Alois Hergouth

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Alois Hergouth (born May 31, 1925 in Graz , † January 17, 2002 there ) was an Austrian writer , poet and translator.

Life

Alois Hergouth was born on May 31, 1925 as the eleventh child of a bricklayer and a housewife in Graz. He graduated from high school in 1943 and was a soldier in Dresden during World War II . After a long stay in a labor camp and a prisoner of war, he returned to his hometown Graz in autumn 1945.

In 1946 he published poems in the volume Confession to Austria in Grazer daily newspapers and in Otto Basils literary magazine Der Plan . Seven years later his first volume of poetry, Neon und Psyche (1953), was published. He had interrupted his studies in ethnology, general and comparative linguistics and the history of religion from 1947 to 1953. In the following years he worked as assistant to Viktor Geramb and was mainly involved in the founding of the Grazer Forum Stadtpark and the literary magazine manuskripte .

In 1959 he found a second home in Sladka gora , Slovenia . Hergouth lived there in a secluded mud hut in the vineyards. This period is described and processed in the volume of poetry Sladka gora , written in 1965 .

Between 1960 and 1963, after completing his doctorate, he worked as an assistant to Hanns Koren at the Institute for Folklore at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . The poet was a member of the PEN , the IG authors and the Austrian Writers' Association . For health reasons, Alois Hergouth retired in 1978 and devoted himself to his writing activities in the following years. In addition to various volumes of poetry, the prose volume Der Mond im Apfelgarten was published. In 1999 he received the academic title of professor . Hergouth died on January 17th, 2002 at the age of 77.

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  • Neon and psyche. Poems. Graz, Vienna, Munich: Stiasny, 1953
  • Black tribute. Poems. Graz: Leykam, 1958
  • Pictures from a trip: Lake Neusiedl, August 1959. Private print. Graz, 1959
  • Marginalia. 7 poems to 7 etchings by Mario Decleva. Graz: Forum Stadtpark, 1965
  • Sladka gora. The sweet mountain. Poems. Graphics by Heinrich Pölzl. Graz: Leykam 1965
  • Twelve poems from a long winter. Graz: Private print by the Graz group of works, 1966
  • Ships, islands, cicadas. Private printing. Graz: Grazer Druckerei, 1969–1971
  • Human, inhuman, human. 93 everyday, festive & utility events. Ed .: Walter Laggner. Private printing. Graz: Grazer Druckerei, 1973
  • Stations in the wind. Poems 1953-1973. Graz, Vienna, Cologne: Styria , 1973
  • Escape to Odysseus. Poems. Etching: Gregor Traversa. Graz, Vienna, Cologne: Styria, 1975
  • Listed in the south. New poems. Private printing. Graz: Grazer Druckerei, 1976
  • Addendum to Sladka Gora. Private printing. Graz: Grazer Druckerei, 1977
  • Notes from Rome. Private printing. (With Jean-Charles Lombard).
  • The moon in the apple orchard. Out of my life. Collection. Illustrations: Gerald Brettschuh. Graz, Vienna, Cologne: Styria, 1980
  • Cyprus. End of January 1983. Private print. Graz: Grazer Druckerei, 1983.
  • New staging. Poems from the 50s. Selection from the lost volumes “Neon und Psyche”, “Schwarzer Tribut”. Illustrations: Gerald Brettschuh. Ed .: Manfred Kramer. Graz: Academic Printing and Publishing Company , 1985
  • Orbiting the night. Poems. Illustrations: Hannes Schwarz. Graz, Vienna, Cologne: Styria, 1985
  • Aloys & Aloise. Exhumed fragments of the gallows from the estate of Christian Ringelbusch and Wilhelm Morgenatz. Illustrations: Edwin Eder. Graz, Vienna, Cologne: Styria, 1987
  • Frontier workers. Poems. German / Slovenian, Slovenian / German. Private printing. Graz: Grazer Druckerei, 1988.
  • Year after year. Illustrations: Gerald Brettschuh. Graz: Academic Printing and Publishing Company, 1991

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SURNAME Hergouth, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2002
Place of death Graz