Reinhard Priessnitz

Reinhard Priessnitz's tomb in the Pötzleinsdorfer cemetery

Reinhard Priessnitz (born October 27, 1945 in Vienna ; † November 5, 1985 there ) was an Austrian poet and essayist .

Life

Reinhard Priessnitz worked, among other things, as the editorial secretary of the magazine “Literature and Criticism” (until 1968), from 1968 as an editor at the “New Forum”, where he resigned due to the so-called “actionism debate” in 1974, as a lecturer at the “edition neue texte” ( 1976–1983) and as an editor at Medusa-Verlag in Vienna from 1983–1985. From 1982 Priessnitz was a lecturer at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz. Since 1966 he has published poems, prose pieces and essays in literary magazines and anthologies, and from 1976 he wrote regularly for the features section of the Vienna daily newspaper “ Die Presse ”. Forty-four poems , however, remains his only book publication during his lifetime. The texts for this work were written by Priessnitz between 1964 and 1978. In addition to the volume of poems, his poetic work comprises only a few texts and around 40 other poems. Priessnitz was a founding member of the Graz Authors' Assembly (1973) and the Bielefeld Colloquium New Poetry (since 1978).

He died of cancer and was buried in Vienna in the Pötzleinsdorfer Friedhof in an honorary grave (group B, row 8, number 118).

The Reinhard Priessnitz Prize has been awarded annually to young authors by the Austrian Federal Chancellery since 1994.

Awards

• 1980 Award of the City of Vienna
• 1985 Austrian Prize for Literature

Works

• forty-four poems, ed. v. Heimrad Bäcker , G., Linz, Vienna 1978 (3rd edition Linz, Vienna 1986 = work edition reinhard priessnitz, edited by Ferdinand Schmatz , vol. 1; 4th improved edition, edited by Ferdinand Schmatz, Graz-Vienna 2004)
• five prose pieces, ed. ume Nachw. v. Ferdinand Schmatz, Pr., Linz, Vienna 1987 (= work edition, vol. 2)
• painting, plastic etc. essays, ed. v. Ferdinand Schmatz, Aufs., Ess., Linz, Vienna 1988 (= Werkausgabe, Vol. 3/1)
• literature, society etc. essays, ed. v. Ferdinand Schmatz, Aufs., Ess., Linz, Vienna 1990 (= Werkausgabe, Vol. 3/2)
• texts from the estate, ed. v. Ferdinand Schmatz u. Employee v. Thomas Eder , me Nachw. V. Jörg Drews , G., Übs., Pr., Hsp., Theaterst., Aufs., Ess., Interviews, Graz, Vienna 1994 (= Werkausgabe, Vol. 4).

literature

• Franz Josef Czernin : The writing hand: to Reinhard Prissnitz 'poem Heldin , special number, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85449-119-0 .
• Thomas Eder : Different things are / good. Reinhard Priessnitz and the repoetization of the avant-garde. - Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 978-3770538133
• Franz Kaltenbeck: Reinhard Priessnitz. The silent rebel. Droschl, Graz 2006, ISBN 9783854207047 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Priessnitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Reinhard Priessnitz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Reinhard Priessnitz in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
• Archive recordings with Reinhard Priessnitz in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (literature readings)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Literaturhaus Wien: Priessnitz Reinhard. Retrieved March 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Schuldt: On the death of Reinhard Priessnitz: Radikaler . In: The time . November 15, 1985, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 23, 2019]).
3. ^ Hermann Korte (ed.): Kindler compact. Austrian literature of the present . JBMetzler, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-05518-7 , pp. 131 .
4. ↑ Reinhard Priessnitz - Droschl literature publisher. Retrieved March 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Reinhard Priessnitz: forty-four poems. In: planetlyrik.de. July 28, 2010, accessed March 23, 2019 .