Karel Klostermann
Faustin Karel Klostermann ( born February 13, 1848 in Haag am Hausruck, Austria, according to another source in Horn, † July 17, 1923 in Štěkeň ) was a German writer and tschechischsprachiger. He also wrote under the pseudonym of Faustin.
Life
Klostermann was born as the first of ten children of the physician Josef Klostermann from Schlösselwald at Rehberg in the Bohemian Forest and his wife Charlotte in Haag am Hausruck or Horn in Lower Austria. After graduating in 1865 in Pisek, he studied from 1866 to 1868 medicine at the University of Vienna. For unknown reasons, he did not complete the study and entered 1871 in the place of tutor in northern Bohemia. A year later, he worked as a journalist for the magazine hikers in Vienna. At the German state secondary school in Pilsen Klostermann was from 1873 teacher of French and German language. After five years, after he had married, he was a tenured teacher and remained there until his retirement in 65 years. From 1907 Klostermann was a member of the City Council of Pilsen. He was made an honorary citizen of the city of Pilsen and one next to Adalbert Stifter and Maximilian Schmidt of the most important writers of the Bohemian Forest.
Beginning in 1885 its written in German language stories appeared in the newspaper politics. Since Klostermann's written in German book Bohemian Forest sketches had no success, he turned as a writer amplifies the Czech language ( the son of the free Judge, 1890). 1892 his first novel was published from the world of the forest solitudes, to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences distinguished with a price. Between 1901 and 1919 published ten of his fourteen novels and ten anthologies of short stories. Five of these novels were awarded the annual prize of this company.
In July 1923, died Faustin Karel Klostermann in the convent of the Congregation of the Order of Jesus at Castle woman Steken in South Bohemia and was buried in Pilsen.
In 2008, the Czech post brought out a special stamp in honor of Karel Klostermann.
Poet of the Bohemian Forest eV in Grafenau two memorial stones on both sides of the border with the inscription - after 1998 were from cross-border club Karel Klostermann: Karel Klostermann - built apostles of reconciliation between Germans and Czechs.
Works
The landscape and the people of the Bohemian Forest are the subject of Klostermann's. As a realistic - naturalistic narrator he speaks powerfully and without pathos the rough reality of life of the inhabitants of the Bohemian Forest. But his fine sense of humor in his works will always be felt.
His decision to publish only in the Czech language has earned him among the classics of Bohemian narrator a permanent place. Not even the accusation of some national Bohemian reviewers and critics nothing has changed, that the persons in his prose were German. Even the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War the memory of Karel Klostermann unscathed. On the contrary, he who had hitherto been hushed up by German nationalist -minded people with success, has now received the honors that had long since been granted to him. Klostermann plaques, Klostermann roads, Klostermann rooms in museums are there in Šumava only, since Klostermann's compatriots no longer reside there.
The work of the writer, who advocated understanding between the Czech and German inhabitants of Bohemia and especially of the Bohemian Forest, has been rediscovered on the German side only recently. The publisher Karl Stutz in Passau has re-released some of his works.
- Šumava sketches. stories in 1890
- Rychtářův syn. 1890 (Eng. The son of the free converter. Stories. Stutz, Passau 1998)
- Ze světa lesních samot. Novel in 1891 (Eng. From the world of forest solitudes. , 1993)
- V ráji šumavském. Roman 1893 ( In German Bohemian Forest Paradise. Stutz, Passau 2005)
- Za štěstím. Roman 1895
- V srdci šumavských hvozdů. stories in 1896
- Skláři. Novel in 1897 (Eng. The glassmakers. Stutz, Passau 2006)
- Hostinný dum, Domek v Polední ulici. Roman 1898
- Bily samum. Roman 1903
- Spisy Karla monastery manna. 25 volumes from 1904 to 1928
- Ze Šumavskeho Podlesí. stories in 1908
- Jiříčkův zimní výlet, Robinson na Otave. Youth novel 1911
- Funny and sad from the Bohemian forest. The Sumava sketches other part (formed 1885-87 ). Stutz, Passau 1997
- Pan Profesor (Eng. The Professor. Stutz, Passau 1999)
- Faustin's Stories from the Bohemian Forest. Stutz, Passau 2001
- The heirs of the Bohemian Forest Paradise. Book and Art Publishing Upper Palatinate, Amberg 2002