August Josef Lux

August Josef Lux was born in Vienna in 1871 as the son of a family from the Rhineland. Autodidactic studies in Vienna, Paris and London follow. From 1901 he worked as an art and novelist and as an architectural critic. 1904–1908 he is editor of the “Hohe-Warte-Illustrated Half-Month for the artistic, spiritual and economic interests of the urban culture-hohe-warte”. From 1907 he tries to establish a counterpart to the Munich German Werkbund in Austria. He is one of the co-founders of the Education School in Hellerau-Dresden. 1918–1920 he is a press spokesperson for the Salzburger Festspielhausbau. In 1921 the fifty-year-old consciously confesses to the Catholic faith. In 1926 he moved to Anif. He is co-founder of the Richard-von-Kralik-Gesellschaft and editor of the magazine “Kunst- und Kulturrat” published in Salzburg. From 1930 he is head of the “Lux Games of God” and is one of the co-founders of the “Education School” in Hellerau-Dresden.

After that, he is arrested for his religious commitment, his writings and his political commitment to the history of Austria (“Austria over everything”) and with the “Prominent Transport” on 1.4.1938 to KZ Dachau override. His writings are burned at the Residenzplatz in Salzburg.

It is only at the end of the war that the professionally forbidden writer can return to Salzburg and establish the Austrian Cultural Federation. In 1946 he was awarded the professor title. Like before the war, he devotes himself to promoting the religious lay-game movement and the artistic younger. Two years after his return, he dies and is buried in an honorary mine of the city of Salzburg on the municipal cemetery.