Christian Loidl

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christian Loidl (born September 17, 1957 in Linz , † December 16, 2001 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and performer .

Life

Born in Linz, he first studied German and psychology at the University of Vienna . At this time he was also engaged in Far Eastern meditation practices and philosophies, especially Tibetan Buddhism . He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1984 with a thesis on Doris Mühringer .

He then earned his living as a freelance writer and with journalistic contributions for radio programs and feature pages . They appeared u. a. in the Diagonal , in the Spectrum (weekend supplement to the press ) and in Ö1 . In addition, literary magazines published his first poems, and first readings in front of an audience took place.

The literature of the Beat Generation with its protagonists such as William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Jack Kerouac and Anne Waldman had a lasting influence on his work . Loidl met some of these writers during a stay at the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, USA in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was particularly enthusiastic about the poet Harry Smith (1936–2012).

Inspired by experiences with communicating poetry, he started the “School for Poetry” in 1992 together with other authors, including Christian Ide Hintze . In the next few years Loidl was a welcome guest at poetry events, for example in 1992 in Struga, Macedonia and at the Poetic Spring Lithuania in Vilnius , at the Milano Poesia 1993, the New Rage Festival Amsterdam 1995, the Festival de Poesía Medellín 1999, the Austrian Psycho Nites in Berlin 2000, the Autumn Festival Lithuania in the same year and the International Poetry Festival in Rosario 2001.

On December 16, 2001, he died as a result of falling from his apartment window.

plant

Loidl focused on writing and performing poetry . He was a "literary world traveler" who appeared in various places in order to bring his works closer to the public with expressive lectures.

believe the mistaken gardeners
their hypocrisy and greed

believe
the dead in sight when you
build dungeons for ideas
(from "believe the misguided")

He also worked with musicians such as Marwan Abado , Martina Cizek , Beat Furrer , Bernhard Lang , Otto Lechner and Wolfgang Musil .

Books:

  • white speech. Poems. (edition umbruch, Mödling 1990)
  • false prophecies. poems. (edition selene, Vienna 1994)
  • Viennese mysteries. Prose. Foreword by Andreas Okopenko. (edition selene, Vienna 1995)
  • fern blossom. poems. (edition selene, Vienna 1996)
  • pupil. poems. (edition selene, Vienna 1998)
  • ot. (somnambule rasanzen) (edition selene, Vienna 1999)
  • no one mirror / oglinda nimanui. Poems, bilingual. Book & cassette. (Verlag Kriterion, Bucharest no year)
  • smallest skills. memories from a secret childhood. Book and CD (with Otto Lechner). (edition selene, Vienna 2000)
  • black snot. poems and knife cuts for hc artmann, Jo Kuehn (together with Joseph Kühn). (edition selene, Vienna 2002)

Sound carrier:

  • we have to be as quiet as peaches. spoken poems. (edition umbruch, Mödling 1990)
  • false prophecies. CD. (edition selene, Vienna 1994)
  • at home with us. spells and songs. CD. (edition selene, Vienna 1998)
  • smallest skills. memories from a secret childhood. CD (with Otto Lechner). (edition selene, Vienna 2000)

Translations:

  • Hakim Bey, Radio Sermonettes (with Jack Hauser and David Ender ). (edition selene, Vienna 1996.)
  • Peter Lamborn Wilson, scandal! Essays on Islamic Heresy. (edition selene, Vienna 1997)
  • William Levy, our friend Otto Mühl. (Werner Pieper's MedienXperimente, Löhrbach 1998)
  • Lidija Simkute, White Shadows. (edition selene, Vienna 2000)
  • Ruth Weiss, A circle completes itself / Full circle. (edition exil, Vienna 2001)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Loidl, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and performer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2001
Place of death Vienna