Wilhelm Szabo

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wilhelm Szabo (born August 30, 1901 in Vienna ; † June 14, 1986 there ) was a civilian teacher , an Austrian poet and poetry translator.

Life

Wilhelm Szabo was an Austrian poet and author who stylistically belongs to the so-called anti-homeland poetry . Born in Vienna in 1901, he grew up with smallholder foster parents in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel in Lichtenau near Gföhl . Szabo completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Vienna, successfully graduated from the St. Pölten teacher training college and subsequently worked as a primary school teacher, then as a secondary school teacher at various schools in the Waldviertel. In 1933 he first drew literary attention to himself with the publication of the volume of poetry “Das Fremdde Dorf”.

Memorial plaque at the Castelli House in Weitra
Grave of Wilhelm Szabo

In 1937 he married Valerie Gans (1916–1996), who came from a respected Jewish family and who published several excellent works in the 1980s and 1990s with her own prose under the name Valerie Lorenz-Szabo . During the time of the National Socialist dictatorship from 1939 to 1945 he was decommissioned for political reasons and had to earn his living working as a lumberjack, gardener, organist at Zwettl Abbey and as a lecturer at Karl Alber Verlag in Munich . After 1945 he returned to his original profession and eventually became school director and high school councilor in Weitra in the Waldviertel. From this time he had a particularly close and lifelong friendship with Otto Basil . After his retirement, Szabo lived in Vienna-Döbling from 1966 until his death on June 14, 1986 . On June 20, 1986 Wilhelm Szabo was buried in an honorary grave of the municipality of Vienna, in the so-called Ehrenhain of Gruppe 40, number 130, as was his wife Valerie Lorenz-Szabo in 1996.

Literary work

During the 1970s, Szabo also appeared as a translator. The authors he has translated include Robert Frost , Sergej Jessenin , Neidhart von Reuenthal and Elinor Wylie .

Wilhelm Szabo was a board member of the Austrian PEN Club and a founding member of the literature group PODIUM.

Awards

In 2002, the Austrian Writers' Association awarded the so-called Wilhelm Szabo Lyrik Prize on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Wilhelm Szabo's birthday . The prizes go to: Christl Greller , Christian Saalberg , Fritz Popp , Wilhelm Rager , Oskar M. Haniger , Hilde Pexr-Höwart , Peter Paul Wiplinger , Edith Haider , Eva Maria Kittelmann and Hannelore Maria Fritz .

Works

  • The strange village. Poems, Vienna: Krystall-Verlag. 1933
  • In the darkness of the villages. Munich: Alber. 1943
  • The unauthorized. Poems Vienna: Herder. 1947
  • Heart in the wine press. Salzburg: Otto Müller. 1954
  • Country night. Vienna-Munich: youth and people. 1965 (Series: New Perspectives)
  • Snow last winter. Introduction and selection by Johann Gunert . Graz-Vienna: Stiasny. 1966
  • Sound limit. Poems. Vienna: Bergland Verlag. 1974 (profiles and facets; 11)
  • Praise of the dark. Poems 1930–1980. St. Pölten-Vienna: Lower Austrian Press House. 1981
  • Twilight of Childhood. St. Pölten-Vienna: Lower Austrian Press House. 1986
  • And the woods are blacker. Poems. Edited by Sylvia Gruber. Weitra: Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz , 2001. ISBN 3-85252-409-1
  • Thorn in the raspberry lump. - Twilight of Childhood. Prose. Weitra: Verl. Library d. Province, 2001. ISBN 3-85252-400-8
  • The big rascal Transmission and introduction of songs by Neidhart von Reuenthal, Stiasny Verlag, Graz and Vienna 1960
  • Wilhelm Szabo Selected Poems , Podium (Podium Portrait 4), St. Pölten and Vienna 2001
  • Mourning the Fields , recast poems by Sergej Jessenin, Stifterbibliothek Salzburg and Verlag der Neugebauer Press, Bad Goisern 1970
  • Also editor of the collected writings 1932-1934 by Friedrich Sacher .

estate

literature

  • Johann Holzner: Independence at the price of loneliness: About Wilhelm Szabo. In: Johann Holzner, Eberhard Sauermann (Ed.): Messages from the Brenner Archive No. 23/2004. Innsbruck: Brenner Archive. Pp. 37-47.
  • Konstantin Kaiser: Interview with Wilhelm Szabo . DÖW, 1986
  • Valerie Lorenz-Szabo: Wilhelm Szabo. Internal emigration 1938–1945 . o. V., 1995
  • Roman Rocek : Encrypted Messages. Wilhelm Szabo and Erika Mitterer: Poets outsmart the censorship. n.v., 1988
  • Roman Rocek: With your own arms. Wilhelm Szabos resistance to national poetry. In: Johannes Twaroch (Ed.): Lower Austrian literature on the move. Lower Austrian Press House, 1988
  • Daniela Strigl: Experiment on Wilhelm Szabo (1901–1986) . In: Literature and Criticism 317 (1997), pp. 48-55
  • Jörg Thunecke: Negative homeland poetry? On the poetry of Wilhelm Szabo. In: Modern Austrian Literature 29 (1996). H. 3, 4, pp. 187-202
  • Jörg Thunecke: On a rediscovered volume of poetry by Wilhelm Szabos. In: Sightings. Archive - Library - Literary Studies, Vol. 2. Vienna: Turia + Kant 1999, pp. 61–63.
  • Claudia Katharina Weinmar: Wilhelm Szabo - the estate. Works, personal notes, commissioned work. Diploma thesis, Vienna 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literaturhaus . literaturhaus.at. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Szabo, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szabo, Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet, author, translator and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1986
Place of death Vienna