Wolfgang Wolfring
Wolfgang Wolfring (born November 5, 1925 in Vienna ; † August 10, 2001 there ) was an Austrian classical philologist .
Life
He completed his high school education in Vienna, at the well-known secondary schools Schottengymnasium and Akademisches Gymnasium , where he received the decisive impulses for his lifelong passionate love for classical antiquity . After graduating from school in 1943, at the age of eighteen, he was immediately drafted into military service. In January 1945, in the last months of the Second World War , he suffered a terrible war injury while trying to bring an injured comrade to safety: he stepped on a mine and thereby lost his left leg and parts of his right foot. Despite this severe physical handicap, she studied classical philology (Latin, Greek, ancient history and archeology) at the University of Vienna . In 1949 he received his doctorate in philosophy and passed the teaching examination . Afterwards he collected his teaching practice at several high schools in Vienna and ended up in his former school, the Academic Gymnasium, in 1955. Here he taught the languages Greek and Latin and between 1960 and 1996 performed numerous classical Greek dramas with students and graduates of the school . In addition to the educational and artistic achievements, Wolfring was available to the Ministry of Education as a member of the project group for the redesign of the curricula for Latin and Greek. He was active in teacher training and continuing education as well as a lecturer at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Vienna. Wolfring was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .
Services
For more than thirty years, from 1960 to 1996, the name and reputation of the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna was linked to the history of the “Greek theater” under Wolfgang Wolfring. The following list of performances demonstrates an almost unbelievable creativity and ability to get people excited about such a demanding joint venture. Wolfring himself worked not only as a director , but also as a dramaturge , translator and editor of translations. Faithfulness to the work and the language were particularly important to him. Sometimes one or the other teacher colleague may have seen the theater as a distraction from the actual school purpose, but time has taught everyone: nothing sticks in a student's memory more than participating in such an event, nothing is for a class and school community more binding than these shared experiences. He also took many of his graduates to places of worship in ancient Greece as part of their graduation trips .
| year | performance | year | performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Euripides : Alcestis | 1960 | Menander : Dyscolus |
| 1962 | Sophocles : Philoctetes | 1963 | Euripides: The Trojans |
| 1965 | Aeschylus : Oresty | 1966 | Euripides: Hippolytus with a wreath |
| 1967 | Aeschylus: Prometheus bound | 1968 | Sophocles: Oedipus |
| 1971 | Euripides: The Bacchantes | 1973 | Sophocles: Electra |
| 1975 | Aristophanes : The frogs | 1977 | Aristophanes: The birds |
| 1980 | Sophocles: Antigone | 1982 | Euripides: Alcestis |
| 1985 | Sophocles: King Oedipus and Oedipus on Colonus | 1988 | Plautus : Amphitryon |
| 1990 | Sophocles: Philoctetes | 1991 | Sophocles: The sniffer dogs |
| 1991 | Euripides: Medea | 1992 | Aeschylus: Oresty |
| 1994 | Euripides: Iphigenia in Aulis | 1995 | Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians |
| 1996 | Euripides: Alcestis |
The protagonists of these performances were the later lawyers Josef and Eduard Wegrostek, Liliana Nelska , Doris Dornetshuber, Gerhard Tötschinger , but also Gabriel Barylli , Paulus Manker , Konstantin Schenk and others in smaller roles .
In addition to these theatrical performances, Wolfring also organized a large number of readings on ancient attitudes to life and ideas under his direction. How attractive these offers were can also be seen in the numerous school radio programs he designed for the ORF on Greek philosophy, poetry and history, as well as on the survival of Greek dramas on the modern stage.
Awards
- Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria
- Gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
- Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
Fonts
- The poetic unity of the Iliad in the drawing of its main characters , dissertation Vienna 1949
- Ilias and Meleagrie , in: Wiener Studien 66 (1953) 24-49
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolfring, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2001 |
| Place of death | Vienna |