Bernd Schmidt (writer)

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Bernd Schmidt (born May 13, 1947 in Graz , Styria ; † September 23, 2016 there ) was an Austrian writer , composer , illustrator and cultural journalist .

He was the author of children's books and the author and illustrator of numerous satirical volumes. He wrote cabaret programs and program contributions, chanson texts, screenplays as well as plays and arrangements.

Life

Bernd Schmidt was born in Graz and, after graduating from high school in 1965, began studying German, history and philosophy at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz. From 1969 on he taught for three years as an AHS teacher for German and history at the Lichtenfels Federal High School in Graz. Afterwards he worked for decades as a (culture) editor in Graz, initially at “Süd-Ost Tagespost” and “Kleine Zeitung” and in the meantime as an employee at “ ORF Steiermark ”. From 1988 to 2002 he was the head of the culture section of the “Steirerkrone” (“Kronen Zeitung”).

From 2002 Schmidt worked as a freelance writer, composer, painter, illustrator and freelance cultural journalist.

honors and awards

  • In 1978 Bernd Schmidt received the Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz.
  • 2005 Awarded the professional title of Professor
  • 2011 Award of the gold medal of the state of Styria

Works

Stage works (excerpt)

Own

  • Texts, compositions and piano accompaniment for the satirical evening “Attention! Freshly painted! ”With Jutta Panzenböck, Graz, 2011
  • Scripts and script drafts (for ORF); Chanson texts and music; Stage music; Directorial work; Piano accompaniment; graphic work, painting and illustration; Articles in various (literary) magazines ("Sterz", "moskito", "WAS" and others)

Edits

  • “The happiness of Jaro Svatek” (folk play in three acts based on Ludwig Nerz and Armin Friedmann), Pero Bühnenverlag, Vienna 1978;
  • many arrangements, both textually and musically, especially in the field of school and youth theater for the "Grazer Komödie / Styrian Tourneetheater" (director: Harald Kopp)
  • from 1970; Puppet shows for the "Styrian Puppet Theater";
  • Dramatization of the novel "The Last Austrian" by Alfred Kolleritsch for the "Grazer Theater im Keller" (premiere at TiK, 1998)
  • “A cellar full of fools” (for the Graz TiK, 1998; music: Berndt Luef; director: Reinhold Ulrych);
  • “A strong piece. Three one-act plays ”for the Schlossbergspiele Wildon, 1983 (director: Gerda Klimek); Text for the piece “Zeit für mich” (musical monologue for Uschi Plautz; music by Gottfried Wurzwallner; studio stage of the Graz Opera, 1991);
  • “The good person from next door”, a Bertolt Brecht collage, in the Graz Theatercafé , 2000 (with Uschi Plautz, Bernd Sračnik and Georg Schulz; director: Wolfgang Dobrowsky); extended version for Plautz and Sračnik: Studio stage of the Graz Opera House, 2013.
  • Adaptation and direction of the comedies "Honigmond" (by Gabriel Barylli) and "Charmed Balls" (by Sam M. Hawley and Bernd Schmidt) for the group "La Commedia" (in Landhaus Jöbstl, 2002 and 2003).
  • Guest production dramaturge and co-designer of the text for the erotic revue “Hot Hearts - Gentlemen's Evening with Ladies Choice” at the Graz Schauspielhaus (Director: Robert Schmidt; Set Designer: Jens Fiedler; Music: Albert Seidl; Choreography: Pascal Chanterie; 2003/04 season).
  • Text and music for the mythical “Penthesilea” (together with Gerda Klimek; concert performance in the Graz City Museum, 2004).
  • Adaptation of the farce "And all this on sickness certificate" by Ray Cooney (for the "Kleine Komödie / Kammerspiele Graz", 2010).

Fonts

Book publications

  • "Archibald onion hair". Texts for the children's book. R & M Verlag, Graz 1976.
  • “The happiness of Jaro Svatek”. Editing of the folk piece in three acts by Ludwig Nerz and Armin Friedmann. Stage and music publisher Hans Pero, Vienna 1978.
  • Texts for the children's book series "Our friend ... the poet, ... the musician, ... the sculptor, ... the painter", idea and illustrations: Paul Mangold. Mangold Verlag, Graz 1980 ff.
  • "The bet and other satires". Cover drawing: Alexander Wolf. Leykam, Graz 1990.
  • "The Successor and Other Stories". Cover drawing: Elisabeth Becker. Edition Strahalm, Graz 1991.
  • “With us in Ironville. A fairy tale from the Wild West ”. Illustrations: Fred Höfler. Andreas Schnider Publishing Studio, Graz - Esztergom - Paris - New York 1994.
  • “The Graz Opera from A to Z”. United Theaters, Graz 1998.
  • “I think Isidore is fine. Stories". Cover drawing and illustrations: Bernd Schmidt. Edition Strahalm, Graz 2000.
  • “Roller coaster. Stories". Cover and illustrations as above. Edition Strahalm, Graz 2000.
  • “Just say Zunzel to me. Stories". Cover and illustrations as above. Edition Strahalm, Graz 2001.
  • "Kivi. Stories, Aphorisms and a Dramolet ”. Cover and illustrations as above. Edition Strahalm, Graz 2002.
  • "The Cardinal's Hammer Toe and Other Evil Stories". Cover drawing: B. Schmidt. Verlag Franz, Eibiswald 2007.
  • "Essig & Öl - a Steirisches Gueule - The appetizers" with Gerry Wruss in the publishing house "Am Wochenrost" / Galerie-Stehcafé GesmbH, Graz 2008
  • "Bernd's Pictures - Books - Sounds". Pictures, graphics, notes, compositions, texts by Bernd Schmidt. Photos: Stefan Amsüss; Design: Peter Michael Ebbs. Art association "aus der reihe", Graz 2010. (With CD: Chanson compositions by B. Schmidt, the composer at the piano.)
  • “The South Styrian Wine Route. Between Welschriesling and Klapotetz. A story in pictures and texts ”. Texts: B. Schmidt. Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2010.

Scientific publications

  • Scientific collaboration, u. a. in the exhibition and book “Die Südbahn. From the Danube region to the Adriatic "(Ed .: Dr. Gerhard M. Dienes), Leykam, Graz 1987.
  • “The Upper Murtal” (with GM Dienes and Hubert Moser), Leykam, Graz 1989; as well as contributions to exhibition catalogs (Graz City Museum: "Water", "transLOKAL"; state exhibition "Wood" and on).
  • Numerous presentations (including: "Salome" / Oscar Wilde, "Styrian Minnesingers", "Father / Son Conflict: 'Dad will fix it ...", "The 50s") together with GM Dienes, City Museum Graz 2003.
  • for the series of lectures “On the beginnings of automobilism”: setting of Erich Kästner's poem “In the car over land”, interpreted by Cornelia Gasser, 2004 in the Graz City Museum.
  • Editorial supervision of the “Personality Walk” (“Famous Grazers on the Net”) for “2003 - Graz, European Capital of Culture”, Graz 2003.
  • Participation in the exhibition “Fritz Grünbaum. 1880–1941 ”in the Austrian Cabaret Archive based in Straden, May 2005.
  • Conceptual preparation of the virtual as well as the real exhibition “Robert Stolz. 1880–1975 "for the Graz City Museum, 2005. (It was - after the change in leadership in the City Museum - however not realized.)
  • Participation in the city museum exhibition "Raise the flags!" In June 2005.
  • Text contributions and editing of the facsimile edition of the atlas "Innerösterreich (...)" by Carl Joseph Kindermann, together with Gerhard M. Dienes, for Archivverlag, Vienna 2005.
  • “Once Vienna - Trieste. Das Südbahn-Lesebuch ”, together with Gerhard M. Dienes, for Leykam Verlag, Graz 2007.

Anthologies

  • "White-Green Treasure", ed. by Fritz P. Rinnhofer (publications of the Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek, Volume 27), Graz 2002;
  • "Select Europe - Graz", ed. by Markus Jaroschka, Gerhard M. Dienes u. a., Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2002;
  • "Our Styria - A white-green mosaic", ed. by Johannes Koren, Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz 2003; Contributions to “Sternstunde 2000”.
  • "The Countdown to Judgment Day" (by Sepp Rotwangl), Edition Styria Print, Graz 1998; “Cartoons” by Alexander Wolf, Styria, Graz - Vienna - Cologne 2001;
  • about the portraits of women by August Plocek in the commemorative publication “August Plocek”, Styria Printshop, Graz 2003;
  • to the painter Erika Wolf-Rubenzer in “Erika Wolf-Rubenzer. Pictures from 1990–2004 ”, Medienfabrik Graz / Peter Poppmeiers Publishing (Layout: Alexander Wolf), Graz 2004;
  • on the painter Hans Wolf in "Hans Wolf, Pictures from 1950–1970", Medienfabrik Graz / Peter Poppmeiers Verlagwesen (layout: Alexander Wolf), Graz 2011.

Sound recordings

  • “The alleged harmlessness. Ein deutscher Schlager ”with interpreter Cornelia Gasser, text, music and on the Hammond organ: Bernd Schmidt (recording: Prof. Heinz Anderwald), 2005; CD
  • “The bells of St. Anna” with interpreter C. Gasser, text, music and on the piano: B. Schmidt (recording: Prof. H. Anderwald), 2008. Contribution to the CD
  • “Accurate. Kabarettspitzen 1945–2000 “:“ Die intellectuals ”with interpreter Uschi Plautz, text, music and on the piano: B. Schmidt, ORF Steiermark 2000.

Visual arts

  • 2007 Exhibition of the work on the subject of "Precise" in the Graz "Galerie im Lend".
  • 12/2010 to 03/2011 Presentation of the Schmidt-Personale "Emergence Escapes ..." in the rooms of the "Chamber of Labor for Styria" in Graz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Schmidt died obituary notice Bernd Schmidt, kleinezeitung.at, September 27, 2016
  2. ↑ Bernd Schmidt. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 920, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  3. ↑ Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz, Graz 1978 ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kultur.steiermark.at
  4. ↑ Handing over of the certificate of the conferred professional title Professor, Steiermark Report, page 16, Graz 2005 ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kommunikation.steiermark.at
  5. ↑ Awarding of the gold medal of the state of Styria by Governor Franz Voves Press release, State of Styria, November 11th, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, composer, illustrator and cultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Styria
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 2016
Place of death Graz