Anton Wildgans
Encyclopedia
Anton Wildgans was an Austria
n poet
and playwright
.
His works, in which realism
, neo-romanticism
and expressionism
mingle, focus on the drama of daily life.
One of his teachers was the Austrian Jewish philosopher Wilhelm Jerusalem
. Wildgans was the mentor of writer Albert Drach.
The Wildganshof, a residential development in the 3rd District of Vienna, is named after him.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
.
His works, in which realism
Realism (arts)
Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects "in accordance with secular, empirical rules", as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation...
, neo-romanticism
Neo-romanticism
The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in music, painting and architecture. It has been used with reference to very late 19th century and early 20th century composers such as Gustav Mahler particularly by Carl Dahlhaus who uses it as synonymous with late Romanticism...
and expressionism
Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...
mingle, focus on the drama of daily life.
One of his teachers was the Austrian Jewish philosopher Wilhelm Jerusalem
Wilhelm Jerusalem
Wilhelm Jerusalem was an Austrian Jewish philosopher and pedagogue....
. Wildgans was the mentor of writer Albert Drach.
The Wildganshof, a residential development in the 3rd District of Vienna, is named after him.
Selected works
- Armut ("Poverty"), drama, 1914
- Liebe ("Love"), drama, 1916
- Dies Iræ, drama, 1918
- Sämtliche Werke ("Complete Works"), 1948. Historical-critical edition in 8 volumes edited by Lilly Wildgans with the collaboration of Otto Rommel. Vienna/Salzburg: Gemeinschaftsverlag Bellaria/Pustet, 1948