Rudolf Henz
Rudolf Henz (pseudonym: R. Miles) (born May 10, 1897 in Göpfritz an der Wild ( Lower Austria ); † February 12, 1987 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and program director of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation .
Life
Rudolf Henz entered the boys' seminar in Hollabrunn in 1908 together with Jakob Kern and in 1915 he passed the war maturity test at the kk Staatsgymnasium Hollabrunn . He then attended the cadet school at the Theresian Military Academy . After doing his military service, he studied German and art history at the University of Vienna . In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.
In the following years he worked in Catholic popular education. In 1931 he became director of the scientific department at RAVAG and introduced school radio in 1932 .
In May 1934, Henz was made head of the cultural department of the Fatherland Front (VF). After the assassination of the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in the course of the failed July coup in 1934, Henz wrote the text for a hymn song of the youth of the Austro-fascist movement on behalf of his successor Kurt Schuschnigg with the title You boys close the ranks politically against the Horst-Wessel Song was used. From 1934 to 1938 he was also a member of the Federal Culture Council. From July 1936 to October 1937 he was federal manager of the VF New Life plant .
After Austria's "annexation" to the German Reich , he lost his post in 1938. Henz became a freelance writer and earned some money as a glass painter. From 1945 to 1957 he was program director of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1947 he founded the Wiener and in 1948 the Austrian Catholic Action . In 1952 he was President of the Austrian Catholic Day . From 1950 to 1952 he published the literary journal Dicht der Gegenwart , and from 1955 the literary journal Wort in der Zeit . From 1967 to 1980 Rudolf Henz was President of the Austrian Art Senate.
His main work is the verse epic Der Turm der Welt (1952), on which he worked for many years.
He rests in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 33 G, number 75).
Awards and honors
- 1953 Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature
- 1954: Great decoration of honor for services to the Republic of Austria
- 1956 Literature Prize of the City of Vienna
- 1967 Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna
- 1971 Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art
Works
Novels
- The jugglers . Munich 1932
- Still man, a novel of war and love . Salzburg 1935
- The emperor's courier . Bonn 1941, Vienna 1946
- Meeting in September . Munich 1939, Vienna 1949
- A farmer attacks the stars , Bonn 1943. Reprint under the title Peter Anich , the star seeker , Vienna 1946
- The great storm . Munich 1943, Vienna 1949
- The land of the singing hills . Vienna 1954
- The stragglers . Graz 1961
Dramas
- The return of the firstborn . Berlin 1934. Under the title Escape to Home . Vienna 1946
- Emperor Joseph II Vienna 1937
- Redemption (Passion Play). Salzburg 1949
- The penitent . Vienna 1950
- The big decision . Vienna 1954
Games
- The guard game . Berlin 1931
- The Whitsun game . Vienna 1946
- The game of the birth of the Lord . Munich 1947
- The unfaithful tenants . Munich 1954
- The great lie, Ananias and Saphira . Vienna 1949, Munich 1950
Others
- The Tower of the World (Verse-Epic) Vienna 1952
- Providence and resistance (autobiography). Graz 1963
- Still brothers (lyric). Graz 1981
literature
- Poet between the ages. Festschrift for Rudolf Henz for his 80th birthday , ed. v. Viktor Suchy. Vienna: Braumüller 1977. ISBN 3-7003-0148-0
- Irmtraud Letzner: The meaning of the "word" in the poetic work of Rudolf Henz. An examination of the poet's conception of words in his poetry and epic. Graz: Univ. Diss. 1966.
- Erika Wögerer: Inner emigration and historical camouflage in Austria. On the resistance potential in the historical novels of Rudolf Henz. Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Lang 2004. (= European university publications; series 1, German language and literature; 1884) ISBN 3-631-51492-1
Web links
- Rudolf Henz in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Literature by and about Rudolf Henz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Rudolf Henz in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry on Rudolf Henz in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Archive recordings with Rudolf Henz in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek (interviews, radio reports)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Ständisch - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , pp. 97-100.
- ↑ Rino Sanders: Three kingdoms and the cathedral of God. In: The time . April 10, 1952, article online on zeit.de . Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Henz, Rudolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miles, R. (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer; Program Director of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Göpfritz an der Wild , Lower Austria |
DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1987 |
Place of death | Vienna |