Günther Schwab

Günther Schwab ( born October 7, 1904 in Prague, † April 12, 2006 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian writer. Schwab stood out particularly as narrator and essayist, as well as a screenwriter and author of radio plays. The time, in Lower Austria and Styria in Pusterwald acting as forest managers author sat down in his books early for the preservation of the environment (for example, Dance with the Devil, 1958).

Life and work

After the First World War Schwab's family moved to Vienna, where Schwab discovered his love of nature. Here he became a member of the NSDAP and the SA, the last rank Sturmführer since 1930 1949 founded the author's magazine Happy life -. The silent way, a " non-partisan, non-denominational and international magazine for the protection of life ", which later became the organ of the World Federation for the Protection of life ( WSL) was the Schwab 1960, in Salzburg.

Günther Schwab's world federal government over which he presided as president, and he edited the journal life protection has been criticized by various quarters racism. It was particularly problematic that Schwab's novel adventure on the power was a revised edition of 1935 published work man without a people. This book then appeared in Franz- wedding -Verlag, the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP. The book has, in the first edition to clearly nationalist tendencies which were redeemed in the new edition partially. The protection of life -Verlag, Baden-Baden, the novel was published in 1982 201 - 203. Thousand. Schwab spoke out against "overpopulation " and a " negative selection " from. The lack of " natural selection " promotes a degeneration of the people especially the " Europide Great Race " concerns and the " validity loss of the white race in the world " would have the effect.

At Schwab's most famous works include the novels next adventure on the stream, Dance with the Devil, and counting to his children's books dogs novel Seven dachshund and Marisa, but also the forester from Silverwood. This book was published in 1956 in the wake of the 1954 film of the same rotated home. Schwab was already involved in the script originally called the echo of the mountains film.

With the novel The people of Arauli Günther Schwab has written perhaps the most mature of his works. The secluded high mountain of Arauli ( Pusterwald ) is the last refuge for those existences that otherwise no place in the world have more: No outsider can not enter into this kinky community that every foreign influence - even if it is by force - to keep away from looking up. The unprecedented harshness of existence, brutal selfishness and jealousy have almost killed all sense of the good in the people here.

1954 Günther Schwab received the decoration of " gold" of the Conservation League Austria, and in 1980 the Culture Prize of the city of Salzburg. 2004 presented the Second Landtagspräsident Michael Neureiter (ÖVP ) him on the occasion of his 100th birthday conferred by the Federal President Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class and the personal honor cup of Governor Gabi Burgstaller ( SPÖ).

Günther Schwab died on 12 April 2006 at the age of 101 years in Salzburg.

Works (excerpt)

  • Man without a people. Vienna, Leipzig: FG Speidel'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1935 ( from 1949 in a slightly modified version under the title Adventures of electricity ). .
  • The wind over the fields. Vienna, Leipzig: Verlag Tieck 1937.
  • Comrade with the hairy face. Vienna: Wilhelm Frick Verlag, 1941.
  • The happiness on the edge. Vienna: Walther Scheuermann Publisher 1949.
  • Country full of grace. Vienna: Kremayr and Scheriau 1952.
  • The forester from Silverwood. Bonn, Munich, Vienna: Bavarian Agricultural Publishing 1956.
  • Dance with the Devil. Hanover: Adolf Sponholtz Publisher 1958.
  • The Devil's Kitchen. Hanover: Adolf Sponholtz Publisher 1959.
  • The people of Arauli. Vienna: Kremayr and Scheriau 1976.
  • Today, you can laugh about it. Vienna: Scythes -Verlag 1978.
  • Hard to be human. Vienna: Scythes -Verlag 1981.
  • Not playful in the future. Salzburg: publisher " Hill Country Book" in 1984.
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