Rudolf Hans Bartsch

Rudolf Hans Bartsch ( born February 11, 1873 in Graz, Styria, † February 7, 1952 in St. Peter near Graz) was an Austrian officer and writer.

Life and work

Bartsch wrote novels and short stories since 1908 that transfigure often sentimental, according to today's critics of the old Austria. After Gero von Wilpert an exceedingly fertile, non-critical narrator from the old Austria with sentimental - amiable novels and short stories, hearted and bittersweet love stories of playful levity ... Even for his first works he was reviewed very positively, for " Twelve from Styria " he was praised by the influential critic Hermann Bahr, acting as the new voice of Austria: " as hilarious as is the new Austria, to which we have wrestled with angry fists. " For Willi Handl was Haindl The Children ( 1909) " undoubtedly the most notable Viennese novel of recent times. " His Schubert novel mushroom, one of the most successful books before the Second World War, served in 1916 as a template for the musical comedy The Dreimaederlhaus the composer Heinrich Berté, which was also filmed.

From Bartsch et al originates the mythological poem embossed Herbstchor to Pan, which tells about the creation of the industrial god Pan and the seasons as symbols of the cycle of life and the transience of the earth in the sense of the changing seasons. The work gained greater prominence when it was set to music in January 1911 by Joseph Marx, at that time the most played song composer of Austria as a single-movement cantata for mixed choir, boys' choir, organ and orchestra. It is, curiously, is the first written for orchestral work by Joseph Marx. The Herbstchor at Pan was first total plays in June 2008 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus under Jiri Belohlavek together with the other choral works by Joseph Marx for the British label Chandos.

In his hometown of Graz and Leibnitz and Mureck streets were named after him.

Awards and honors

  • Honorary Citizen of the City of Graz, 1932
  • Peter Rosegger Prize, 1951
  • In Graz, St. Peter -Hans- Rudolf Bartsch street was named after him.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • Twelve from Styria, 1908
  • Elisabeth Kött, 1909
  • Mushrooms. Schubert novel, 1912
  • The German suffering. A landscaping novel, 1912
  • The story of the Hannerl and their lovers, 1913
  • The last student, Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 1913
  • ER. A book of devotion, 1915
  • The Aviator 1915
  • Woman Utta and the hunter 1915
  • Luke Rabesam, 1917
  • The young poet. Novel, 1918
  • Paganism. The story of a lonely man in 1919
  • Eternal Arcadia! , 1920
  • His Jewish or Jakob Bohme Schuster ball, 1921
  • A Tramp, 1921
  • The Haindl children
  • The little creatures. The story of a small Grisette, 1922
  • The Salige
  • Venus and the girl 's grave. Love story of a Nerd, 1926
  • The lovers and their city, 1927
  • The pharmacy at the blue goose. Novel from a strange borderland, 1928
  • Wild and free. Theme and Variations, 1928
  • The big old hangover. A Schopenhauer history, 1929
  • The seductress. A Viennese history, 1930
  • The great and the small, Klaus, 1931
  • The smile of Marie Antoinette, 1932
  • A German. Zsgestellt from fragments of Erinnergen of Christopher Magnus of Raithenau, 1933
  • The great dream of the little girl from Vienna. A serene state action, 1936
  • Brothers in the storm, 1940
  • If Majesties love, 1949

Stories, novellas

  • Bittersweet love stories, 1910
  • From dying Rococo, 1909
  • Unfulfilled stories
  • Women. 3 short stories, 1918
  • Music. 3 short stories, 1923
  • Short stories, 1924
  • Anecdotes, 1925

Plays

  • Without God. The tragedy of a mother, 1915
  • Distant ship. 3 file (6 pictures ) from the life of the great colonizer John Smith, 1934

Essays

  • The happiness of the German People, 1927
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