Lux, Josef August#
Lux, Josef August, b. Vienna, April 8, 1871, d. Anif near Salzburg, March 23, 1947, author. Author of biographical novels and mystery plays of Catholic and strongly pro-Austrian tendencies. From 1930 onwards head of the group "L.-Spielleute Gottes", co-founder of the "Bildungsschule" in Hellerau-Dresden, Germany, and the Kralik Society (Kralik-Gesellschaft) in Vienna; promoted the religious amateur actors' movement. 1939 incarcerated in the concentration camp Dachau.
Publications#
A Fink vom Weanawald. Gedichte in der unterennsischen Mundart, 1900; Wr. Sonette, 1902; Grillparzers Liebesroman, 1912; F. Schuberts Lebenslied, 1915; Das grosse Bauernsterben, 1917; Wanderung zu Gott, 1926 (autobiography); Beethovens unsterbliche Geliebte, 1926; F. Liszt, 1929; Der Spielmann Gottes, 1930; Land tragischen Glaubens, 1947. - Dramas.Literature#
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