Friedrich Achleitner

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Friedrich Achleitner (2010)

Friedrich Achleitner (born May 23, 1930 in Schalchen, Upper Austria ; † March 27, 2019 in Vienna ; the name is emphasized on the second syllable) was an Austrian architect , architecture critic and writer . As a man of letters he was a major exponent of modern dialect poems and concrete poetry , and as an essayist he was an important critic and chronicler of modern architecture. He was a member of the Landluft association - association for the promotion of building culture in rural areas .

life and work

youth

Interior of the parish church Hetzendorf or Rosenkranzkirche, redesigned by Achleitner and Gsteu from 1956 to 1958 (2009); with the altar paintings by Ernst Fuchs (painter) attached in 1960

Friedrich Achleitner was the son of a farmer and miller who trained as a mill technician. The family experienced the destruction of the Second World War first hand : Shortly before the end of the fighting, their parents' house was badly damaged and uninhabitable.

Degree, architect

After graduating from high school , Achleitner went to Vienna , where he studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1950 to 1953 . In 1953 he graduated from Clemens Holzmeister .

He then worked as a freelance architect in a joint venture with Johann Georg Gsteu , who was responsible for the then controversial redesign of the interior of the parish church in Hetzendorf ("purifying reinterpretation" of neo-Romanesque architecture) from 1956 to 1958 .

Achleitner also studied stage design at Emil Pirchan's master school .

Writer and critic

In 1958 Achleitner stopped practicing architecture and became a freelance writer. He is counted to the Viennese group , which mainly wrote modern dialect poems. Within this group, Achleitner directed his interest primarily to phonetic spellings. In 1959, Achleitner's joint work with HC Artmann and Gerhard Rühm published the book hosn rosn baa , eight years later the anthology die wiener gruppe .

From 1961 Friedrich Achleitner turned again to architecture, as a critic for the Abendzeitung (column building sins ) and from 1962 to 1972 for Die Presse . In his contributions, he vehemently criticized the destruction of old buildings and urban densification by high-rise buildings (such as the horticultural high-rise or the Hotel Intercontinental Vienna). From 1963 to 1983 Achleitner taught the history of building construction at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In addition to dialect poems, Achleitner worked on concrete poetry and montage texts, encouraged by Eugen Gomringer . With the quadratroman (1973) Achleitner systematized the typographical studies he had undertaken up to then by describing the hero of his novel, the eponymous square, a total of 174 times (including cover and imprint ) with over, under, in, out and descriptions provided.

In 1983 Achleitner became chairman of the chair for the history and theory of architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since his retirement in 1998 Achleitner has published works of fiction again.

Architectural Chronist

From 1965 to 2010 Friedrich Achleitner worked on his main work, Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century , a guide in four volumes , three of which (Volume III in three parts) were published by 2010. (Volume IV, Lower Austria, must now be created by younger people, said Achleitner.)

For this globally unique work, Achleitner has collected and evaluated material for decades, has visited every building mentioned in the guide and has thus architecturally measured Austria. The critic Stephan Reimertz spoke of one

"Result of consistent primary research, based on the evaluation of all available archival sources, the personal authentic inspection of all buildings and their linguistic architecture-critical evaluation."

1981 doctorate Achleitner the published work since 1980 at the Technical University of Graz for Dr. techn. (Doctor of Technology).

The archive on which the work is based was purchased by the City of Vienna in 2000 on the occasion of Achleitner's 70th birthday and given to the Architekturzentrum Wien to establish a database on Austrian architecture. The archive's holdings include 25,030 index cards, 66,500 photo negatives, 37,800 slides, 13,800 photo prints, 570 plans, 250 inspection plans and 1030 books, brochures, catalogs and magazines.

death

Friedrich Achleitner died on March 27, 2019 in Vienna. The funeral service took place on April 11, 2019 in the Simmering fire hall .

Quote

“ Gustav Mahler said so beautifully: 'Not the ashes, but the fire should be carried on.' There is always regional architecture, it just shouldn't become regionalistic. So no formal clothing, costumes , but an architecture that develops from the cultural, human and economic resources of a country. The benchmarks are of course the major international trends. It has always been like that, from the Gothic to the Renaissance to historicism and modernity . "

honors and awards

Works

Non-fiction

  • Austrian architecture in the 20th century. A guide in three [from Volume III / 1: four] volumes. Edited by Museum of Modern Art Vienna and Architekturzentrum Wien (Volume III / 3). Residence, Salzburg.
    • Volume I: Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg. 1980, ISBN 3-7017-0248-9 .
    • Volume II: Carinthia, Styria, Burgenland. 1983, ISBN 3-7017-0322-1 .
    • Volume III / 1: Vienna, 1. – 12. District. 1990, ISBN 3-7017-0635-2 .
    • Volume III / 2: Vienna, 13.-18. District. 1995, ISBN 3-7017-0704-9 .
    • Volume III / 3: Vienna, 19. – 23. District. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3209-8 .
    • For reasons of age, Friedrich Achleitner was no longer able to publish the planned Volume IV on Lower Austria.
  • Friedrich Achleitner's view of Austria's architecture after 1945. Linz lectures. Edited by the Art University Linz with Roland Gnaiger . With contributions by Reinhard Kannonier : Der Achleitner. , Roland Gnaiger: Densification of compression. and Dietmar Steiner : Afterword. Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-0356-0280-7 .

Fiction

  • hosn rosn baa. With a record by HC Artmann and Gerhard Rühm . Frick, Vienna 1959.
  • heavy black. Gomringer, Frauenfeld 1960.
  • prose, constellations, montages, dialect poems, studies. Collected texts. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1970.
  • quadrat-roman u. other square things; 1 new educational novel, 1 new development novel etc. etc. etc. etc. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1973 (new edition Zsolnay, Vienna 2007).
  • with Gerhard Rühm: Super-Rekord 50 + 50. Edition Neue Texte, Linz 1990.
  • kaaas. Dialect poems. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1991.
  • sleep stories. Zsolnay, Vienna 2003.
  • Wiener lines. Zsolnay, Vienna 2004.
  • and or or and. Zsolnay, Vienna 2006.
  • the point. Zsolnay, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-552-05471-4 .
  • iwahaubbd. dialect poems. Zsolnay, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-552-05546-9 .
  • A flower to the dead. The monuments of Bogdan Bogdanovic . Zsolnay, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-552-05647-3 .
  • verbosity. Zsolnay, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-552-05712-8 .
  • sleep stories. Zsolnay, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-552-05776-0 .

Essay writing

  • with Ottokar Uhl : Lois Welzenbacher 1889–1955. Residence, Salzburg 1968.
  • The goods landscape. A critical analysis of the concept of landscape. Edited by Friedrich Achleitner. Residence, Salzburg 1977.
  • with Jochen Jung : Happy Austria. Literary tour of a fatherland. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1978.
  • Austrian architecture in the 20th century. A guide in four volumes. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1980–1990.
  • Down with Fischer von Erlach . Residenz, Salzburg 1986 (collected reviews).
  • Invitation to trust. Essays on architecture. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1987.
  • The backward-looking utopia. Motor of progress in Viennese architecture. Picus, Vienna 1994.
  • Viennese architecture. Between typological fatalism and semantic mess. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1996.
  • The Plotteggs are coming. A report. Special number, Vienna 1996.
  • Region, a construct? Regionalism, a bankruptcy? Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1997.
  • how do you design an architect? Portraits from Aalto to Zumthor . Park Books, Zurich 2015.
  • Friedrich Achleitner's look at Austria's architecture after 1945. Birkhäuser, Basel 2015.

literature

  • Martin A. Hainz : »do write i fai nix nai«. Architecture, language and possibility with Friedrich Achleitner. In: Roman Kopřiva, Jaroslav Kovář (eds.): Art and music in literature. Aesthetic interrelationships in contemporary Austrian literature . Praesens, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7069-0286-9 , pp. 73-99.

Filmography

  • Heinz Karbus - a life for architecture . a documentation by David Pasek with Friedrich Achleitner, 2007.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Achleitner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ author and architecture critic Friedrich Achleitner's dead. In: orf.at . March 27, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ In Viennese German, a Bavarian dialect.
  3. ^ Rainer Elstner: Achleitner's architectural guide completed. In: Austria 1 . October 27, 2010, accessed March 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Joachim Riedl : Strong sense instead of stubbornness , in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Hamburg, No. 22, May 27, 2010, Austria part, p. 13
  5. ^ Stephan Reimertz: Drei Wise in Vienna. In: Berlin Reading Signs. 11/00, November 2000, archived from the original on May 6, 2001 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Catalog sheet. (gif, 7 kB) In: Austrian National Library. September 18, 1997, accessed March 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Achleitner Archive. In: Architekturzentrum Wien. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  8. ^ Henrieta Moravčíková: From common and different traditions: in conversation with architectural theorist Friedrich Achleitner. In: Report. Magazine for art and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. June 2005, archived from the original on January 14, 2013 ; accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Friedrich Achleitner (2011). In: Paul Watzlawick-Ehrenring. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  10. ^ Michaela Schmitz: Friedrich Achleitner: and or or and. "The content is the enemy of every text". In: Literaturhaus Wien . February 28, 2006, Retrieved March 28, 2019 (review).
personal data
SURNAME Achleitner, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Schalchen , Braunau am Inn district
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2019
Place of death Vienna