Wilhelm Bortenschlager

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Wilhelm Bortenschlager (born December 29, 1911 in Aurolzmünster ) is an Austrian literary scholar.

Live and act

After attending the humanistic grammar school in Ried im Innkreis , Bortenschlager studied German and classical philology at the University of Vienna . Among his teachers were the Germanist Josef Nadler and the literary historian Hans Rupprich . Bortenschlager completed his studies in 1935 with a dissertation on the poet August von Kotzebue . After taking the teaching examination , he was initially a teacher at the grammar school . He later initiated theater projects and taught at the Federal Pedagogical University in Linz . The often culturally active Bortenschlager was an honorary member of the Innviertel artists' guild .

Wilhelm Bortenschlager was mainly known for his numerous works on German literary history and contemporary literature , which took into account all areas of literature. Among other things, he is the author of a three-volume “German History of Literature” and a lexicon, which is regarded as the standard work on modern Austrian dramatists.

Bortenschlager was in close contact with numerous writers about whom he wrote. Among them are Carl Heinz Kurz , Peter Coryllis and Fritz Hochwälder .

Works (selection)

  • German literary history up to the end of the 19th century . Vienna, Wels, Munich: Leitner 18., revised. Ed., 192 th. 1971
  • History of Spiritual Poetry . Darmstadt 1977 ( ISBN 978-3-87561-596-8 )
  • Kurt Becsi. Playwright of a new worldview . Innsbruck 1981 ( ISBN 978-3-7030-0095-9 )
  • Tyrolean drama and playwright in the 20th century . Darmstadt 1982 ( ISBN 978-3-7053-1711-6 )
  • The unknown Billinger . Innsbruck 1985 (ISBN 978-3-7030-0158)
  • Roman Romay, the fate of a poet . Horn 1991 ( ISBN 978-3-85028-217-8 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Bortenschlager: Kotzebue as a narrator . Philosophical dissertation. University of Vienna 1935
  2. ^ Wilhelm Bortenschlager: Islands. From the life and work of Carl Heinz Kurz . Bovenden: Graphikum Mock 1980 ( ISBN 978-3-921105-98-6 )
  3. ^ Wilhelm Bortenschlager: Between silence and noise, man. Life and work of the militant humanist Peter Coryllis . Darmstadt 1979 ( ISBN 978-3-7053-1081-0 )
  4. ^ Wilhelm Bortenschlager: The playwright Fritz Hochwälder . Innsbruck 1979 ( ISBN 978-3-7030-0069-0 )
personal data
SURNAME Bortenschlager, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurolzmünster