Franz Kain (10 January 1922 – 27 October 1997) was an Austrian writer and politician.[1]
He was born in Bad Goisern and was educated locally. He apprenticed as a carpenter but quit and worked as a woodcutter. At the age of 14, he was arrested for distributing leaflets for the communist youth organization and imprisoned for three weeks. Following the Anschluss, he was arrested again in 1941 and was later pressed into service in the German 999th Light Afrika Division. From April 1942 to March 1946, he was held in custody by the Americans as a prisoner of war.[2]
When he returned to Austria, Kain began working as a journalist for the newspaper Die Neue Zeit in Linz. From 1953 to 1956, he was a correspondent for the newspaper Volksstimme in Berlin.[2]
He married Margit Gröblinger in 1961.[3] The couple's daughter Eugenie also became a writer.[4]
In 1954, his story "Die Lawine" appeared in the anthology Der Kreis hat einen Anfang.[5] Kain's essays have appeared in various anthologies and journals. His work has been translated into Czech, Russian and Ukrainian.[2]
He joined the Communist Party of Austria (KPO) in 1936. From 1977 to 1986, he served on the council for the (KPO) in Linz.[2]
Kain received the Decoration for Services to the Liberation of Austria, the Silver Medal from the Republic of Austria and the Order of Lenin from the Soviet Union. For his literary works, he was awarded the Preis des Kulturministers of the German Democratic Republic, the Theodor Körner Prize and the Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich.[5]
Kain died in Linz at the age of 75.[1]
^ ab"Franz Kain (1922-1997)" (in German). KPÖ Oberösterreich.
^ abcd"Franz Kain". Literatur Netz (in German).
^"Margit Kain ist 75" (in German). KPÖ Oberösterreich. December 31, 2012.
^"Autorin Eugenie Kain 49-jährig gestorben". derStandard (in German). January 8, 2010.
^ ab"Franz Kain" (in German). Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz.
FranzKain (10 January 1922 – 27 October 1997) was an Austrian writer and politician. He was born in Bad Goisern and was educated locally. He apprenticed...
Eugenie Kain (1 April 1960 – 8 January 2010) was an Austrian writer. The daughter of Franz and Margit Kain, she was born in Linz. She studied art history...
series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain (Das Vermächtniß Kains). Venus in Furs was part of Love (Die Liebe), the first volume of the series...
Georg Franz Danzer (7 October 1946, in Vienna – 21 June 2007, in Asperhofen, Lower Austria) was an Austrian singer-songwriter. Although he is credited...
1946), 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature Eugenie Kain (1960–2010), writer, born in Linz, wrote in German Franz Kafka (1883–1924), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary...
Baumgartner, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Katja Schneider, p. 207 Thomas Kain, Mona Meister, Franz-Joachim Verspohl, Jena 1999, p. 90 Jardi, p. 12 Göttler: Der Blaue...
Valentine (Shadow Hearts: Covenant) Dr. Jonathan Reid (Vampyr) K Kain (Legacy of Kain) Kanato Sakamaki (Diabolik Lovers) Katrina (Quest for Glory: Shadows...
Omahyra Mota, Via Saleaumua, Richard Yee, Clayton Dean Watmough, Shauna Kain, Kea Wong, Adrian Hough, Lloyd Adams, Bryce Hodgson J U N E 2 The Break-Up...
that, in fact, two people have seemingly been murdered. The first is Simon Kain, a prominent leader of the town who had previously been assumed to be immortal;...
(screenplay); Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Cindy Herron, Vincent Laresca, Samuel L. Jackson, George O. Gore II, Grace...
Mörder. Aufzeichnungen über die Banalität des Bösen Ebbo Demant 1999 Poland ... gdzie jest mój starszy syn Kain Agnieszka Arnold Considers Jedwabne pogrom...
79 95 1874 I Vicar Apostolic of Brownsville, III Mobile 136 John Joseph Kain 66 109 110 1875 II Wheeling, III St. Louis 137 Rupert Seidenbusch 112 123...
Life of Addie LaRue (2020) Animamundi: Dark Alchemist Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain Faust (published as "Seven Games of the Soul" in North America) GrimGrimoire...
a running start that it [...] doesn't give events time to breathe." Erik Kain of Forbes noted a "very big piece" missing in the absence of Harrison Wells...
ni benutsa? Natürlich, dat srijwen is går ni sou einfach, weegen wij häwa kain gramatik. Wekmål wet man ni wek wöir srijwa schal. Åwer dat wichtigst is...
Swoboda, ed., Gesammelte Aufsätze (Augsburg, 1929), xxxv-xxxix; and E.M. Kain and D. Britt, tr., The Group Portraiture of Holland (Los Angeles, 1989),...
durch neue zu ersetzen sind (1997) Mir auf der Spur (On My Own Traces, 1997) Kain. Das letzte Manuskript (posthumous novel, 2001) Kopfjäger von Borneo, 1936...
Global Information