Siegfried Freiberg

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Siegfried Freiberg (born May 18, 1901 in Vienna , † June 5, 1985 in Veghel ) was an Austrian writer and librarian .

Photo by Ludwig Schwab (1935)

Live and act

After graduation studied Siegfried Freiberg at the University of Vienna German , history and art history , where in 1925 graduated as Dr. phil. He then worked 1926-1947 as a librarian at the University of World Trade .

In the time of Austrofascism Freiberg was one of the dictatorship's model writers. He helped found the Austrian Chamber of Literature in autumn 1936. He was also a member of the Association of German Writers Austria (BdSÖ) founded in 1936 , which worked intensively on the integration of Austria into the German Empire. As such, he was a contributor to the confessional book of Austrian poets published by the BdSÖ in 1938 in Vienna's Krystall-Verlag , in which the authors enthusiastically welcomed the annexation of Austria . Freiberg was also a lecturer in the New Life organization , which was founded in 1936 and was subordinate to the cultural department of the Vaterländische Front (VF) and was intended to guide leisure activities - like the Italian Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro and the German Kraft durch Freude (KdF). Shortly before the Second World War , he and a group of Austrian writers paid homage to Adolf Hitler .

After the Second World War, Freiberg moved to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1947 , where he was library director from 1950–1964. He was a member of the Innviertel artists' guild and worked as a writer for many years. Despite his involvement with the regimes of Austrofascism and National Socialism, he was honored and awarded several times.

Awards

Works

Freiberg's writings were poems influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke ( Elegies and Oden , 1935). His first novels (Salt and Bread, 1935; Die harte Freude, 1938) made him famous. He is also the author of dramas , radio plays , essays and travel books .

  • Elegies and odes . Vienna: Gerold, 1935.
  • The hard joy . Salzburg / Leipzig: Pustet, 1938.
  • The love that doesn't burn . Vienna: Luser, 1940.
  • Nebuk, a stork story . Vienna: Wiener Verlagsgesellschaft, 1942.
  • From morning to evening . Vienna: Wiener Verlag, 1943.
  • Where the angel should stand ... Parable and account. Vienna: Bauer, 1948.
  • Security . Vienna / Cologne: Amandus-Verlag, 1960.
  • Salt and bread . Vienna: Zsolnay, 1965.
  • Law in fire . Vienna: Schendl, 1968.
  • Interlude at the lake . Graz: Leykam, 1971.
  • Between freedom and beyond . Vienna: Austrian Publishing House, 1973.

Secondary literature

  • German Biographical Encyclopedia . Second, revised and expanded edition. Volume 3 Einstein - Görner. Ed. Rudolf Vierhaus . Munich: Saur. 2006. p. 482.
  • Klaus Amann: "The literary-political prerequisites and backgrounds for the 'connection' of Austrian literature in 1938". In: Journal for German Philology 101/1982. P. 232.
  • Horst Jarka: "On literary and theater politics in the 'corporate state'". In: Kadrnoska, Franz (ed.). Departure and decline. Austrian culture between 1918 and 1938. Book series of the Austrian magazine for folklore. Volume 20 of the new series. Vienna / Munich / Zurich: Europa-Verlag, 1981.
  • Hans Giebisch / Gustav Gugitz: Bio-Bibliographisches Literaturlexikon Austria from the beginnings to the present . Vienna: Hollinek, 1963.
  • Murray G. Hall / Gerhard Renner : Handbook of the estates and collections of Austrian authors . (Literature in History, History in Literature, 23). Vienna: Böhlau 1992.
  • Gerhard Renner: The bequests in the Vienna City and State Library . Vienna 1993.
  • Robert Teichl: Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries . Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1951.
  • Isabella Ackerl / Friedrich Weissensteiner: Austrian Personal Lexicon of the First and Second Republic . Vienna: Ueberreuter, 1992.
  • The prominence of the Republic of Austria in the picture . Zurich: Ascot-Verlag, 1962,
  • Lively city. Almanac . Volume 10. Vienna: Office for Culture, Public Education and School Administration of the City of Vienna, 1963.
  • Hans F. Prokop: Austrian literature manual . Vienna: Youth and People, 1974,
  • Adalbert Schmidt: poetry and poet Austria in the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 2. Salzburg: Bergland-Buch 1964, p. 383.
  • Official Journal of the City of Vienna . Vienna: City of Vienna - Press and Information Service, May 28, 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amann, Klaus (1982). "The literary-political prerequisites and backgrounds for the 'connection' of Austrian literature in 1938". In: Journal for German Philology 101. p. 232.
  2. ↑ Amann, Klaus (1982). "The literary-political prerequisites and backgrounds for the 'connection' of Austrian literature in 1938". In: Journal for German Philology 101. p. 237.
  3. ↑ Jarka, Horst (1981). "On literary and theater politics in the 'corporate state'". In: Kadrnoska, Franz (ed.). Departure and decline. Austrian culture between 1918 and 1938 . Book series of the Austrian magazine for folklore. Volume 20 of the new series. Vienna / Munich / Zurich: Europa-Verlag. P. 523.
  4. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia (2006). Second, revised and expanded edition. Volume 3 Einstein - Görner. Ed. Rudolf Vierhaus. Munich: Saur. P. 482.
  5. ↑ Freiberg, Siegfried In: Webpräsenz Austria-Forum, Austrian Personal Lexicon of the First and Second Republic by Isabella Ackerl and Friedrich Weissensteiner, 1992
personal data
SURNAME Freiberg, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librarian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1985
Place of death Veghel