Rudolf Holzer

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Rudolf Holzer (born July 28, 1875 in Vienna ; † July 17, 1965 there ) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

After graduating from the University of Vienna , Holzer first studied mechanical engineering , then philosophy , art history and archeology . In 1897 he entered the civil service and worked in the kuk trade ministry, where he contributed to its monthly Austria . From 1900 he was an editor for theater criticism and art criticism . In 1901 he married the actress Alice Hétsey . From 1924–1933 he was editor-in-chief of the Wiener Zeitung until he was recalled by the Dollfuss government. At the same time he was a columnist for various domestic and foreign newspapers. Holzer belonged to that group of ethnically oriented writers, the Austrian 1933 PEN -Club left because of this, the book burning the Nazis had condemned.

From July 1, 1938, Holzer was a member number 9,377,925 of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) and from 1938–1941 a member of the Reich Association of the German Press , but his name was deleted in autumn 1941 due to his job as a journalist. After the annexation of Austria he published theater reviews and other articles in the Wiener Zeitung . In March 1945 he was indicted in Vienna because he had lived with the Jew Elsa Baruch until January 1945 and had listened to foreign broadcasters since the end of 1943. It "didn't spare him the Nazi barbarism either, and he and his wife got to know the Gestapo bunkers."

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

After the Second World War he worked for the Wiener Zeitung . 1945–58 Holzer was president of the Concordia press club . 1946–1948 he was head of the features section of the press , for which he wrote feature sections until 1953. From 1948 he was a professor at the Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Vienna. 1950–1955 he was the theater critic of the press . Then he worked as a freelance writer.

Holzer was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 3, Row 26, No. 72).

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The fire of the domestic hearth . Salzburg: Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg / Vienna / Leipzig 1937.
  • (Ed.): Wiener Volks-Humor. Harpists Folk singer. Andermann, Vienna 1943.
  • The sky full of violins. Austrian drama in 3 acts. Wallishaussen, Vienna 1948.
  • The Viennese suburban stages . Vienna: Austrian State Printing Office, 1951.
  • The Vienna Boys' Choir . Vienna: Frick, 1953.
  • From the old Gastein . Salzburg: Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, 1957.
  • Villa Wertheimstein . Vienna: Bergland-Verlag, 1960.

literature

  • Isabella Ackerl , Friedrich Weissensteiner : Austrian Personal Lexicon of the First and Second Republic . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-8000-3464-6 .
  • Richard Emele: Rudolf Holzer. A life and work for the theater . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1950.
  • Walter Kleindel: The great book of the Austrians. 4500 person representations in words and pictures, names, dates, facts . With the collaboration of Hans Veigl . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-218-00455-1 .
  • Silvia Planer: The columnists of the 'Neue Wiener Tagblatt'. A collective biographical study with special consideration of the period 1938–1945 . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2020 ( othes.univie.ac.at [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Johann Nepomuk's marriage book, tom. XIII, fol. 115 ( facsimile )
  2. ^ Roček, Roman (2000). Glamor and misery of the PEN biography of a literary club . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. P. 610.
  3. ^ Hub (1950). "Rudolf Holzer in his seventy-five". In: Arbeiterzeitung from July 28, 1950.
personal data
SURNAME Holzer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1965
Place of death Vienna