Adolf Opel

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Adolf Opel

Adolf Opel (born June 12, 1935 in Vienna ; † July 15, 2018 there ) was an Austrian writer , filmmaker and editor .

Life

Between 1953 and 1959, Adolf Opel studied psychology , literature and theater studies as well as film at the University of Vienna and the State University of Iowa (Iowa City, USA) . He studied with Viktor E. Frankl , Heinz Kindermann , Margret Dietrich and Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger , among others . From 1986 he held the professional title of professor .

In 1956, Adolf Opel started his journalistic work at Neues Österreich (Vienna). This was followed by many years of work as a freelance cultural journalist, critic and foreign correspondent for the national and international press, including the Stuttgarter Zeitung , Saarbrücker Zeitung , Morgenbladet ( Oslo ), Nova Kultura ( Warsaw ) and others. He created radio programs and features for ORF . He wrote plays, scripts, and musicals; He was also editor of the writings of Adolf Loos , Lina Loos and the autobiographical memoirs of Elsie Altmann-Loos and Claire Loos. He was jointly responsible for the design of the Adolf Loos exhibition in the Centro de Arte y Communicación, Buenos Aires 1981, and the exhibition Adolf Loos - Interieurs und Utopie (Vienna 1986). In 2016 he re- edited Ketten in den Meer by Bohuslav Kokoschka , Oskar Kokoschka's younger brother , and also wrote the epilogue for it.

He has spent several years studying in the USA, Mexico , Brazil , Argentina and Paraguay , as well as in many European countries as well as in the Far and Middle East. In 1959 he traveled through Austria with Thornton Wilder . In the mid-1960s, Opel was Ingeborg Bachmann's partner in life , which is relevant for her fragment of the novel The Franza Case and the poem Bohemia is by the Sea . He has traveled with her to Prague , Egypt and Sudan .

Adolf Opel was a member of the Austrian PEN Club , the associations of dramatic writers and film directors in Austria.

Works

Plays:

  • Thirst Before the Fight , Premiere 1955
  • Wedding in Chicago , premiere 1957
  • On the Mend , WP 1957
  • The happy encounters , premiere 1961
  • Wilhelm Voigt - Der Hauptmann von Köpenick , musical, premiered in 1977
  • Roaring Twenties / Die Goldenen Zwanziger , musical, WP 1989

Bibliography:

  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Der Judenraphael (Ed.), Vienna 1989 - Amerik. Translated by Michael T. O'Pecko: A light for others and other Jewish tales from Galicia , Riverside 1994
  • Wanda and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Scenes from a marriage. A controversial biography , Vienna 1996
  • "Landscape for which eyes are made". With Ingeborg Bachmann in Egypt , Vienna 1996
  • "Where the laughter came back to me ...". Traveling with Ingeborg Bachmann , Munich 2001

Edited writings by Adolf Loos (excerpt):

  • Spoke into the void. Collected writings 1897-1900 , Vienna 1981, 1987, 1997
  • Nevertheless. Collected writings 1900-1930 , Vienna 1982, 1988, 1997
  • The Potemkin City. Lost writings 1897-1933 , Vienna 1983, 1997
  • About architecture. Selected writings - the original texts , Vienna 1995
  • Ornament and crime. Selected writings - the original texts , Vienna 2000

Edited writings by Elsie Altmann-Loos and Claire Loos (excerpt):

  • Elsie Altmann-Loos: My life with Adolf Loos , Vienna 1984, 2013
  • Claire Loos: Adolf Loos private , Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1985
  • Elsie Altmann-Loos, Lina Loos, Claire Loos: Adolf Loos - der Mensch , Vienna 2002

Edited writings by Else Feldmann (excerpt):

  • Else Feldmann: The body of the mother , Vienna 1993
  • Else Feldmann: Dandelions. A childhood , Vienna 1993
  • Else Feldmann: Martha and Antonia , Vienna 1997
  • Else Feldmann: Fleeting luck. Social reports from the interwar period , Vienna 2018

Published writings by Lina Loos :

  • Lina Loos: The Untitled Book , Vienna 1986, Frankfurt / Berlin 1989, Vienna 1996 and 2013
  • Lina Loos: How to become what you are , Vienna 1994
  • You silver lady you. Letters from and to Lina Loos , Vienna 2016

Films (direction and script, excerpt):

  • Der Weibsteufel , based on Karl Schönherr, 1966 (only screenplay)
  • Be nice to Mr. Sloane , based on Joe Orton, 1968 (script only)
  • Death fugue , short film based on Paul Celan , 1977/78
  • Resurrection of Words , on Franz Theodor Csokor , 1978
  • Arielse , about Elsie Altmann-Loos, 1979 / '80
  • Only the imagination remains forever young , about Elisabeth Bergner , 1981 / '82
  • The power of the mind over the material , on Michel Blümelhuber , 1983 (only direction)
  • Living word - lasting work (series)
  • The question of meaning , about Viktor E. Frankl , 1990
  • Are you a critic? , on Hans Weigel , 1991
  • Against measurable time , on Erich Wolfgang Skwara , 1993
  • Looking for yesterday , via HC Artmann , 1993

Prizes and awards

  • Grand Prix, 7th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, 1978
  • 1st prize, Rassegna Internazionale del Film didattico, Rome 1979
  • Main prize, Huesca International Film Festival 1979
  • Film Prize of the Vienna Art Fund 1979
  • Theodor Körner Prize 1981, 1987 and 1993
  • Best film, film and video competition Linz, 1994 and 1995

In addition, numerous publications in anthologies, u. a. Austrian poetry after 1945 (1960), in magazines and newspapers, articles for actors. Translation and editing of plays, prose texts and poetry from Portuguese, Spanish, English and French, etc. a. by Griselda Gambaro, José Lopez Rubio and João Bethencourt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Searching for the dead | Online Services | Cemeteries | Vienna cemeteries . In: www.friedhoefewien.at . ( friedhoefewien.at [accessed on August 7, 2018]).
  2. ^ Adolf Opel. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 720.
  3. ^ Edition Atelier: The untitled book
  4. ↑ Heike Hauf: Foam bath for Ingeborg Bachmann : Adolf Opel reports on the trips together with the poet.
personal data
SURNAME Opel, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, filmmaker and editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2018
Place of death Vienna