Bernhard Kathan

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Bernhard Kathan (born June 20, 1953 in Fraxern ) is an Austrian writer and conceptual artist .

Life

Bernhard Kathan studied at the University of Innsbruck the subjects educational science and psychology . After graduating, Kathan worked on various research projects dealing with questions of everyday research . He founded the Innsbruck Institute for Everyday Research and was editor of the series of publications on qualitative social research . At the end of the eighties he turned increasingly to questions of historical anthropology , occupied himself with the changing understanding of pain and death , with the history of animal love and the organization of perception . Working as an artist for a long time, Kathan withdrew from the gallery and exhibition business around 1990. At the end of the 1990s he founded the Hidden Museum, which he operated until 2018. For years he has dealt with various aspects of totalitarian rule in relation to social, political and technological developments .

position

As a writer, Kathan takes up assembly techniques, mostly using waste materials from scientific projects. He understands his artistic projects, which are often accompanied by intensive research, as field research in which possible results lose importance in favor of the process. He conducts historical, anthropological and medical research on current issues , the results of which are presented in multimedia form. Since September 2019, he has published a series of novels on his website every three weeks with the title Museum of Sexual Piety , in which questions of reproductive medicine are played out.

Awards

  • 2006: Award for literary debut, sponsor Federal Chancellery Austria
  • 2009: outstanding award for an interdisciplinary cultural project, sponsored by the Austrian Federal Chancellery
  • 2014: Hilde Zach literary scholarship from the city of Innsbruck

Publications

Monographs

  • "... all a continuation of Dachau and Mauthausen." The letters of the Austrian journalist Nikolaus Hovorka. new academic press, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7003-2079-1 .
  • We look at animals. Limbus, Hohenems 2014, ISBN 978-3-99039-026-9 .
  • Silence. Limbus, Hohenems 2012, ISBN 978-3-902534-74-3 .
  • Hunger artist . Limbus, Hohenems 2010, ISBN 978-3-902534-39-2 .
  • Cowshed at night . Peter Trachsel (ed.). Dalvazza / Küblis, 2010.
  • Beautiful new cowshed world. Domination, control and cattle farming . Schmitz, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-92779550-X .
  • The indiscreet organ. Organ transplants in literary arrangements . Studienverlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4400-9 .
  • Nothing is lost. Libelle, Lengwil 2006, ISBN 3-90570705-5 .
  • Knitwear, swimsuit, insemination kit. An obituary for the peasant culture . Studienverlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2006, ISBN 3-70654197-1 .
  • To love Somebody to bits. Between the domestic animal and the slaughterhouse . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931659-48-8 .
  • The misery of the medical arts. Another history of medicine . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931659-34-8 .
  • The poultry slaughter shears or the invention of the love of animals . Österreichischer Studienverlag, Innsbruck 1993.
  • Disappeared and rare guests on the menu . A cookbook. On-site, Innsbruck 1992.

Speaking and listening pieces

  • 2020: All nonsense is canceled. Audio play about Daniel Paul Schreber in the Kunsthaus Biel with Katrin Daliot as speaker
  • 2008: Hunger Artist . ORF Kunstradio
  • 2008: The inn at the hand of the hanged man . Radio play , ORF (setting: Manuela Kerer, speaker: Sophie Wendt, director: Martin Sailer ; sound engineer: Michael Mangweth)
  • 2006: No rose-colored blood. Who should have mercy? (Setting: Wolfgang Lindner), Feldkirch
  • 2005: you, you; thrown in a mess . Sound installation (setting: Günther Zechberger), Wien Museum
  • 2002: One is God. My beloved has six lives. The governor is responsible for transporting live animals to be killed . A radio piece with music by Günther Zechberger, Innsbruck / Kunstradio 2002
  • 1999: Like God, the doctor is a murderer . Innsbruck / Kunstradio
  • 1996: Everything you always wanted to know about AIDS . Speaking piece for an actor, Innsbruck / Kunstradio

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personal data
SURNAME Kathan, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Fraxern