50th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1986 - 4 Shilling

It is one of the great omissions in the cultural events of the First and the Second Republic to have almost completely forgotten the work of the novelist and essayist Otto Stoessl. The contemporary of Karl Kraus, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke and representatives of the "Junge Wien" left behind a rich narrative work and also distinguished themselves as literary theorists and critics. Thus Hans Weigel wrote about Otto Stoessl: "Of all the forgotten in our literature he seems to me, if the superlative is permitted, the most forgotten." He was ignored in the resurrection of Austria and would have been one of those rare righteous for whose sake the resurrection would be legitimated. " Otto Stoessl was born on May 2, 1875, the son of a poor doctor. Even before completing his studies (he earned his doctorate in law in January 1900), he entered the service of the Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn in 1899, which offered him a secure, albeit unpopular, basis of existence. In addition, he devoted himself entirely to his literary work. Over the next few decades, countless short stories, short stories, novels and other literary masterpieces were written. The novel "The House of Erath" (1920) is regarded by critics and literary history as his main work. He died on 15 September 1936 and was buried at the cemetery Ober-St.-Veit.