Strindberg Museum Saxen

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The Strindbergmuseum Saxen is located in Markt Saxen in Machland in the Perg district in Upper Austria . It is the only Strindberg museum outside Sweden and is run by the Saxen cultural association.

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The museum was established in 1997 on the initiative of Friedrich Buchmayr , who also provided the concept, and the municipality of Saxen.

The focus is on August Strindberg's stays in Saxen and Klam between 1893 and 1896 and the related works. Strindberg was married to Maria Friederike Uhl (Frida) from 1893 to 1897 . He lived temporarily in Dornach Castle or an outbuilding of the castle and, after the marriage was broken, in an inn in Klam (rose room at the church innkeeper).

A number of original letters and manuscripts, contemporary photos and the piano he bought at the time can be seen in the museum.

Motifs from the region, such as a waterfall in the Klamschlucht , were used as models by Strindberg, who was also a painter. Others, such as the hammer mill , the Leonstein natural monument , the Bergmayr mill and the Saustall, found their way into his novels. In the fifteenth chapter of his work Inferno , he describes the visions he experiences while walking through the Klamschlucht.

In 2009, the Strindberg-Klamschlucht cultural hiking trail was signposted, which leads from Saxen to Klam. The museum is also located on the Donausteig and the Danube Cycle Path .

Awards

  • Museum of the Month May 2007 (Certificate of Honor is awarded to high-quality and innovative museums by the Upper Austrian Museum Association)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Gerstinger : Austria - Holdes fairy tale and bad dream. August Strindberg's marriage to Frida Uhl . Herold Wien 1987, ISBN 3-7008-0296-X at the Austrian National Library
  2. ↑ Arge Strindbergweg-Klamschlucht, market communities Klam and Saxen, folder Klamschlucht and Strindbergweg, Grein, 2009 PDF
  3. ↑ Strindbergmuseum voted Museum of the Month, in: Perger Tips from May 9, 2007
  4. ^ Austrian culture in the north, Austrian cultural work in Sweden, in: Outlook 15, magazine for Austrian culture and language, 8th year, May 2002, page 18f

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '27 "  N , 14 ° 47' 25.2"  E