Hamik Anton / Folk art publisher
Anton Hamik, born 1887 in St. Pölten, died 1943 in Vienna, writer and actor. Trained as an actor in Vienna, followed by engagements in Olomouc, Brno, Klagenfurt and Vienna. After being wounded in the First World War, he was transferred to Graz, where he worked as an actor and director at the Städtische Bühnen. From 1925 to 1936, radio plays and radio adaptations of well-known dramas for the Graz radio station. A member of the NSDAP from 1933, he became one of the best-known playwrights of the Nazi era, initially also under the pseudonym Franz Streicher, with his rural farces. Hamik was considered the in-house author of the Exl-Bühne and wrote popular plays such as "Das Verlegenheitskind" and "Der verkaufte Großvater" (also made into a movie in 1942).
Hamik's plays were published by the Wiener Volkskunstverlag. In addition to plays and adaptations by Hamik and other authors as typescripts, often with handwritten notes, deletions and production notes, the collection also contains an extensive collection of stage manuscripts published as typescripts by the Wiener Volkskunstverlag, its successor, the Österreichischer Bühnenverlag Kaiser, and occasionally by other publishers (such as the Alpenländische Volkskunstspiele Graz).
Scope: 7 archive boxes, 2 cartons
Contents: Works, collections
Plays and stage adaptations by Anton Hamik as typescript
6 albums with newspaper cuttings and documents relating to Hamik's theater career
Collection of plays and stage adaptations by other authors
Collection of stage manuscripts from Volkskulturverlag and other publishers
Call number: FNI-HAMIK
Acquisition: Purchase 2004