of Christ (1893)
  • The stone burrows. The cooperator. Two Tyrolean Peasant Stories (1894)
  • Over mountains and valleys. Serious and cheerful stories from Tyrol (1899)
  • The golden skittles game. New Tyrolean Stories (1905)
  • On the sunny side. Funny Tyrolean Stories (1911)
  • Around the church tower. Funny Tyrolean Stories (1916)
  • Mountain home. Two stories from Tyrol (1918)
  • The gates of eternity. Legends (1920)
  • Saint Bureaucrats - a cheerful legend (1922)
  • Lost time. Romantic love stories from Tyrol (1929) digitized online

Stage plays

  • Incognito. Schwank in three acts (1893)
  • Dwarf King Laurin. Play in four acts (1894)
  • The woman from Weissenbach. Farmer's posse with song and dance in one act (1894)
  • The fall of man. Folk play in four acts (1894)
  • The nativity play of the glorious birth of our Savior. Great folk drama in six pictures (1895)
  • The martyr. Stage play in five acts from the time of the first Christians (1902)
  • The past. Play in three acts (1912)

Poetry

  • The students. Burschikose stanzas à la Klapphorn (1885)
  • Zithaschlag'n. Allahand Gsangaln and Gschicht'n from Tyrol (1890)

Writings on literature

  • The tragic motifs in German poetry since Goethe's death (1889)
  • Heinrich Heine and the German Folk Song (1894)

Religious writings

  • Modern original sins. A time mirror (1895)
  • Christ and the poor. A pamphlet in armor (1895)
  • Peasant Bible (1897); New editions from 1907 under the title Tiroler Bauernbibel , digitized online of the 1937 edition

Other fonts

  • Walks in Merano (1894)
  • The Gymnasium or the Systematic Dumbing Down of Youth (1895)
  • From Innsbruck to Kufstein . A hike through the Lower Inn Valley (1902)
  • Marterln and votive dishes by the Tuifel painter Kassian Kluibenschädel. For the good and good of the honorable contemporaries (1905)

In addition, Rudolf Greinz published the poems of Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg , the Unter dem Doppelaar collection. War novels from Austria (1915) as well as numerous other anthologies, especially for Reclam's Universal Library, and literary yearbooks, including the paperback for book lovers and Staackmann's Almanach .

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Iris Kathan, Christiane Oberthanner: Innsbruck. A literary city guide . Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-85218-581-1 , p. 224.
  2. ↑ Ferruccio Delle Cave, Bertrand Huber: Meran in the field of view of German literature. A documentation from the middle of the 19th century to the present (= literary testimonies from Tyrol , vol. 6). Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1988, ISBN 88-7014-494-1 , p. 91.
  3. ↑ Eduard Widmoser: Greinz, Rudolf . In: Ders: Südtirol A – Z , Bd. 2: G – Ko . Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1983, p. 114.
  4. ↑ Josef Fontana : History of the State of Tyrol , Vol. 3: The time from 1848 to 1918 . Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 1987, ISBN 88-7014-454-2 , p. 390.
  5. ↑ Ansitz Rosenegg ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 28, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.greinz-archiv.at
  6. ^ Street names in Vienna since 1860 as "Political Places of Remembrance" (PDF; 4.4 MB), final research project report, Vienna, July 2013, p. 259.
  7. ^ Rudolf Heinrich Greinz in the portal Lexikon Literatur in Tirol .
  8. ^ Josef Nadler : literary history of Austria . Otto Müller, Salzburg 1951, p. 386.
  9. ^ Josef Feichtinger, Gerhard Riedmann : Encounters. Tyrolean literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Texts and comments . Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 1994, ISBN 88-7014-801-7 , p. 410.
  10. ^ Adolf Bartels : The German poetry of the present. The old and the young . Avenarius, Leipzig, 8th edition 1910, p. 352.
  11. ^ Murray G. Hall : Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918–1938 , Vol. 2: Belletristische Verlage der First Republic . Böhlau, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-412-05585-9 , p. 535.
  12. ↑ Eduard Castle (Ed.): History of German literature in Austria-Hungary in the age of Franz Joseph I , Vol. 2: 1890-1918. Fromme, Vienna 1938, p. 1299.
  13. ^ Rudolf Greinz's estate in the Brenner Archive Research Institute.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Greinz, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greinz, Rudolf Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Pradl near Innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1942
Place of death innsbruck