Robert Hohlbaum

Robert Hohlbaum (28 August 1886 – 4 February 1955) was an Austrian-German librarian, writer, and playwright. He was born as a son of an industrialist Alois Hohlbaum in what is now Krnov in the Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and known by its German name, Jägerndorf.

Hohlbaum studied at Graz and Vienna and received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. He gained employment as a scientific librarian, but maintained an avocation as a writer, writing principally for the journal Muskete, along with Mirko Jelusich and Rudolf Hans Bartsch. Hohlbaum was a nationalist and became an officer in the Austrian army during World War I. After the war was over he became involved with the Austrian wing of the right-wing German People's Party.

In 1933 Hohlbaum moved to Germany, where he became a citizen in 1937. He was a friend of Josef Weinheber. He thrived during the Third Reich, becoming first the director of the municipal library at Duisburg and later, in 1942, that of the state library at Weimar (now the Duchess Anna Amalia Library).

In disgrace after the war, Hohlbaum was able after a number of attempts to return to Austria in 1951. He settled first in Vienna, and later in Graz, where he died in 1955. His most significant work after the war ended was a book on Anton Bruckner, Tedeum.

Works Der ewige Lenzkampf, 1913 Deutsche Gedichte. A Cycle, 1916 Unsterbliche. Novellas, 1919 Die Amouren des Magister Döderlein, 1920 Grenzland, 1921 Franz Karl Ginzkey. His Life and Work, 1921 Fallbeil und Reifrock. New Noverllas, 1921 Zukunft. Novel, 1922 Himmlisches Orchester, 1923 Die deutsche Passion, 1924 Der wilde Christian. Novel, 1925 Die Pfingsten von Weimar, 1926 Die Raben des Kyffhäuser. The Novel of the Burschenschaft und their Age, 1927 Das Paradies und die Schlange. A Novel from South Tyrol, 1928 Winterbrautnacht. Novellas, 1929 Das klingende Gift, 1930 Deutsches Leid in Österreich, 1930 Die Stunde der Sterne. A Bruckner Novella, 1930 König Volk, 1931 Der Mann aus dem Chaos. A Napoleon Novel, 1933 Die Flucht in den Krieg, 1935 Der Held von Kolberg, 1935 Zweikampf um Deutschland. Novel, 1936 Fröhlicher Vormärz. Two Novellas, 1936 Grillparzer, 1938 Die stumme Schlacht. Novel, 1939 Der Kurfürst, 1940 Heroische Rheinreise, Novelle, 1941 Die Königsparade, 1942 Balladen vom Geist, 1943 Das letzte Gefecht, 1943 Symphonie in drei Sätzen. Novellas, 1943 Tedeum, 1950 Jesus-Legende, 1951 Der Heiratsvermittler, 1953 Der Zauberstab. Novel of Viennese Musical Life, 1954 Des reifsten Weines später Segen, 1967