Rudolf Greinz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rudolf Greinz

Austrian writer

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1866

Place of Birth: Pradl, Tyrol, Austria

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1942

Profession: writer, poet, traveller

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Rudolf Greinz

  • Rudolf Greinz (August 16, 1866 - August 16, 1942) was an Austrian writer.
  • He was born as the eldest of five children of Anton Greinz and his wife Maria (nee Kapferer).
  • His younger brothers Hugo (1873–1946) and Hermann (1879–1938) were also writers.
  • In 1879 the family moved to Salzburg.
  • his father had been transferred there.In 1883 Rudolf Greinz laid on the k.k.
  • State Gymnasium in Salzburg from the Matura.
  • He then studied German language and literature, Classical Philology and art history at the Universities of Graz and Innsbruck.
  • Due to illness, Greinz had to give up his intended scientific career.
  • Thereupon decided for the writing profession.
  • As a freelance writer he settled in Merano.
  • In Meran, Rudolf Greinz met Zoe Basevi, a native of a significant Jewish-British family, the daughter of a retired naval officer living there, a grandniece of the English statesman Benjamin Disraeli.
  • They married in 1899.
  • In 1905 he moved with his family to Innsbruck.
  • There he worked on the magazine Der Föhn, together with Richard Wilhelm Polifka, Rudolf Brix and Franz Kranewitter.
  • His contributions, however, increasingly met with criticism and rejection of his fellow writers, which is why he relocated to Munich in 1911.
  • There he worked under the pseudonym "Tuifelemaler Kassian Kluibenschädel“ at the magazine Jugend.In 1934 his wife Zoe died.
  • Two years later, Rudolf Greinz moved to Ansitz Rosenegg in Aldrans, a village above Innsbruck.
  • He acquired the "Villa Rosenegg" in 1926, but initially used it only as a summer resort.
  • Numerous travels took him to poetry readings throughout the German-speaking world.
  • In 1939 Greinz submitted his application for admission to the Reichsschrifttumskammer, which was retroactively granted on July 1, 1938.Rudolf Greinz died on his 76th birthday.
  • His tomb is located in the cemetery in Ampass.

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