Anton Wildgans

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Wildgans, Anton

Born Apr. 17, 1881, in Vienna; died May 3, 1932, in Mödling, near Vienna. Austrian poet and playwright. Lawyer by education.

For a number of years Wildgans was director of the Vienna Burgtheater. His lyric poetry is devoted to the theme of love (the collections From the Road, 1903; And Have Not Charity, 1911; and Sonnets, 1913). Social enthusiasm is characteristic of the collections Autumn—Spring (1909), Austrian Poems (1914), Viennese Poems (1926), and others, as well as the plays Poverty (1914), Love (1916), and Dies irae (1918). Wildgans is the author of the antimilitaristic satirical epos Kirbisch (1927).

WORKS

Sämtliche Werke, vols. 1-7. Vienna [1948-58].
Ein Leben in Briefen, vols. 1-3. Published by L. Wildgans. Vienna, 1947.

>REFERENCES

Wildgans, L. Anton Wildgans und das Burgtheater. Vienna, 1955.
Wildgans, L. Der gemeinsame Weg: Mein Leben mit Anton Wild-gans. Salzburg-Stuttgart, 1960.

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Franz Werfel's relationship with Catholicism, and the performances in Salzburg of Hofmannsthal's Jedermann and more importantly Das Salzburger grosse Welttheater, lead us on (with passing references to productions of Beer-Hofmann' Jaakobs Traum and Mell's Das Nachfolge-Christi-Spiel) to 'Anton Wildgans and the ambiguous dimensions of a Catholic Leitkultur'.

The Burgtheater and Austrian Identity: Theatre and Cultural Politics in Vienna 1918-38