Viktor Kastner

Viktor Kästner (born December 30, 1826 in Kerz , † August 29, 1857 in Sibiu ) was a Saxon dialect poet from Transylvania .

Life

Viktor Kästner was the son of pastor Daniel Kästner (1790–1867) and Josefine Elisabeth, née. Heinrich (1801–1872). He was born as the third of six children on December 30, 1826 in Kerz.

Kästner spent his childhood and youth in the rectory in Kerz. From 1845 to 1847 he studied at the Sibiu Law Faculty. His civil service career led him a. a. to Broos , until he finally settled in Sibiu and started a family. One of his most popular and best-known poems is the fairy tale “Vum bisen Hanz”, in which “coarse folk humor finds happy and fitting expression” ( Adolf Schullerus ).

Kästner's Transylvanian-Saxon poems, arranged by his father, appeared for the first time in 1862 at Steinhäußer in Sibiu under the title: "Poems in Transylvanian-Saxon dialect, along with free metric translation into High German by Victor Kästner". A new edition with a detailed foreword was obtained from Adolf Schullerus in 1895, of which a “reprint” was published in 1926 by W. Krafft in Sibiu. In 1929 Martin Kutschis obtained a collection of Kästner poems set to music, of which only "De Brockt um Ald (Um Ald, um Ald, um giele Rin ...)" is sung.

Works

Poems in Transylvanian-Saxon dialect, together with free metrical translation into High German by Victor Kästner . Printed and published by Theodor Steinhaußen, Sibiu, 1862
- Poems in the Transylvanian-Saxon dialect. From Viktor Kästner . 2nd edition, printed and published by W. Krafft, Hermannstadt, 1895

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Kästner, Victor . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 352 f. ( Digitized version ).
Friedrich Müller : Kästner, Joseph Victor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 451 f.
Kästner, Josef Viktor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 170.
Franz Menges: Kaestner, Viktor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 740 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Dieter Kessler: The German literatures of Transylvania, the Banates and the beech country. From the revolution to the end of the First World War (1848–1918). Cologne, Böhlau, 1997
^ Siebenbürgische Zeitung, Volume 4 of March 15, 2007
↑ Kurt Galter "Viktor Kästner, Life and Work" (in "Tradition and Progress", Issue 15, publisher: Stephan Ludwig Roth-Gesellschaft für Pädagogik eV)

personal data
SURNAME	Kastner, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kästner, Joseph Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Transylvanian-Saxon dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH	Candle
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1857
Place of death	Sibiu

[1] Dieter Kessler: The German literatures of Transylvania, the Banates and the beech country. From the revolution to the end of the First World War (1848–1918). Cologne, Böhlau, 1997

[2] Siebenbürgische Zeitung, Volume 4 of March 15, 2007

[3] Kurt Galter "Viktor Kästner, Life and Work" (in "Tradition and Progress", Issue 15, publisher: Stephan Ludwig Roth-Gesellschaft für Pädagogik eV)