Rudolf Kubitschek

Rudolf Kubitschek (born December 29, 1895 in Böhmisch-Röhren near Wallern in the Bohemian Forest , † May 29, 1945 in Prachatitz ) was a folklorist and writer .

Life

Rudolf Kubitschek was born as the son of a tax officer in Bohemian-Röhren in the Bohemian Forest. He attended the German high schools in Saaz and Prachatitz and studied German, history and geography at the German University in Prague . In 1920 he did his doctorate with Primus Lessiak with a dialect geography of the Bohemian Forest . In the following 25 years Kubitschek worked as a high school professor in Dux, Prague, Plan near Marienbad, Eger and Pilsen.

Together with the local historian Josef Blau and the poet Hans Watzlik founded and edited Kubitschek from 1919 published by Moldavia in Budweis appearing Böhmerwäldler village books , as their first band he the Hirschauerstücklein issued. In 1920, Kubitschek and his teachers Karl Hofer, Karl Gaier, August Michl and others founded the local history working group “Goldener Steig” in the Prachatitz district marked.

Rudolf Kubitschek knew how to present the results of his archive and field research on settlement history, linguistic folklore and dialect geography in a generally understandable manner.

Works

• Hirschauerstücklein. Budweis 1919.
• Böhmerwäldler Bauernschwänke. Vienna, Prague, Leipzig 1920.
• Catfish and the Catfish. (together with Valentin Schmidt). Budweis 1921.
• The Fürstenhut woodworking settlement. Passau 1921.
• Peasant puzzle. Passau 1922.
• From the names of the homeland. General plan 1923.
• Böhmerwäldler ridicule book. Prachatitz 1925.
• A hundred old German taunts. Reichenberg 1926.
• The dialects of the Bohemian Forest. Pilsen 1927.
• “Deep in the Bohemian Forest”. The native song of the Bohemian Forests. Pilsen 1931.
• Eleanor Grove. One hundred years of the art of glassmaking in the Bohemian Forest. Eger 1932.
• Waldler. Entertaining stories. Pilsen 1934.
• The origin of the catfish. Prague 1935.
• Purrs and purrs from the Bohemian Forest. Carlsbad 1939.
• Bohemian Forest - not Bohemian Forest. Winterberg 1939.
• All kinds of Bavarian and Bohemian. Folklore essays. Winterberg 1940.
• Pilsen. Past and present. Pilsen 1940.
• Happiness and blessings. Old and new Sumava mountains. Karlsbad, Leipzig 1942.
• The Bohemian Forest laughs. Purring and swaying. Carlsbad 1944.
• Silviculture layers. Vienna 1948 (posthumously).

literature

• Archive of the Böhmelwald Museum Passau, Biographical Collection: Rudolf Kubitschek.
• Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1943. Berlin 1943, columns 610–611.
• Viktor E. Zimmer: Professor Dr. Rudolf Kubitschek. In: Böhmerwäldler Heimatbrief. No. 12, Geisenfeid 1949, p. 60.
• Karl Franz Leppa: Rudolf Kubitschek in memory. In: Hoam! Monthly magazine for the Bohemian Forests, 3rd year, Waldkirchen 1950, No. 5, p. 7.
• Josef Oswald: Bavarian homeland movement and research between the two world wars. In: Historical yearbook of the Görres Society. 72nd volume, Munich 1953, pp. 604-14.
• Heinrich Renner: Dr. Rudolf Kubitschek, the last days of his life. In: Böhmerwäldler Heimatbrief. No. 76, Geisenfeid 1954, p. 209.
• Eduard Eisenmeier: The work of Rudolf Kubitschek. In: Böhmerwäldler Heimatbrief. No. 79, Geisenfeid 1955, pp. 289-291.
• Eduard Eisenmeier: Bibliography on the works of Rudolf Kubitschek. Typescript 1955 (in the archives of the Böhmerwaldmuseum Passau, estate of Eduard Eisenmeier; this directory has since been significantly expanded and corrected).
• Paul Praxl : Rudolf Kubitschek. In: East Bavarian border marks. Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde, Volume 2, Passau 1958, pp. 308–310.
• Karl Keusch: Back then at home in the Bohemian Forest. (Fürstenhut) Grafenau 1992, p. 24, 6269, 73.
• Paul Praxl: Rudolf Kubitschek 1895 - 1945 - 1995. In: Hoam! Volume 46, December 1995.

Web links

• Works by Rudolf Kubitschek in the Gutenberg-DE project