Anton Wildgans
Anton Wild Goose ( born April 17, 1881 in Vienna, † May 3, 1932 in Mödling, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian poet and playwright.
Life
Wild Goose studied 1900 Law at the University of Vienna and attended lectures by Wilhelm Jerusalem. He received his doctorate in 1908 and worked for two years as coroner until he decided on the profession of independent writer. Twice, in the years 1921/1922 and 1930/1931, he was director of the Burgtheater in Vienna. He was known especially for his socially critical works.
Wild Goose sat down very much for the Austrian government autonomy for as many doubted after the First World War on the viability of the now small state. This positive attitude comes in his speech about Austria from 1930 clearly.
Wild Goose died at the age of 51 years in Mödling and was in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 14 C, Number 6) buried.
He was named the Wildganshof in the 3rd district of Vienna in honor, where there is also a wild goose - bust is. In 1932 also the Wildgansplatz was named after him in the 3rd district.
The Federation of Austrian Industry dedicated to the writer in honor of the 1962 Anton Wild Goose price.
Is being supervised the work on the Anton Wild Goose Company in the house of the poet in Mödling near Vienna by the daughter Ilse wild goose and the grandson of Dr. Ralph Anton wild goose.
His son Frederick Brant (1913-1965) was a composer and professor at the Vienna Academy.
Works (selection)
- Sonnets to Ead, 1913
- Poverty, 1914
- Dies Irae, 1918
- Cain, 1920
- Kirbisch or the gendarme, the shame and happiness. This work, one of the few German hexameter epics, he began in 1925 in the most remote Styrian town of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg, where he dedicated a memorial today. What he meant was the market town Mönichkirchen ( on change), whose inhabitants have forgiven him but the unflattering portrayal and honor him by annual readings.
- Complete Works. Historical- critical edition in eight volumes, edited, composed by Otto drum. Lilly v. Wild Goose. Vienna / Salzburg: joint publishing Bellaria / Pustet, 1948