Keller Paul Anton (Wittmann-Kirschbaum Collection)
Born on 11.1.1907 in Radkersburg (Styria), died on 20.10.1976 in Hart bei Graz. Writer; came from a family of actors; trained 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; 1933 member of the NSDAP and in 1936 of the "Bund deutscher Schriftsteller Österreichs"; 1938 member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer, from April 1939-1945 its head 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.
Collection on Paul Anton Keller compiled by Hertha Wittmann-Kirschbaum (*1921).
Inventory:
Yellow folder with the hs. Original letters from Paul Anton Keller, Graz to Hertha Wittmann Kirschbaum, Munich 1964-1976
Correspondence between Paul Anton Keller and Hertha Kirschbaum 1964-1976:
45 letters, 29 cards, 3 letters in copy, 3 cards in copy
1 party note (Paul Anton Keller)
1 card from Franz Nabl, 19.10.1962
Paul Anton Keller: Affection. Poems [1 booklet]
2 note sheets
Obituaries and reviews [5 sheets of copies, 1 sheet with glued-on newspaper cuttings, 1 sheet of newspaper cuttings, 1 leaflet, 1 flyer]. Newspaper clipping, 1 flyer, 1 booklet: Grazer Stadtanzeiger. 11/1972]
Letter from Paul Anton Keller to A. Fischer [1 sheet type. hs. erg.: Hart-St. Peter bei Graz, 10.01.1943 + envelope]
Book copies of Keller's poems [17 sheets of copies]
Paper folder from Keller's Flamhof Castle (1937), enriched with glued-in copies of poems and photographs by Keller, compiled by Hertha Wittmann Kirschbaum
Signature: FNI-KELLER, PAUL ANTON (SLG. WITTMANN-KIRSCHBAUM)