Franz-Joseph Huainigg

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Franz-Joseph Huainigg (born June 16, 1966 in Paternion , Carinthia ) is an Austrian author and ÖVP politician. From 2002 to 2017 he was a member of the National Council with interruptions .

Life

Franz-Joseph Huainigg suffered severe disabilities in the first year of life, presumably due to a vaccination, and has since been dependent on a wheelchair . He received his doctorate in German. In the 1990s, Huainigg founded the Wiener KrüppelKabarett .

From December 20, 2002 to October 27, 2008, he was a member of the National Council for the ÖVP and initially resigned from parliament after the 2008 National Council election. After Beatrix Karl moved to the federal government, Huainigg moved back to the National Council on January 27, 2010. For the National Council election on September 29, 2013 , he ran for 12th place on the ÖVP federal list. After the departure of Michael Spindelegger , who again became Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister in the government, Huainigg moved up to the National Council. For the 2017 National Council election , it was no longer nominated by the ÖVP, which has now come under new leadership .

Huainigg was the disability spokesman for the ÖVP. He is married and has a daughter and a foster son.

In 2007 Huainigg founded the Austrian literary prize "Ohrenschmaus" for people with learning difficulties, which has been awarded annually since then.

In 2007, as a reaction to the “ Licht ins Dunkel ” campaign, which was extensively shown on Austrian television, Huainigg initiated the “Not into the dark” campaign, which criticized the false image of the disabled as objects of pity spread by the media and instead called for better social integration.

In 2013, Huainigg initiated the website rechtsleicht.at - making politics understandable , on which political terms and processes are explained in simple language .

In 2017, Huainigg left the National Council after 15 years. He says goodbye with a much respected speech and a farewell poem about "God and the world". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJ9JWAu3a0&t=33s .


God and the world

As a child, my legs were suddenly paralyzed. I cried and no longer understood God and the world.

Then God said: I will take away the strength of your legs and give you slowness.

So I discovered a new world, slowly crawling on the floor.

As a teenager, I suddenly couldn't walk with crutches.

I cried and no longer understood God and the world.

Then God said: I will take the strength in your arms and give you wit and irony in return.

So I discovered a new world in a wheelchair and made people laugh on the cabaret stage.

Years later, I couldn't move my arms or legs. I cried and no longer understood God and the world.

Then God said: The less you move, the more you move.

So I started to change the world a little and became a politician.

Today I can no longer breathe without a machine. I cried and no longer understood God and the world.

Then God said: I will take away the strength of your lungs and give you a long breath. To fight for the dignity of life.


Huainigg has been working in the Humanitarian Broadcasting department of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) as a representative for accessibility since 2019 .

Private

Huainigg met his future wife during a handicapped campaign in the student union ÖH.


Awards

Works

  • Masquerade of this world. Poems. Vienna: European Publishing House, 1984
  • Live me Carinthia for the disabled and the elderly. 1989
  • The suspension of time in the subject. On the thought structure in Bernhard's novel the "extinction". Thesis. University of Klagenfurt, 1991
  • If I weren't who I am 1991, ISBN 3-85366-688-4
  • What's he got? Children over the disabled. 1993
  • Speedy Conny or: When Conny, Zoppelhoppel and Speedy learned to fly. Children's play, 1993
  • Disabled people and the media. Dissertation, 1993
  • Healer and Prophet: the life of Hans-Peter Paulussen and his predictions with Nostradamus, 1992, ISBN 3-923781-68-7
  • My feet are the wheelchair. 1993, ISBN 3-219-11097-5
  • Fred has time. 1996, ISBN 3-85264-513-1
  • Fate daily. For the representation of disabled people on ORF. 1996. ISBN 3-7065-1140-1
  • Does it have to be love right away? A wheelchair wedding. 2001, ISBN 3-85052-115-X - His wife Judith rolled around town on roller skates with the man in a wheelchair.
  • Max paints thoughts . 1999, ISBN 3-7072-6603-6
  • O my handicapped Austria! On the situation of disabled people. 1999, ISBN 3-85435-312-X
  • Knights have an easy laugh. Contemplating life from a wheelchair. 2003, ISBN 3-85052-114-1
  • Barriers in laws and minds - How in solidarity does society treat disabled people? , 2004
  • We Talk With Our Hands , 2005, ISBN 3-219-11218-8
  • We understand each other blindly. 2005, ISBN 3-219-11198-X
  • Who Makes the Laws? Parliament and politics in Austria. 2005. ISBN 3-8000-1603-6
  • We're great together. , 2007, ISBN 3-219-11291-9
  • with Susanne Wechdorn (illustration): From my time and your time , children's book, Annette Betz Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-219-11383-9 .
  • with Verena Ballhaus (illustration): breathless. Florian has asthma . Betz Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-219-11439-3 .
  • (Ed.) With Action Life : Out of the stomach. Prenatal Diagnostics and Disabled Living. Wiener Dom-Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85351-217-3 .
  • with Annegret Ritter (pictures): We laugh each other healthy. Children's book, Wiener Dom-Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85351-221-0 .
  • Barrier-free Vienna. Life and mobility guide for disabled people. Kleine Schlaue series, Falter Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85439-450-1 .
  • (Ed.): Can't sleep. Ohrenschmaus literature award: the best texts. Verl. Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2011, ISBN 978-3-902416-94-0 .
  • with Inge Fasan (text) and Michaela Weiss (illustration): Wahid wants to stay. Verl. Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2014, ISBN 978-3-99028-372-1 .
  • (Ed.): Two people are less alone. Ohrenschmaus literature award: the best texts. Publishing House Library of the Province , Weitra 2016, ISBN 978-3-99028-560-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BIZEPS ÖVP federal list: Franz-Joseph Huainigg only reached 12th place
  2. ↑ BIZEPS author profile and article by Franz-Joseph Huainigg
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. KomInform  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kominform.at
  4. ↑ websiterechtleicht.at
  5. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Huainigg, Franz-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Paternion