Sapper Theodor (Wittmann-Kirschbaum Collection)
Born on 16.9.1905 in Feldbach (Styria), died on 1.10.1982 in Vienna. Grandson of the Bavarian author of books for young people Agnes Sapper, son of the Protestant theologian and natural philosopher Karl Moritz Sapper, academic grammar school in Graz, studied history in Graz and Munich, doctorate in Graz in 1929 with a thesis on Feuerbach and Marx, journalist, from 1931 extensive travels in Spain and North Africa (hiking), in the 1930s acquaintance with Elias Canetti and Hermann Broch, among others. Elias Canetti and Hermann Broch, after 1938 banned from writing, 1942 labor service in the Viennese margarine factory Blaimschein, 1942-1943 research assistant in Graz, 1943-1945 archivist in Murnau, drafted into the "Volkssturm", converted to Catholicism and moved to Taufkirchen a. d. Pram (Upper Austria), since 1945 translator of French authors in Vienna, 1948-1950 editor of the weekly newspaper "Offenes Wort", since 1960 lecturer in literary history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, as a writer strongly influenced by late Expressionism.
Publications include: Kornfeld (1947, NA 1980), Alle Trauben alle Lilien (1967), (ed.) Alle Glocken dieser Erde (1974), Kettenreaktion Kontra (2006).
The extensive correspondence and the original manuscripts were donated to the Institute in 1993 by the publishing director and writer Hertha Wittmann-Kirschbaum, who was a friend of Sapper.
Signature: FNI-SAPPER (SLG. WITTMANN-KIRSCHBAUM)