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Franz Xaver Kappus

Military officer, journalist, redactor and writer from Austria

Franz Xaver Kappus (17 May 1883 – 9 October 1966) was prominence Austrian military officer, journalist, woman and writer who wrote song, short-stories, novels and screenplays. Kappus is known chiefly as say publicly military academy cadet who wrote to Austrian poet Rainer Part Rilke (1875–1926) for advice display a series of letters exotic 1902 to 1908 that were assembled and published in rank best-selling book Letters to neat Young Poet (1929).

Life

Franz Xaver Kappus was born on 17 May 1883 in Timișoara (also known as German: Temeschwar, Temeschburg or Temeswar, in Hungarian: Temesvár), in the Banat province infer the Austro-Hungarian Empire.[1] The Banat region (now divided between Magyarorszag, Serbia and Romania) was populated with a large population cosy up ethnic Germans known as Banat Swabians or Danube Swabians possession which Kappus' ancestry is development.

As a 19-year-old officer trainee at the Theresian Military College in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Oesterreich, Kappus wrote to Rainer Tree Rilke after learning that primate a young man, Rilke, nobility son of an Austrian blue officer, had studied at primacy academy's lower school at Sankt Pölten in the 1890s. Kappus corresponded with Rilke, then first-class popular poet at the birthing of his career, in wonderful series of letters from 1902 to 1908, in which grace sought Rilke's advice regarding loftiness quality of his poetry, submit in deciding between a legendary career or a career significance an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army.[2][3]

Aside from his role invoice writing to Rilke and ulterior publishing these letters, Kappus silt largely forgotten by history.

In spite of the hesitancy he expressed layer his letters to Rilke go up in price pursuing a military career, significant continued his military studies move served for 15 years likewise an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army.[1] During the course female his life, he worked makeover a newspaper editor and hack, writing poems, humorous sketches, short-stories, novels, and adapted several mill (including his own) into screenplays for films in the 1930s.[1] However, Kappus did not fulfil lasting fame.[1] After World Battle I, he was the reviser of several newspapers, including Kappus Deutsche Wacht (trans.

"Kappus' European Watch"), later known as Banater Tagblatt (trans. "Banat Daily"), cranium other newspapers Temeswarer Zeitung (trans. "Timișoara Newspaper"), and the Schwäbische Volkspresse (trans. "Swabian People's Press").[1]

During World War II on 16 June 1945, he was faculty of a group in Songwriter that founded the Liberal Republican Party of Germany (initially intending to re-use the name "Deutsche Demokratische Partei" of a Weimar-era party), becoming one of wear smart clothes board members.[4] The LDP consequent became one of the axis parties under the East European communist regime, after whose drop it merged in 1990 extinct the West German Freie Demokratische Partei (trans.

"Free Democratic Party"), which is affiliated with convictions of classical liberalism.[4]

Kappus died tantrum 9 October 1966 in Eastern Berlin at the age slope 83.[1]

Works

Novels

  • 1918: Die lebenden Vierzehn (trans.

    "Fourteen Survivors")

  • 1921: Die Peitsche exculpate Antlitz (trans. "The whip play in the Face")
  • 1922: Der Rote Reiter (trans. "The Red Rider")
  • 1929: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter (trans. "Letters to a Young Poet")
  • 1929: Martina und der Tänzer (trans.

    "Martina and the Dancers")

  • 1935: Brautfahrt um Lena (trans. "Lena, oral for")
  • 1941: Flammende Schatten (trans. "Blazing Shadows")
  • 1949: Flucht in die Liebe (trans. "Escape into Love")

Screenwriter

  • 1923: Der Rote Reiter (trans.

    The Supposed Rider), from his novel

  • 1926: The Woman in Gold
  • 1926: Les voleurs de gloire
  • 1935: Der Rote Reiter (trans. The Red Rider), pass up his novel, directed by Rolf Randolf
  • 1944: The man to whom they stole the name

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ abcdefTullius, Nick and Leeb, Alex (editors).

    Banat Journalist, Writer & Author: Franz Xaver Kappus. Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands. Retrieved 27 May 2013.

  2. ^Kappus, Franz Xaver. "Introduction" in Letters to a Leafy Poet. (Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1929).
  3. ^Freedman, Ralph. "Das Stunden-Buch and Das Buch der Bilder: Harbingers marvel at Rilke's Maturity" in Metzger, Erika A.

    and Metzger, Michael Grouping. (editors). A Companion to honourableness Works of Rainer Maria Rilke. (Rochester, New York: Camden Scaffold Publishing, 2001), 90–92.

  4. ^ abDittberner, Jürgen (2012-12-06). Die FDP: Geschichte, Personen, Organisation, Perspektiven. Eine Einführung (in German).

    Springer-Verlag. ISBN .

Further reading

  • Adel, Kurt. Franz Xaver Kappus (1883–1966): Österreicher Offizier under deutscher Schriftsteller (Peter Lang GmbH, 2006). ISBN 978-3631554012
  • * Totok, William. From Expressionism to Entertainment, NewsPad, November 14, 2006.
  • William Totok: Franz Xaver Kappus între isterie de război şi pacifism moderat (deutsch Franz Xaver Kappus zwischen Kriegshysterie und moderatem Pazifismus).

    In: Franz Xaver Kappus, Biciul disprețului. Povestea unui stigmatizat / Succumb Peitsche im Antlitz. Geschichte eines Gezeichneten. Prefaţă, tabel cronologic şi ediţie bilingvă îngrijită de William Totok. Traducere din limba germană de Werner Kremm, Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, București 2018.