Dieter Schrage

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Dieter Schrage ( Hermann Dieter Schrage; born June 28, 1935 in Hagen ; † June 29, 2011 in Vienna ) was an Austrian cultural scientist , activist and politician ( Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative ).

Life

Hermann Dieter Schrage grew up in Singen and Bochum . In Aachen he attended a journalism school before he studied theater studies , first at the University of Cologne , then at the University of Vienna , and in 1967 received his doctorate in philosophy through Saladin Schmitt . He had been based in Vienna since 1960. In 1966 he took on Austrian citizenship. He was a father of two and a grandfather. His son Götz Schrage was born in 1960 and lives as a photographer in Vienna.

After doing artistic work as a ceramist , Schrage became cultural advisor to the Vienna Art Fund of the Central Savings Bank of the City of Vienna in 1968 . In this position, which he held until 1979, he recommended artistic projects for funding from the art fund of this bank and savings bank. In 1971 he co-founded and until 1974 partly also head of the outdoor cinemas that as cinema was groundbreaking for Vienna. From 1979 to 2001 he worked as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art . He held teaching positions at the universities of Vienna (Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies; Institute for Folklore) and Salzburg (Institute for Journalism) as well as at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Aesthetic Theory). His academic work focused on cultural politics , art theory , popular aesthetics and subculture / counterculture .

The social democrat Schrage radicalized himself politically under the impression of the extra-parliamentary opposition of the late 1960s. He was involved in the Wiener Arena movement in 1976 and became a member of the Green Alternative in 1987 . Schrage was also an anarchist who gave numerous lectures on theoretical, historical and practical aspects of anarchism .

Despite suffering from severe diabetes from 1989 onwards, Schrage remained culturally and politically active; In 1992, both of his lower legs had to be amputated. In 1992 he founded the Pierre Ramus Society . He was a long-time board member of the Green Alternative Vienna and took over the position as spokesman for the Green Seniors Initiative, which he founded in 1997 and of which he was elected honorary member in 2009. In 2007 he organized a graffiti exhibition with Norbert Siegl on right-wing extremist symbols and slogans .

Dieter Schrage, who was extremely active to the end despite his serious illness, died completely unexpectedly on June 29, 2011 in his apartment in the Sargfabrik residential and cultural project in Vienna.

In 1994 Schrage received the City of Vienna Prize for Popular Education .

Publications

  • Saladin Schmitt at the Stadttheater Bochum (1919–1949). Dissertation. Vienna 1967
  • (Ed.): Montage resonances. Assembly as a principle in the work of Willy Sales-Verlon. with pictures and words. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85115-158-5
  • (Ed.): Wolfgang Paalen. Between surrealism and abstraction. Ritter, Klagenfurt 1993, ISBN 3-85415-124-1
  • with Philipp Maurer (Ed.): Realistic Art in Vienna 1945 - 1995. A mirror. An exhibition of the small gallery in the customer center of Wiener Linien, January 17 to February 15, 1996. Society for Art and Public Education, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-901293-02-7
  • (Ed.): Situationist International 1957–1972. Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, 20er Haus, January 31, 1998–15. March 1998. Triton, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85486-006-4
  • How I wanted to go over the top again and got from bad to worse in the process. Texts on an alternative green policy. Eichbauer, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-901699-07-4
  • (Ed.): Hermann Nitsch, 6-day game in Prinzendorf 1998. Relics and relic installations, action painting, photos and video. Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Palais Liechtenstein, March 27–16. May 1999. Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-900776-80-6
  • with Norbert Siegl (Ed.): Right-wing extremist symbols and slogans. Graffiti and stickers as a medium of intercultural communication. Graffiti Edition, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-901927-20-1

literature

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Footnotes

  1. ^ The Green Seniors: Dieter Schrage, the anarchist, art mediator, revolutionary and spokesman for the Green Seniors turned 70 ( Memento from August 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). June 24, 2005
  2. ^ The Green Seniors: Dieter Schrage's withdrawal from his DGS function ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). July 12, 2009
  3. ↑ Dieter Schrage: "The Serenity of Science". A symposium on right-wing extremist graffiti . Website of the Institute for Graffiti Research. 2008
personal data
SURNAME Schrage, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian cultural scientist and activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2011
Place of death Vienna