Muzil Robert Biography

Robert Musil; November 6, Clagenfurt - April 15, Geneva - Austrian writer, playwright and essayist. The author of the cycles of the stories “Forms”, “Three Women”, the prosaic collection “Disforted Heritage”, the drama “Dreamers” and the comic play “Vincenz and a friend of significant husbands”, two novels “Soul Troubles of the Pupil of Terles” and “Man without the properties” of the remaining unfinished, as well as numerous essays, speeches, theater and literary and critical articles.

The writer’s museum is located in the city of Klagenfurt, where he was born and lived the first year of his life. He died on April 15 in Geneva. The legacy of Muzil is contained in the department of manuscripts of the Austrian National Library. Robert Muzil was the only son in the family of engineer Alfred Muzil from the old Austrian noble family and his wife Ermine Bergauer.

At the end of the Academy in the year, he decides to abandon the officer’s career and begins to visit the Brno Technical University, where his father worked. In the year, he passed an exam for the title of engineer. Disappointed in the profession of an engineer, in the year he begins to study philosophy and psychology in Berlin, which is friendly with future writers Alfred Kerr and Franz whore.

In the year, he invented the colored circle of Musily - a device of two -layered colored circles to create a continuous gamut of colors. Two years later, in the year, he defended his dissertation to receive the title of a doctor under the guidance of the famous psychologist Karl Stumpf, the title of the dissertation: a contribution to the assessment of the teachings of Ernst Mach.

He rejected the possibility of habilitation of an analogue of a doctoral dissertation in Russia, as he decided to choose the profession of a writer. In the year, Musil moved to Vienna and became a librarian at Vienna Technical University. Before the outbreak of World War I, he also worked as a journalist in various newspapers. In the First World War, Muzil as an officer of the reserve took part and finished it with the rank of landsturmhauptmann and with many insignia.

It was placed in South Tyrol, then on the Italian-Serbian front. This experience later formed the basis of his famous story “Die Amsel”. In the years, the Soldaten-Zeitung newspaper was published by the soldier's newspaper. In the year, the titles were canceled, and the surname again became Musil. Since the year, Muzil has been leading the life of an independent writer.

At the beginning of the year, he meets in Berlin with his future publisher Ernst Rovolt. Since the year, he was also published as a theater critic. The director changed the text of the work so much that Musil himself was distanced from the production. His second dramatic work, comedy Vincens and a girlfriend of significant husbands in him. In the year, he received the Kleist Award, in - the art prize of the city of Vienna, and in - the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize.

Since the year, Robert Muzil lived in Berlin again. At this time, Kurt Glazer founded the Musiel society there, which was dissolved in the year after the writer returned to Vienna in the year, but was formed again in Vienna. In Vienna, Muzil lived in the third district at Rasumofskygasse 20, and today there is his museum-apartment.

In the year at the age of 56, Musil suffered a stroke, from which he did not fully recover. In the year, together with his wife, he emigrated to Zurich, in the same year his books were banned in Germany annexing Austria. For economic reasons, they then moved to Geneva and lived there in extremely shy circumstances. The only source of their existence was the allowance of the Swiss Fund for Assistance to the German Scientist.

His ashes were scattered in the suburbs of Geneva. Martha Muzil died in Rome in the house of her son from her first marriage in the year. Robert Muzil is known primarily as the author of an unfinished novel by a person without the properties of him. Der Mann ohne eigenschaften. Immediately after the appearance in the early xs, the novel did not attract much attention, but the new edition, compiled in the x years, Adolf Frieze him.

In the context of the German -speaking literature of the 20th century, Musily is often put on a par with Herman Broch, Thomas Mann, Elias Kanetti and notes that his style is simultaneously individual and epohy.