Sepp Rittler

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Sepp Rittler (born August 4, 1892 in Fels am Wagram , † December 12, 1942 in Stockerau ) was an Austrian local poet and founder of the Lower Austrian press .

Life

Rittler's parents ran an inn in Fels am Wagram and encouraged their son to attend the commercial school in Vienna-Strebersdorf and then to Austria, Hungary, northern and southern Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy and the Balkans to Constantinople could travel. During this time he was already composing folk and Heurigen songs. He took his first professional steps as an editorial officer at the Stuttgarter Zeitung .

He was a soldier in World War I and became a war invalid in 1917. Until the end of the monarchy he was a typist in the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry . In 1918 he moved to Kirchberg am Wagram , married and had two children. As a disabled person , he worked at the Kirchberg tax office and later at the Tulln district administration , after which he was a railway official and legal assistant. He was also the landlord in the Kirchberg station buffet and worked as a Kirtag and market stall. He also took a job as an insurer for Anglo Elementary Insurance. and soon became the regional representative for all of Lower Austria .

In 1928 he founded the "Niederösterreichische Presse", a weekly newspaper that was merged in 1929 with the "Kremser Volksblatt" to form the "Niederösterreichische Volksblatt".

Sepp Rittler wrote more than 100 one-act plays and numerous dialect poems. His poems were included in the anthology “Poetry from Lower Austria” - published by Lower Austria. Education and Heimatwerk, Vienna 1971.

Works (selection)

Plays

  • "'S Ghoamnis" - a folk piece with song and dance in three acts with music by Rudolf Kronegger, which was premiered in Krems.
  • "Räuberhauptmann Grasl" - a comedy that was often played.
  • “The treasure in the cellar” - a farce with music by Bernhard Kaempfner
  • “Das Jungfernstüberl” - a piece that, according to the Kirchberg parish chronicle (1931), provoked outrage among the Catholic public and divided Sepp Rittler and the pastors.

Lyrics

  • "I know two blind musicians"
  • "Mei Schatzerl is a conductor", these two songs were set to music by Robert Stolz ,
  • "Battle song of the Viennese", melody by Carl Michael Ziehrer .

Trivia

The Sepp-Rittler-Straße in Kirchberg am Wagram is named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sepp Rittler , on hf-kirchberg.at (Heimatforschung Region Kirchberg am Wagram), accessed on April 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Sepp Rittler on kirchberg-wagram.at, accessed on April 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Rittler, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian homeland poet and founder of the Lower Austrian press
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Fels am Wagram
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1942
Place of death Stockerau