Rudolf Hans Bartsch

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Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1925)

Rudolf Hans Bartsch (born February 11, 1873 in Graz , Styria , † February 7, 1952 there ) was an Austrian officer and writer .

life and work

Rudolf Hans Bartsch as kuk captain 1914
Grave of Bartsch on the Grazer Schloßberg (funeral motto by Josef Friedrich Perkonig )

Bartsch has been writing novels and short stories since 1908 which, according to today's critics, often glorify old Austria in a sentimental way. According to Gero von Wilpert, an extremely fruitful, uncritical narrator from old Austria with soulful and amiable novels and short stories, hearty and bittersweet love stories of playful light-heartedness ... Already for his first works he received very positive reviews, for "Twelve from Styria" He was praised by the influential critic Hermann Bahr as the new voice of Austria : "There stands the new Austria happily , for which we wrestled with angry fists." For Willi Handl , Die Haindlkinder (1909) was "undoubtedly the most remarkable Viennese novel last time. ”His Schubert novel Schwammerl , one of the most successful books before the Second World War , served as a template for the musical theater Das Dreimäderlhaus by the composer Heinrich Berté in 1916 , which was also made into a film.

From Bartsch comes u. a. the mythological poem Herbstchor an Pan , which tells of the work of the god Pan and the seasons as symbols for the cycle of life and the transience on earth in the sense of the changing seasons. The work gained greater fame when it was set to music in January 1911 by Joseph Marx , Austria's most frequently performed song composer at the time, as a one-movement cantata for mixed choir, boys' voices, organ and large orchestra. Curiously, it is the first work by Joseph Marx written for orchestra. The Herbstchor an Pan was recorded for the first time in June 2008 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus under Jiří Bělohlávek together with the other choral works by Joseph Marx for the British label Chandos.

His work in the kuk war archive, to which he was assigned as first lieutenant from 1895 to 1911, is largely unknown.

After his death, Rudolf Hans Bartsch was cremated and his urn was walled up on the Graz Schloßberg in the walls of the former stable bastion.

In his hometown Graz , in whose city district Sankt Peter he died in 1952, as well as in Leibnitz and Mureck streets were named after him.

Awards and honors

Works (selection)

Novels

  • Twelve from Styria , 1908
  • Elisabeth Kött , 1909
  • Mushrooms . Schubert novel, 1912
  • The German suffering. A landscape novel , 1912
  • The story of Hannerl and her lovers , 1913
  • The last student , Ullstein, Berlin 1913
  • HE. A Book of Devotion , 1915
  • The aviator , 1915
  • Mrs. Utta and the hunter , 1915
  • Lukas Rabesam , 1917
  • The young poet. Roman , 1918
  • Paganism . The story of a lonely man, 1919
  • Eternal Arcadia! , 1920
  • His Jewess or Jakob Böhmes Schusterkugel , 1921
  • A tramp , 1921
  • The Haindl children
  • The little animal . The story of a little grisette, 1922
  • The carnival opera . (So ​​fan tutte). With 6 photolithographic mounted full images in 10-color offset print by Franz von Bayros, 1922
  • The Salige
  • The Thought of Satan (probably 1923)
  • Venus and the girl's grave. Love story of a nerd , 1926
  • The lovers and their city , 1927
  • The pharmacy for the blue goose. Novel from Strange Frontier , 1928
  • Wild and free. Theme with variations , 1928
  • The big old cat. A Schopenhauer story , 1929
  • The temptress. A Viennese story , 1930
  • Big and Little Klaus , 1931
  • Marie Antoinette's smile , 1932
  • A German. Composed from fragments of the memory of Christoph Magnus von Raithenau , 1933
  • The big dream of the little Viennese. A cheerful state action , 1936
  • Brothers in the Storm , 1940
  • When Majesties Love , 1949

Stories, short stories

  • Bittersweet love stories , 1910
  • From the dying Rococo , 1909
  • Unfulfilled stories
  • Women . 3 novellas, 1918
  • Music . 3 novellas, 1923
  • Novellas , 1924
  • Histörchen , 1925

Plays

  • Without God. A Mother's Tragedy , 1915
  • Distant ship . 3 nudes (6 images) from the life of the great colonizer John Smith, 1934

Essays

  • The happiness of the German man , 1927

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Lexicon of World Literature , Ed. Gero von Wilpert. Among employees numerous Specialist, DTV, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-59050-5 .
  2. ↑ Hermann Bahr: What I found joy in. A survey of valuable new books. Nord und Süd, 32 (1908) # 127/381 (December), 529-530, here: 530.
  3. ^ Willi Handl: New Viennese Novels. In: Neue Revue und Morgen, 1909 # 16, 582-584.
personal data
SURNAME Bartsch, Rudolf Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1952
Place of death Graz