Rudolf Haybach
Rudolf Haybach (born December 29, 1886 in Vienna ; † February 15, 1983 ibid) was an Austrian publisher, theater director, painter and writer.
Life
Haybach was one of the last universalists and a colorful figure on the Viennese art scene. He was a painter, publisher, writer, theater director, inventor, exhibition maker and director of the Vienna Secession . As a civil engineer, he planned the Bad Gastein water pipeline, which is still in operation today .
Rudolf's father Anton Haybach came from the Egerland as a Sudeten German , his mother from the Schaedle family in Vienna. He grew up in Kirchengasse in Vienna's Neubau district and attended the Schottenfelder Realschule .
- The Haybach Verlag
Rudolf Haybach was Heimito von Doderer's first publisher . Doderer's literary debuts were published in Haybach's own one-man publishing house, founded in 1921: as a poet ( Gassen und Landschaft , 1924), prose writer ( Die Bresche , 1924) and essayist ( Der Fall Gütersloh , 1930).
Haybach published a total of 17 books and portfolios between 1922 and 1930, including works by Richard Billinger ( Praise to God , Archangel's Morning Call , 1924), Lilly Steiner and Albert Paris Gütersloh (Cain and Abel, 1924). The editions were small, the income low. Doderer's last publication, Der Fall Gütersloh , meant the financial end for the publisher.
Doderer and Gütersloh described Haybach, their publisher, as a “euphoric” and “baroque fictional character”. Haybach also associated them with an ideological closeness to National Socialism .
Haybach himself was also active as a writer. He wrote Viennese Histories (1940) and Under Gothic Roofs - Sagas and Legends from Old Vienna (1941),
- Political functions
NSDAP member Haybach was temporarily deputy of the NS cultural community in Austria, in 1938 also head of the “Art and Theater” department in the NS organization “ Kraft durch Freude ” (KdF) and acting head of the Austrian Art Agency.
- The theater "The Comedy"
In 1938 Haybach met the director and actor Leon Epp , with whom he reactivated the old boulevard theater “Die Komödie” in Johannesgasse in Vienna (today's Metro-Kino ). Haybach leased the theater and also invested private assets. The program was “ sophisticated poetry from the past that was wrongly forgotten ” and “ the premiere of poets from East Markets ”. The theater opened on September 28, 1939 with the first performance of Manfred Hausmann's "Lilofee". Leon Epp staged, Gustav Manker designed the set. Haybach, so far without any experience in the theater, was director; Leon Epp artistic director. The ensemble included Elisabeth Epp , Helmut Janatsch , Hans Brand and the young Josef Meinrad .
At the end of April 1941, Rudolf Haybach was no longer able to financially keep the "Komödie" running and incorporated the house into the Deutsche Volkstheater . The owner became the German Labor Front . The “Komödie” became the second KdF theater in Vienna, where Haybach was the representative of General Manager Walter Bruno Iltz until August 1943 .
- Visual arts
After the Second World War, between 1948 and 1954, Haybach was Secretary General and then Director of the Vienna Secession , whose rebuilding he organized after the war.
Since 1969, Haybach has been working on his own visual oeuvre comprising hundreds of oil paintings and drawings. It shows a relationship to Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh . In the last two decades of his life, Haybach only worked as a painter.
literature
- Gerlinde Michels (Ed.): Rudolf Haybach 1886–1983 . A key figure in Austrian cultural history. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-205-99195-8 .
Web links
- Rudolf Haybach 1886-1983
- Literature by and about Rudolf Haybach in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haybach, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter, writer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1983 |
| Place of death | Vienna |