Müller-Guttenbrunn Herbert (Weinzierl Collection)
Born 5.6.1887 in Vienna, died 10.4.1945 in Klosterneuburg. Born as the first son of the German nationalist writer Adam Müller from Guttenbrunn (Banat) and his wife Adele (née Krusbersky), Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn attended grammar schools in Vienna and Freistadt and began studying law in Vienna after graduating from high school (1906), which he completed in 1911. After his voluntary year in the army, he initially worked at various courts before being called up for military service in 1914. In the same year, he had his greatest success as a playwright with the comedy The Women of Utopia. After the war, he propagated anarchist, pacifist and vegetarian ideas in his literary works and also tried to implement them with his reform agriculture. From 1927 to 1934, he was editor of the satirical-critical magazine Das Nebelhorn, which was modeled on Kraus' Fackel. Although his application for admission to the Reichsschrifttumskammer was rejected, Müller-Guttenbrunn was only subjected to limited repression during the Nazi era. Drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 and discharged two years later, he was shot dead by a Russian soldier in front of his house in Klosterneuburg in 1945 for illegal possession of weapons.
Correspondence and design collection on Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn compiled by Erika Weinzierl (1925-2014).
The collection includes copies of correspondence and drafts.
Letter to Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn from:
- Dr. Karl Wache [Vienna University Library, 27.9.1939, 1 sheet in copy]
- President of the Reichsschrifttumskammer [11.2.1941, 1 sheet in copy]
- Edition Kaiser Verlag Leipzig [22.2.1943, 1 sheet in copy]
- Tobis-Sascha Filmindustrie [15.11.1938, 3 sheets in copy / 9.11.1938, 1 sheet in copy]
Letter from Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn to:
- Kernmayr [29.11.1938, 4 sheets in copy]
Draft for a Nestroy film [13 sheets]
Application for the magazine Nebelhorn [around 1929, 1 sheet].
Signature: FNI-MÜLLER-GUTTENBRUNN (SLG. WEINZIERL)