Felix Braun
Felix Braun (born November 4, 1885 in Vienna, † November 29, 1973 in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian writer, poet and playwright.
Life
Felix Braun was of Jewish descent and was born in Vienna. His mother died in 1888 at the birth of his sister Kate Brown -Prager, which should also be a writer. The father, Edward Brown, married a year later, the sister of the deceased wife, and in 1896 Robert Brown was born. Felix Braun studied from 1904 in Vienna art history, philosophy, archeology, and his doctorate 1908.
In 1905 he published his first literary work in the Neue Freie Presse, the Austrian Rundschau, the Neue Rundschau in 1910 and features editor of the Berlin National Zeitung.
In 1912, he married Hedwig friend, from whom he was divorced in 1915. 1917 Brown resigned from the Jewish community. As an editor in the publishing house Georg Müller in Munich he met eminent writers know, including Hans Carossa, Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke. From 1928 to 1938 Brown was Associate Professor of German Literature in Palermo and Padua. In 1935 he was baptized Catholic. In 1939 he emigrated to Britain, where he remained until 1951 and taught as a lecturer literature and art history. On his return to Austria, worked as a lecturer at the Felix Brown Reinhardt-Seminar and at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Felix Brown received an honorary grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group C 32, Number 36). In 1977 in Vienna Dobling ( 19th District ), the Felix- Brown - alley named after him.
Services
Felix Brown was secretary of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and friends with this. He was one of the early 20th century to the group Jung-Wien and was acquainted with many writers such as Stefan Zweig, Anton wild goose or Max Brod. He was New Romantics, wrote the refined, cultivated plants in all literary genres. The subjects of his works revolve around religion, antiquity and his native Austria.
Felix Brown was the editor of an anthology of German poetry, The Millennial rosebush, which appeared in numerous editions since 1937 and was one of the most popular collections of its kind. He also translated Thomas à Kempis and John of the Cross.
Brown was due to widely scattered relationships or contacts (up to 1970) in possession of a miscellaneous collection of over 1200 major autographs, which he last will and testament bequeathed to the Vienna City Library.
Awards and honors
Works
- Poems, 1909
- Stories and legends, 1910
- The shadow of death, Roman 1910
- Till Eulenspiegel's empire, Comedy 1911
- New Life, Poems 1912
- Transfiguration, 1916
- Tantalus, tragedy in 1917
- The dreams in Vineta, legends 1919
- Hyacinth and Ismene, dramatic poem 1919
- The hair of Berenice, poems, 1919
- Attila, Legend 1920
- Actaeon, tragedy in 1921
- The deeds of Hercules, Roman 1921
- Wonder hours, stories 1923
- The invisible guest, novel, 1924, revised 1928
- The snow rainbow, 1925
- The inner life, poems, 1926
- German spirits, essays, 1925
- The forgotten mother, stories 1925
- Esther, drama 1926
- The Son of Heaven, Mystery 1926
- Agnes Altkirchner, Roman 1927, revised 1965
- Two stories of children, 1928
- Healing the Children, stories 1929
- Magic Lantern, stories and legends 1932
- An Indian fairy tale, 1935
- Selected Poems, 1936
- Emperor Charles V, in 1936 tragedy
- The sting in the soul, novel 1948
- The light of the world, autobiography in 1949, revised in 1962
- The daughter of Jairus, Drama 1950
- Letters in the Hereafter, stories 1952
- Aeschylus, Dialogues 1953
- Viola d' Amore, selected poems from the years 1903-1953, 1953
- The musical country, Essays in 1952, revised in 1970
- The Ice Flower, Essays 1955
- Rudolf the Founder, Drama 1955
- Joseph and Mary, Drama 1956
- Irina and the Czar, Drama 1956
- Orpheus tragedy in 1956
- Remains Unerbittbar past, selection 1957
- Conversation about the founder folder of my great grandfather, 1958
- The love of heaven, 1959
- Palermo and Monreale, 1960
- Imaginary conversations, 1960
- Speaking at Max Mell, 1960
- Time companions, encounters, 1963
- The four winds, Christmas story, 1964
- Beautiful in Southern Italy - Palermo, Essays 1965
- Calls of the Spirit, Essays 1965
- Call for panel, mystery 1965
- The secular monastery, stories 1965
- The carnation, Poems 1914-1965 1965
- Early and late dramas 1909-1967, 1971
As editor
- Beethoven in conversation. Insel Verlag, Austrian Library 9 (1915), Island Library 346/2 (1952 ); Bergland, Vienna, 1971
- Schubert friends. A picture of life. Insel Verlag, ÖB 26 (1917 ), IB 168/2 (1925)
- Audiences with Emperor Joseph. Insel Verlag, ÖB 5 (1915 )
- Novalis, fragments. Selection of Felix Brown, IB 257 (1919)
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: Julie, or the New Heloise, Kiepenheuer, Potsdam 1920 & dsb, Leipzig 1980. again Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 2005
- Bettina von Arnim, The Love diary, Rikola, 1921
- Adalbert Stifter's letters. Insel Verlag, ÖB 22 (1917 ), IB 207
- Beethoven Intimo, Cappelli, Bologna, 1927
- The Millennial rosebush, Herbert Reichner, Vienna, 1937 ( published anonymously and without Jewish writers )
- The Millennial rosebush, as amended in 1949, 1953, 1958, 1973 ( last version) Zsolnay, Vienna
- The Millennial rosebush, Paperback, Heyne, Munich, first edition 1977 Ex Libris
- The Millennial rosebush, ( co-editor Tatjana Popovic ), Paperback, Diana / Heyne, 2002
- The Lyre of Orpheus, Poetry of peoples, Zsolnay, 1952 and Heyne, 1978
- You and I, Strange Love Stories, Amandus, 1953
- The Book of mothers, together with a couple Kathe Brown -Prager, Zsolnay, 1955
- Rest in the distance, prose by Käthe Brown -Prager, Austria. Publishing Company 1972
Translations
- Thomas à Kempis: The Imitation of Christ in 1935 and 1949
- Thomas à Kempis: The rose garden Sacred Songs, Styria, 1937
- John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul, Otto Müller, 1952
- Vouchers, renderings, founder Library, 1972