!!!Wenter, Josef Gottlieb

b. Meran/Merano (South Tirol), Aug. 11, 1880, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), July 5, 1947, writer. Used mainly historical 
subjects in his dramas, especially the lives of German rulers, to some 
of whom he attributed larger-than-life mythical qualities ("Der 
sechste Heinrich", 1921); as a sympathiser of National Socialism, he 
advocated the rule of the "Fuehrer" in his novel "Spiel um den Staat" 
(1933). After 1945 W. was rehabilitated and became known as the author 
of touching and sensitive animal tales.

!Works
Dramas: Heinrich IV., 1925; Michael Geismair, 1941; 
Kaiserin Maria Theresia, 1944; Gesetz im Wandel, 1947. - Novels and 
narratives: Salier und Staufer, 1936; Barbarossa in Italien, 1939. - 
Animal tales: Monsieur, der Kuckuck, der Sonderbare, 1930; Laikan, 
1931; Mannsraeuschlin, 1933.

!Literature
M. Voelkl, J. W. Weg zum Dramatiker, doctoral thesis, 
Innsbruck 1973; F. Aspetsberger, Literarisches Leben im 
Austrofaschismus, 1980.



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