Victor Wittner
Victor Wittner , also Viktor Wittner , pseudonym Vivo , (born March 1, 1896 in Herța , Romania ; died October 27, 1949 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer.
Life
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Victor Wittner was the son of a doctor and grew up in Suceava . He began studying medicine in Vienna in 1914, but was drafted and served in the Austrian Army in the First World War . After the end of the war he worked as a freelance writer and theater critic in Vienna, including for the newspaper Die Hour and the magazine Die Bühne . Wittner worked as an editor from 1928 and from January 1930 to May 1933 as editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Der Cross-Section, published in Berlin . Magazine of the current eternal values . In 1932 his comedy Ein Herr Herbst was performed at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna.
After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he went back to Vienna, where he often had to change apartments due to poverty. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he fled to Prague and then to Switzerland. He was first interned and then lived in refugee shelters in Zurich . He did not receive a work permit in Switzerland until 1945. From 1947 he stayed in Vienna again for a time.
His grave is in the area of the honorary graves (30C, row 15, no. 6) in the Vienna Central Cemetery .
Viktor-Wittner-Gasse in Vienna-Essling was named after him in 1958.
Works (selection)
- Gaps, complaints, clarifications: poems . Leipzig: Sphinx, 1914
- Jump on the street. Poems . Berlin: The Forge , 1924
- The man between the window and the mirror. New poems . Vienna: Zsolnay, 1929
- A Mr. Herbst . Drama. Vienna: Marton, 1933
- Everyday life of the eyes. Sonnets . Zurich: Morgarten, 1941 (set to music by Robert Schollum )
- The hair deposit. Poems from the estate . Vienna: Bergland-Verlag 1956 (New poetry from Austria, 23)
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1255
- Eva Reichmann : Victor Wittner, a German-speaking poet from Romania in the magazine of Germanists in Romania, issue 1–2 (11–12), 1997, pp. 191–200 Society of Germanists in Romania (GGR)
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1494.
- Armin A. Wallas: Wittner, Victor. In: Killy Literaturlexikon , Volume 12, 2011, p. 493
- Eva Reichmann : Wittner, Victor. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 544f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Victor Wittner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Victor Wittner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Victor Wittner , at Literaturhaus Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ viennatouristguide: Viktor Wittner , accessed on October 14, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittner, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wittner, Viktor; Vivo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herța , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1949 |
| Place of death | Vienna |