Zdenko from Kraft

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Zdenko von Kraft (born March 7, 1886 in Gitschin / Bohemia as Zdenko Josef August Kraft Edler von Helmhacker , † November 7, 1979 in Munich ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Zdenko von Kraft was the son of an Austrian officer . He attended schools in Przemyśl , Lemberg , Klagenfurt , Vienna , Budweis and Krems . After graduating from high school , he studied for two semesters at the Technical University in Vienna, but then switched to an acting school . He later began painting training at the Vienna Art Academy . He served as Director - apprentice at the Burgtheater worked and published his first literary works. From 1913 he lived as a freelance writer.

After the end of the First World War , in which he participated from 1915 to 1918, Zdenko von Kraft lived first in Upper Austria , then in Württemberg . From 1936 he was based in Neckartailfingen ; from 1955 to 1969 he was a research assistant at the Richard Wagner Archive in Bayreuth .

Zdenko von Kraft was the author of novels , stories , biographies and successful plays . While his early work was still influenced by Ludwig Ganghofer , he later tried to transfer musical formal principles to his narrative works. The focus of his work was on biographical and historical novels ; particularly successful were the novel Maria Theresia - from alone in 1918, the year of publication, 98,000 copies were sold - the Richard-Wagner-trilogy (consisting of the volumes barricades , Love Death and Wahnfried ), but also his book about the Sioux - chief Sitting Bull .

Zdenko von Kraft was one of the supporters of Hitler and the National Socialist regime in the Third Reich . In 1952, his book Wikings letzte Fahrt was on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR .

In 1951 he wrote a highly euphemistic, war-glorifying story of the Bayreuth Festival for the Bayreuth Festival Book, and in 1969, under the title The Son, an equally embellished biography of Siegfried Wagner .

Works

  • Glosses on the universal language Esperanto , Leipzig 1909
  • Strong hearts , Leipzig [a. a.] 1909
  • Adagio consolante , Constance 1910
  • March green and autumn leaves , Leipzig 1910
  • The Easter Prince , Constance 1912
  • The Way of the Cross to Bayreuth , Constance 1913
  • What I would like , Konstanz i. B. 1914
  • The voice of Helgoland , Leipzig 1916
  • Solstice of happiness , Berlin
    • 1 (1917)
    • 2 (1917)
  • Wikings last trip , Leipzig 1917
  • Maria Theresia , Berlin 1918
  • Tobias Wilder's way to the height , Berlin [u. a.] 1918
  • Barricades , Leipzig [a. a.] 1920
  • Missa solemnis , Berlin [a. a.] 1920
  • Liebestod , Leipzig [u. a.] 1921
  • Alljeder department store , Berlin [u. a.] 1922
  • Wahnfried , Leipzig [a. a.] 1922
  • Lord Byron's pilgrimage , Leipzig 1924
  • Brother Silverius , Stuttgart 1925
  • Ludwig Ganghofer as a poet of the Berchtesgadener Land , Stuttgart 1925
  • Michael Unknown , Stuttgart 1925
  • The completion , Stuttgart 1925
  • The miller's son , Stuttgart 1927
  • Envy of Youth , Berlin 1929
  • The immoderate heart , Berlin 1930
  • One meter ninety-seven , Stuttgart 1933
  • Is that in the program? , Vienna 1933
  • As a guest of my wife , Vienna 1934
  • Race to Lake Constance , Stuttgart 1934
  • Grabbe returns home , Oldenburg [u. a.] 1936
  • Sitting Bull , Stuttgart 1936
  • The dreamer in tails , Berlin 1937
  • The death song , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1939
  • Alexanderzug , Berlin 1940
  • The three maidens of Orleans , Berlin 1940
  • Ms. Aja's puppet shows , Berlin 1940
  • Cabinet crisis in Ischl , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1940
  • A man breaks his word , Berlin 1940
  • Why did you keep silent? , Berlin 1940
  • The Little Fall of Man , Berlin 1941
  • Quartet under Linden , Leipzig 1941
  • Evening in Bayreuth , Berlin 1943
  • The people from Färbergasse , Graz [u. a.] 1943
  • The Guardian Angel , Berlin 1946
  • Richard Wagner , Munich [a. a.] 1953
  • The kidnapped model , Hanover 1954
  • Rich of this world , Munich 1954
  • Wagner , Bayreuth 1956
  • The Festspielhaus in Bayreuth , Bayreuth 1958
  • Great musicians , Munich 1961
  • Confusion or decay? , Graz [u. a.] 1964
  • The son , Graz [u. a.] 1969
  • Vienna's famous onlookers , Graz [u. a.] 1978
  • Between evening and morning , an incident in 3 acts, 19 ??

Editing

  • Contemporary poetry from the publishing house Adolf Bonz & Comp. , Stuttgart 1927

Translations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Wagner : You shouldn't have any other gods besides me / Richard Wagner - Ein Minefeld Propylaeen, Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-549-07441-1 p. 251 and footnote 638 ( page no longer available , search in web archives: PDF , 2.2 MB).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bilder.buecher.de
  2. ↑ According to the Lübeck documents, the piece available in 1941 was premiered on October 2, 1942. The printed theater ticket is based on the title of the work "World Premiere!" There is another lyrical playlist in which Zdenko von Kraft said "To a highly adorable, wise and amiable audience!" turns and comments on his piece. The review by Ernst Häßler in the Lübecker Zeitung vol. 61, no. 259 of October 4, 1942 overwrites the article with "First performance in the city theater. The Little Fall of Man - Comedy about Albrecht Dürer by Zdenko von Kraft." See Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck theater world." The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 268-270, 569, 612, endnote 1094.
personal data
SURNAME Kraft, Zdenko von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraft Edler from Helmhacker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gitschin
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1979
Place of death Munich