Branko Andrić
Branko Andrić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бранко Андрић ; born April 9, 1942 in Novi Sad , Yugoslavia ; † October 20, 2005 in Dunaújváros , Hungary ) was a Serbian writer and artist who lived in Novi Sad and Vienna .
Andrić belonged to the Novosad neo-avant-garde art movement, but also to the Serbian writers and Austrian painters and draftsmen of the 1970s and 1980s. He co-founded the Vienna Arena .
Life
Branko Andrić was born in Novi Sad on April 9, 1942, during World War II . His father - also Branko Andrić (* 1921; † 1942) - was arrested two months before his birth by Hungarian SS troops in the course of the Novi Sader raid in 1942 and, like thousands of others, died in the frozen Danube.
After graduating from a humanistic grammar school (Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj), Branko Andrić graduated from the Higher School of Political Science in Belgrade and the Higher Pedagogical School in the Fine Arts course in Novi Sad. After completing his studies, he began to publish in various Yugoslav cultural magazines (Letopis Matice Srpske, Student, Knjizevna rec, Index, OKO, Rijecka revija, Polja, Lica, and many more). Andrić gave numerous readings throughout Yugoslavia and worked on films by Dušan Makavejev , Želimir Žilnik and Karpo Aćimović Godina . The short film "Litany for Ideal People" by Karpo Acimovic-Godina with texts and musical accompaniment by Branko Andric was awarded first prize at the short film festival in Belgrade and the journalist prize in Oberhausen.
In 1972 Branko Andrić moved to Vienna. Here he met Dieter Schrage and took part in the free cinema program. In addition to his drawing activity, he began to write poems in German ("Gastarbeitergedichte"), which were self-published in the late 1970s, and participated in the founding and liveliness of the Vienna Arena (domestic slaughterhouse). His contribution to the program of the Vienna Arena from the 1970s to the 1990s included numerous readings of his guest worker poems and the organization of several alternative music festivals at which bands from all parts of what was then Yugoslavia could be seen. He has received numerous highly endowed art prizes at art competitions in Austria and was one of the most successful artists of the 1970s and 1980s.
On October 20, 2005, Branko Andrić was killed on a country road near Dunaújváros in Hungary in a traffic accident caused by a wrong-way driver .
The band "Imperivm of Jazz"
At the end of the 1970s, Branko Andrić founded the band "Vojvodin Blues Band", with whom he performed several times as a singer in Belgrade and Novi Sad. He gave up the band, which existed until around 2004, and founded the band "Imperivm of Jazz" (also written as "Imperium of Jazz") in 1980. The total number of musicians who played in Imperivm of Jazz is estimated at 150, which means that almost every musician from Novi Sad has played in the band at least once. Some of these musicians were Boris Kovac, Zoran Bulatovic-Bale, Jovan Torbica and Predrag Jandric. The band existed until his death in 2005.
Web links
- Website of the Branko Andric Center in Vienna
- Branko Andric. Within the framework of art. On the verge of politics. Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , 2007 (with CV and photo)
- Short biography at INST: Institute for Research and Promotion of Regional and Transnational Cultural Processes
- Works in the German Literature Archive Marbach [1]
- Works in the art collection of the MUSA cultural department of the City of Vienna [2]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andrić, Branko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Andric, Branko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav or Serbian writer and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Novi Sad , Yugoslavia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 2005 |
| Place of death | Dunaújváros , Hungary |