Rudolf Jeremias Kreutz

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Rudolf Jeremias Kreutz (actually Rudolf Křiž , pseudonym: Jeremias, Esau, Ormuzd, Yumslai, O. Mosquito; born February 2, 1876 in Roždalowitz , Bohemia ; † September 3, 1949 in Grundlsee , Styria ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Rudolf Jeremias Kreutz was the son of a sugar manufacturer from Roždalowitz; his mother Berta, nee Teibler, was the daughter of Anton Teibler, an honorary citizen of Dux . He attended the lower secondary school in Wiener Neustadt and graduated from the cadet school in Vienna. From 1894 he was an officer ( lieutenant colonel ) in the Austro-Hungarian army and already published satirical texts during this time. During the First World War he was taken prisoner by the Russians in November 1914. In 1918 he was able to flee. In 1919 he married Heddy Kreutz-Seiller (* 1880), the granddaughter of the first freely elected mayor of Vienna, Johann Kaspar Freiherr von Seiller , who was mayor of Vienna from 1851 to 1861.

Having become a pacifist as a prisoner of war in Eastern Siberia , Kreutz resigned as an officer after his return home in 1920 and worked as a freelance writer spreading his vision of an ideal human society ("Der neue Mensch", 1920).

His resolution against the National Socialist tyranny, which he introduced to the PEN Club in 1933, was followed by a ban on publications in Germany and, after the Anschluss in 1938, in Austria; In 1944 he was imprisoned for five months.

Kreutz wrote for the satirical weekly Die Muskete and was active for Henri Barbusses peace movement "Clarté" after the First World War .

After the death of Kreutz, who died in Villa Seiller in Grundlsee in 1949, Heddy Kreutz-Seiller was busy with the administration of her husband's literary legacy. Kreutz's estate is preserved in the manuscript collection of the Vienna Library in the Vienna City Hall.

In 1992 the Literar-Mechana and the former Foreign Minister Erich Bielka called the “Dr. Erich Bielka Foundation in memory of Rudolf Jeremias Kreutz ”. The purpose of the foundation is to make the property belonging to the property in Grundlsee available to creative artists for work and recreational stays. The foundation administrator is Franz-Leo Popp. The foundation is under the supervision of the Vienna provincial government (MA 62).

Works

  • The big phrase (1919).
  • The lonely flame (novel 1920).
  • Eva's slide. Bad Stories (1924).
  • The crisis of pacifism, anti-Semitism, irony (1931).
  • I was an Austrian (Roman, 1959).
  • People in the rubble (novellas, 1923).
  • Songs of the earth (poems, 1933).
  • Harvest in the Storm (Poems, 1946).
  • Arabesques of life. Stories (1947).
  • From God's wonderful garden (stories, 1947).

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personal data
SURNAME Kreutz, Rudolf Jeremias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Křiš, Rudolf; Krisch, Rudolf; Kreutz, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Roždalowitz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1949
Place of death Grundlsee (place) , Styria