Adolf Schwayer

Born on August 12, 1858, in Ketzelsdorf in Lower Austria and later based in Linz, Adolf Schwayer worked in several fields before settling into a long career with the Austrian state railways. He spent time as a teacher and in a Viennese bank, then entered railway service in 1882, with posts in Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, and finally Linz, where he remained until his retirement in 1914.

He had been writing since the second half of the 1870s and began publishing publicly from 1887, starting with the verse work König Autharis und Theudelinde. His output was unusually broad: around 300 poems, 28 plays, verse narratives, prose works, and many shorter stories. Among his better-known works are the drama Bürgermeister Bojer, the school tragedy Die Sittennote, and the novel Das Laurentiuskind.

Schwayer seems to have earned his strongest reputation as a playwright. Die Sittennote, first performed in Linz in 1906, became his biggest success and was later staged in Vienna and other Austrian and German theaters. He died in Linz on May 16, 1922. No suitable verified portrait image was found from the sources checked during this search.