!!!Billinger, Richard

b. St. Marienkirchen (Upper Austria), July 20, 1890, 
d. Linz (Upper Austria), June 7, 1965, poet, lived in Munich and 
Berlin. The depiction of the changing rural world in his native 
country is characteristic of his work; confronts a mystical and 
demonic view of the world with Christian ideas.

!Works
poetry: Ueber die Aecker, 1923; Sichel am Himmel, 1931; Die 
Nachtwache, 1935; Holder Morgen, 1942. - Dramas: Knecht, 1924; Das 
Perchtenspiel, 1928; Rauhnacht, 1931; Rosse, 1931; Die Hexe von 
Passau, 1935; Melusine, 1941; Das Augsburger Jahrtausendspiel, 1955; 
Die Bauernpassion, 1960. - Novels, prose: Das Schutzengelhaus, 1934; 
Das verschenkte Leben, 1937; Palast der Jugend, 1951 (autobiography). 
- Editions: Gesammelte Werke, 12 vols., 1955-1960; Gesammelte Werke, 7 
vols., 1972-1983.

!Literature
E. Rabenstein, Dichtung zw. Tradition und Moderne, 1988.



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