Zephyrin Zettl

Zephyrin Zettl (born July 14, 1876 in Stadln , Bohemia , † July 4, 1935 in Vienna ) was a printer and German-speaking dialect poet from the Bohemian Forest .

Life

Plaque

Zettl was born in Stadln ( Stodůlky ) in the central Bohemian Forest . Stadln was one of the "Künischen free peasant courts" . When Zephyrin Zettl was six years old, her parents moved to Vienna. Zettl spent his school days with his parents in Vienna, and during the summer holidays he was with his grandparents in the Bohemian Forest. Zettl did an apprenticeship as a book printer at the Austrian State Printing House in Vienna and made it there as a state official up to the head of materials management. In 1932 he retired as chief controller. Zettl lived with his wife and four children from 1910 to 1927 at Wassergasse 18, in Vienna-Landstrasse , where there is a memorial plaque. His honorary grave is located at the Vienna Central Cemetery (2nd gate, group 12B-R 1 / grave 23).

Zettl wrote his dialect poems in the “Künisch” of his original homeland.

Recognitions

• Annual exhibition 2007 in the Bohemian Forest Museum Vienna

Works

• Waldlerisch 1919
• Woldgsangla 1922
• From us dohoam 1923
• Woldgschichtn 1925

literature

• Karl Franz Leppa : Zephyrin Zettl, the dialect poet of the Bohemian Forest. In: Waldheimat. Monthly for the history, art, regional and folklore of the Bohemian Forest. 7th year 1930. No. 10, pp. 155-158.
• Walter Zettl: The Legacy of Zephyrin Zettl. On the twentieth anniversary of the poet's death. In: My Bohemian Forest. Home magazine for South and West Bohemia. 10th year 1955. No. 7/8, p. 2 f.
• Gloria Aigmüller: The estate of Zephyrin Zettl in the Upper Austrian literature archive in the StifterHaus. A research report. In: Yearbook of the Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria. Vol. 15, 2008. pp. 101-104.

Web links

• Literature by and about Zephyrin Zettl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Sebastian Hofer: Zephyrin Zettl . In: Petra-Maria Dallinger et al. (Ed.): Keywords for Upper Austrian literary history .
• Short biography of Zephyrin Zettl on Böhmerwaldbund Upper Austria ( Memento from November 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Twelve poems (German / Czech) by Zettl and Walter Zettl's article The Legacy of Zephyrin Zettl (Czech) and a biography of Zettl (Czech) with numerous pictures on the website Kohoutí kříž / ´s mockery of the South Bohemian Scientific Library (Jihočeská vědecká knihovna) in Budweis
• Works by Zephyrin Zettl in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Memorial plaque for Zettl and his grave of honor in Vienna