Dietmar Polaczek

Dietmar Polaczek (2005)

Dietmar Polaczek (born October 26, 1942 in Bendsburg / Oberschlesien , today Będzin in Poland, † May 7, 2020 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer, writer, music critic and cultural journalist.

biography

Polaczek's parents came from Bukovina and were resettled during the war. He grew up in Styria and, after graduating from high school in Leoben, first studied architecture , at the same time (1961–1970) music at the Graz University of Music (violin and viola with Christos Polyzoides , organ with Franz Illenberger , composition with Waldemar Bloch ). After dropping out of architecture studies at Graz University of Technology , 1965–1971 studied musicology (with Othmar Wessely ) and art history at the University of Graz .

In 1953, Polaczek began climbing in the Gesäuse and was thereafter as a climber in the Alps and non-European mountains until 2016. As a cartoonist and article author, he worked for the alpine magazines Der Bergkamerad , Bergsteiger (magazine) , Alpinismus (now Alpin ) and Berge (magazine) , for the yearbook of the Club Alpino Accademico Italiano and the Alpine Club yearbook.

He earned his studies as a working student in various professions. In 1964 he received the first composition prize at the International Youth Culture Weeks in Innsbruck . In 1965 he began to write music reviews in local newspapers and was co-editor of Harald Kaufmann for a year in the cultural section of the Graz daily Neue Zeit for one year . In 1969 he completed his studies with a diploma in composition. From 1971 he lived as a freelance composer, publicist and music critic, especially for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich, in 1976 he took over the music editing of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

In 1981 he became the cultural correspondent for the FAZ based in Milan . At the end of 2003 he left the newspaper and lived as a freelance journalist and writer near Milan; since 2011 he lived in Vienna. He married an Italian in 1987 and had two Austrian-Italian-Brazilian daughters.

Fonts (selection)

• Richard Strauss - Subject and Metamorphoses. in Intellectuals under the spell of National Socialism , Ed. Karl Corino, Verlag Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1980. ISBN
• Italy. Land without end . Anthology, edited by Volker Hage, Thomas Schröder. Most of the texts are by Dietmar Polaczek. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 1986. ISBN 3-7774-4120-1
• No beautiful country - no alpine symphony. How musical is the call of the mountains? in: Berg '89. [Alpenvereins-Jahrbuch] (Journal. Volume 113) . Rother, Munich, 1989. ISBN 3-7633-8052-3
• Instructions for use for Italy . Piper, Munich 1988. ISBN 978-3-492-03056-4
• Beloved Chaos Italy . Koehler & Amelang (Klinkhard & Biermann), Munich / Berlin 1st edition 1998; 3rd edition 2000. ISBN 3-7338-0220-9
• The land of misunderstandings in To Italy! , Ed. Klaus Wagenbach, Wagenbach Verlag, Salto; Berlin 2000. ISBN 978-3-8031-1188-3
• Command Action Moses. How Venice should be made safe from floods forever . in Venice: Baustelle Kunst , DU No. 735, Zurich 2003. ISBN 3-908515-72-6 .
• 7,000 more articles and reviews in the Neue Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , in music magazines ( Musica , Neue Musikzeitung , Music and Medicine , Opernwelt , Opera London and others), essays for the Salzburg Festival almanac in the Residenz Verlag and in the Cultural magazine DU ; Contributions to programs and yearbooks of opera houses.
• TV and radio broadcasts on most of the ARD channels , mostly music reviews, music ethnological broadcasts (Persian music) on NDR and WDR .

Musical works (selection)

• 5 analog sonatinas , 1963 violin and piano
• Variazioni della Moderna (piano parodies on composers of the 20th century) 1963
• Vernissage septenaire , 1963–64, large orchestra
• Lantern songs for high voice and piano, 1964
• Duelet , violin and piano, for Michael Schnitzler and Walter Kamper 1964
• Concertino for strings, 19 # +
• Christ has risen , organ, for Ernst Triebel, 1965
• Metamorphoses and Fugue , guitar, for Erika Pircher, 1965
• Hymn of Praise (after Brecht) for choir and instruments, 1966
• lesabéndio , wind quintet, 1966
• Piano concerto, piano and orchestra, for Walter Kamper, 1968
• die row row , flute solo, for Karl-Bernhard Sebon , 1968
• applaus I + II for conductor, speaker, choir and 2 percussionists, 1970
• small blower music for chamber ensemble, 1974
• gut and wire , violoncello and piano, 1975, for Heinrich Schiff and Käthe Wittlich
• Hommage à Satie (porridge and chunks) , organ, for Zsigmond Szathmáry , 1978

Translations

• Vito Albergo, Renzo Vatti: The glamorous history of the San Galgano hermitage and abbey . Foreword by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. German edition translated from Italian by Dietmar Polaczek, Cantini Edizioni d'Arte, Florence 1985.
• Marco Volken: Badile. Granite cathedral . AS Verlag, Zurich 2006. Translation into Italian by Dietmar Polaczek: Badile. Cattedrale di granito . Bellavite, Missaglia 2008. ISBN 978-88-7511-080-2 . The Italian edition was awarded in 2008 by the Premio Nazionale Letterario Leggimontagna (Club Alpino Italiano) .

Awards

• 1964 - 1st composition prize of the International Youth Culture Weeks Innsbruck for Vernissage septenaire

proof

1. ↑ Obituary notice in the FAZ, May 16, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020
2. ↑ The publisher later used the same title for another author's book without the author's consent.
3. ^ Edition Modern, MHW, Munich
4. ↑ Universal Edition Vienna
5. ↑ Christine Riccabona, Erika Wimmer, Milena Meller: The Austrian Youth Culture Weeks 1950–1969 in Innsbruck. Tone characters: line jumps. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7065-1934-2 .

literature

• Christine Riccabona, Erika Wimmer, Milena Meller: The Austrian Youth Culture Weeks 1950–1969 in Innsbruck. Tone characters: line jumps ,

Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7065-1934-2 .

• Riemann Musiklexikon, 12th edition, supplementary volume Person Teil L – Z, Schott's Söhne, Mainz 1975.

Web links

• Website Dietmar Polaczek
• Dietmar Polaczek in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)