BRIEFE AN EINE DAME ODER KARL WEISS-SCHRATTENTHAL IN DER PRESSBURGER ZEITUNG

• Authors: Zolcerová Ivana

Title variants

EN

Letters to a Lady or Karl Weiss-Schrattenthal in the Pressburger Zeitung

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the publishing activity of Karl Weiss-Schrattenthal (1846 – 1938) and the perception of his personality in the Bratislava German newspaper Pressburger Zeitung. He spent more than half of his life in Pressburg, later Bratislava (1886 – 1938), where he worked as a teacher at a higher real school. German language literature of his times was his profession and hobby, he wrote poems, novellas, and short stories. He also devoted himself to literary criticism and especially to literature written by women. He regarded criticism as a tool of possible improvement for the author. Apart from reviews, he promoted authors in articles in the press and also by publishing collections of their poems. The paper takes a closer look at two series of feuilletons published under similar titles before and after the First World War (Literárne listy pre jednu prešporskú dámu [Literary Letters to a Lady of Pressburg], 1886, Listy pre tunajšiu dámu [Letters to a Local Lady], 1919 – 1924). On the basis of these, the author examines what content K. Weiss-Schrattenthal addressed to his fellow citizens, as well as how his texts changed after the establishment of the 1st Czechoslovak Republic. The paper also analyses the articles in the Pressburger Zeitung which concerned his personality and shaped the image of him.

Keywords

EN

KARL WEISS-SCHRATTENTHAL; FEUILLETON; BRATISLAVA; PRESSBURGER ZEITUNG; CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 408 – 422

Contributors

author

Zolcerová Ivana

• Univerzita Komenského, Filozofická fakulta, Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3681-5767

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2024.71.4.6