Ernst Alexander Rauter

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Ernst Alexander Rauter (born April 27, 1929 in Klagenfurt ; † March 8, 2006 in Munich ) was an Austrian writer and language critic .

He was considered a "cult author of" The '68 generation and worked as a columnist for the left magazine concretely and as a ghost writer for the cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss . Hermann Peter Piwitt described him as a "very great of the German language".

A few titles were ordered in large numbers by those responsible for education at the DGB and have long been part of the basic equipment of trade union courses. This is how young metalworkers understood the path “from hand ax to factory” and printer apprentices discussed “How an opinion is formed in a head” with GEW- Paukern. He made IG-Bau-Steine-Erden members want to overcome the tutelage of professional writers and their educators in a self-experiment: "Striving for better style is striving for more democratic conditions."

The author, trained in foster care and reform homes, was a radical of the word. With him he danced, broke conventions and sparked passions. Obsessed with the task of "megalomaniac as I was, to write a work with the title" Information " analogous to Marx 's" Capital "" (1985 in an interview with Mathias Altenburg), Rauter sucked lying words from the newspapers that were in front of the Facing reality: “Writing means resisting words.” With the right words, he resisted an unconsciousness of language and a journalism that produces ideology instead of enlightenment. Which presupposes and promotes the helplessness of the reader, where the class interest should be unveiled before the information. In the little book "From dealing with words", he sharply judged the fruitless carelessness of left-wing word workers who did not master their tools. It wasn't until 1992 that someone asked him why he, the angry fighter for democracy, wasn't a union member yet. The trained typesetter did not want to accept an excuse and joined the Writers' Union (VS) .

The last years of his life Rauter so, the offspring of journalism schools and publishers - Academies to explain why they write so bad. Almost every week he published a media-critical column on the Internet ("Rauter, don't get angry!"), The 177th edition of which appeared on February 6 a few weeks before his death. At a meeting of the "Citizens' Initiative for Socialism" founded by Eckart Spoo in March 1990, EA Rauter pleaded for no longer using the word socialism . It is better to speak of production democracy. Because it is the appropriate word for a cause that seemed hopelessly discredited and finally lost. That was then not pursued further. Not to mention socialism. Don't get angry, Rauter, dance!

Most recently he worked as a teacher for writers and held seminars at the Munich Academy of the Bavarian Press and at the Salzburg Board of Trustees for Journalist Training .

Quotes

"Many colleagues pretend that you have to study half a year to cut up a pig or three years to sew a suit, but that everyone can write as soon as they get a little excited."

"When the journalists get solemn in capitalism, you have to inquire about the profit margin."

- From the hand ax to the factory. Weismann Verlag, Munich 1977, p. 174

Works

  • Spell life (autobiographical novel). Gollenstein Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-935731-82-5
  • Letter to my educators (autobiographical novel). Weismann, Munich 1980 (2nd edition) ISBN 3-921040-62-0
  • The artistic work of seduction (autobiographical novel). Ullstein 1981, ISBN 3-550-06457-8
  • What do we actually work for? (Non-fiction book). Rasch and Röhring , Hamburg 1988 ISBN 3-89136-156-4
  • From hand ax to factory (non-fiction book). Weismann, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-921040-13-2 , new edition: Manifest Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3961560707
  • How an opinion arises in a head. About the making of subjects (non-fiction book). Weismann, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-921040-04-3 full text
  • The new school of writing (non-fiction). Econ 1996, ISBN 3-430-17661-1
  • From dealing with words (non-fiction book). Antje Kunstmann 1978, ISBN 3-921040-53-1
  • Mallorca: The country behind the stage (non-fiction book). Rasch & Röhring, Hamburg 1988 ISBN 3-89136-191-2
  • Kunerma, the place where nobody lives. As a West German guest worker in the Siberian taiga (report). Baulino Verlag 1979, ISBN 3-203-50706-4
  • Torture in the past and present from Nero to Pinochet (non-fiction book / lexicon). Eichborn (new edition 1988), ISBN 3-8218-1245-1
  • You should get to know me ... The house of finished sentences (young people's book). rororo 1972, ISBN 3-499-20014-7
  • Heinz Felsbach, Ernst Alexander Rauter (eds.): International Publizistik-Preis Klagenfurt 1987. Texts, theses, reactions . Paul List, 1988 ISBN 3-471-77542-0
  • Meinrad Rahofer (Ed.): Rauter, don't get angry! - A collection of the weekly language reviews by EA Rauter, Journalistik-Heft Nr. 16/2002, Salzburg 2002

Web links

Wikiquote: Ernst Alexander Rauter  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ specifically 4/2006
  2. ↑ Michael Knoche in "Menschen -machen.Medien" , May 2006, by ver.di
personal data
SURNAME Rauter, Ernst Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2006
Place of death Munich