Rudolf Stibill

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Rudolf Stibill (born July 30, 1924 in Graz , † January 30, 1995 in Ostenfeld near Rendsburg ) was an Austro-German poet .

life and work

After attending primary school in Graz, Stibill switched to grammar school in 1934. From there, the first literary attempts are known from 1941. After graduating from high school in March 1942, he was first called up for military service. Nevertheless, in 1943 he was able to begin studying medicine, then German , philosophy and art history . A first public reading took place in 1945. In 1946 Stibill worked on the publication of the magazine "Austria" . His first volume of poetry "Vox humana" was published in 1947 by A. Pustet in Graz.

In the following years he took part several times in the poet conferences in St. Veit an der Glan and in Pürgg , where he became friends with Christine Lavant . After working as an employee of the ORF , Landesstudio Steiermark, he moved to Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein in 1955 and began teaching there at the Waldorf School. In 1956 he took part in the international poetry competition in Knokke le Zoute in Belgium. In 1968 he married Elisabeth Valett, daughter of the Hamburg poet Dirks Paulun , who died five years later. 1983 followed a second marriage with Gisela Hardt.

After his retirement in 1988, he published several volumes of poetry and an autobiography (two volumes: Voices of the Uncertain , 1992 and Atemwaage , 1995). During this time, Ingrid Knaus wrote a thesis on Stibill and his work. Rudolf Stibill died on January 30, 1995 in Ostenfeld near Rendsburg.

Recognitions

Works

  • Vox humana. Pustet, Graz-Salzburg 1947.
  • The delicious flame. Otto Müller, Salzburg 1951.
  • The boy and the sea. Leykam, Graz 1958.
  • Sun City people. Youth and People, Vienna-Munich 1964.
  • Marks of life. Styria, Graz-Vienna 1975.
  • Voices of uncertainty. Styria, Graz 1992.
  • La ville imaginaire. Engel and Co., Stuttgart 1994.
  • Breathing scales. Styria, Graz-Vienna 1995.
  • Two poems. 1948. 1978. Facsimile print, two reviews of Stibill v. H. Hellmer and A. Kolleritsch. Rudolf Stibill Society, Rendsburg 1999.
  • Another poem for the portfolio, and a review of Stibill v. B. Engholm, 2004.

Stibill Society

In 1998 the Rudolf Stibill Gesellschaft eV was founded in Austria and in 2004 the Rudolf Stibill Gesellschaft eV, a non-profit association in Germany based in Rendsburg. In 1999, for his 75th birthday, the Rudolf Stibill Gesellschaft eV published a jewelery folder with facsimile prints of poems and in 2001 the first performance of the composition “Jahreszeiten” by Christian Gayed based on poems by Rudolf Stibill ( Magnolia, White Rose, Autumn I, Winter from “Vox Humana "). In the same year, the THANK YOU TOUCHES were held for the first time, a literary-musical event that takes place every November according to a note found in the estate of Stibill.

  • 2002: THANK YOU, text and music literature from Jewish culture.
  • 2003: In the museum of the Rendsburg cultural center the exhibition: Breathing balance, LÄNDER CITIES PEOPLE, visual artists in the life of Rudolf Stibill. The opening was done by Björn Engholm .

As part of the exhibition, the seasons and Stibill settings by Peter-Michael Riehm (The Wanderer's Autumn, The Messenger, Request for Sleep) were performed again.

  • November: THANK YOU Text and music literature from Turkey.
  • 2006 THANKS, text and music literature from the Netherlands.
  • 2007 THANKS, text and music literature from Hungary.

Stibill's estate is in the Brenner Archive (Innsbruck), where it was sorted, registered and posted on the Internet. On the occasion of his birthdays and days of death, the societies in Germany and Austria always hold public celebrations, for example on the 10th anniversary of his death a memorial event in the Literaturhaus in Innsbruck and a reading and concert in the monastery church in Cismar , Ostholstein.

literature

  • Anja Ross: Between two streams of time. National Socialism and the Post-War Period in Rudolf Stibill's autobiographical books . (Dissertation) Akademischer Verlag, Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-88099-420-X

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personal data
SURNAME Stibill, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1995
Place of death Ostenfeld near Rendsburg