Cellar Paul Anton
Born on 11.1.1907 in Radkersburg (Styria), died on 20.10.1976 in Hart bei Graz. Writer; came from a family of actors. Apprenticeship as a photographer, attended drama school and conservatory in 1922/23; worked as a freelance writer from 1931; published in magazines with a German nationalist background; friendships with Max Mell, Joseph Friedrich Perkonig and Josef Weinheber, member of the NSDAP in 1933 and the "Bund deutscher Schriftsteller Österreichs" in 1936; 1938 member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer, from April 1939-1945 its director for Styria; after 1945 works on the "List of banned authors and books"; joined the ÖVP, 1948 lifting of the writing ban, active as a freelance writer; 1961 appointed Professor h.c.; responsible for the section on literature from 1938 to 1945 at the Styrian Provincial Exhibition in 1976.
Awards include: Peter Rosegger Prize (1955), Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Graz (1975).
Publications include: Erleben (self-published, 1924), Gesang vor den Toren der Welt (1931), Die freiherrlichen Hosen (1939), Das Sausaler Jahr. Ein Landschaftsbuch (1941), Lebensreise (1943), Tiergeschichten (1948), Jahre, die gleich Wolken wandern (1948), Gefährliche Grenze (1956), Gast der Erde (1957), Hans Hauke (1969) and Zum Sehen geboren. Memories and Encounters (1972).
Stock
Scope: 1 folder
Contents:
Correspondence, vital records, collections.
4 letters and 4 postcards from PAK to the Schrattenholzer family
3 photos of PAK
Various newspaper clippings
Degree of processing: The fonds are roughly indexed.
Call number: FNI-KELLER, PAUL ANTON
Current/core period: 1907-1976