Fritz Herrmann (publicist)

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Fritz Herrmann (born November 30, 1922 in Vienna ; † November 9, 2003 in Neckenmarkt im Burgenland ) was an Austrian journalist, publicist, social democratic cultural theorist, politician and practitioner with an anarchoid tendency, as well as radio play and stage poet.

Life

Herrmann was the son of a Brigittenau iron lathe operator . After graduating from high school in Vienna, he studied electrical engineering for two semesters at the Technical University of Vienna , which is why the German Wehrmacht drafted him to the radio operator, stationed in Italy (on Lampedusa and in Catania , Sicily ). After the war, studied Herrmann German and in 1950 with a dissertation on Jura Soyfer Dr. phil. the Vienna University doctorate .

Together with his wife Edith Herrmann, he founded the only left tabloid in Austria after the Second World War , the “ Favoritner Wochenblatt”, first published on January 1, 1957. The narrowly limited district paper had a circulation of 25,000 copies with a population of 120,000 at the time within 34 weeks , gradually expanded its distribution area through 16 mutated editions (" Donaustädter Wochenblatt", " Leopoldstädter ...", " Ottakringer ...", " Hernalser ..." etc.) to most of Vienna and called itself from 1960 " Wiener Wochenblatt ”. In the same year the newspaper was bought by Fritz Molden , Fritz Herrmann remained editor-in-chief until 1968 , Edith Herrmann until 1978 publishing director.

In 1970, Federal Minister Leopold Gratz brought Fritz Herrmann to the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts as a consultant, where he developed a cultural concept that was intended to abolish the educated bourgeois separation of culture and economy in order to present a socialist culture as a "fundamentally new possibility of human existence" in a " Establishing a form of society beyond capitalist coercion and domination ”:“ To be a socialist means to seek a new culture ”. In fact, he established a new model of film and small theater funding that supported non-commercial film projects and independent theater groups and continued to have an impact on the 21st century.

Herrmann got along very well with Gratz's successor from 1971 as minister, who later became Chancellor Fred Sinowatz , until he began to promote the high-cultural institutions ( federal theater with state opera , Burgtheater etc .; Salzburg Festival , Salzburg Easter Festival, etc.) and Neglect of the grassroots culture no longer endured. With the publication of 37 Schnaderhüpfeln “Trara Trara, die Hochkultur!” Herrmann documented his disapproval of the funding primacy of high culture and thus showed the shattering of the mutual trust between him and the minister. When Herbert von Karajan declared that he would never conduct in Vienna again because of Stanze No. 15, and that Minister Sinowatz went to see the conductor in Salzburg to apologize for the impropriety of his colleague, the collaboration was over .

Herrmann, who was also the editorial board of the FORVM from 1982 onwards, and from 1986 a publisher's advisory board , retired as "Teichwirt" to his Samersdorf estate in Burgenland and from then on devoted himself to writing, his grandchildren and carp ponds .

Works

  • Jura Soyfer. The beginnings of a popular Austrian poet . Dissertation, University of Vienna, 1949.
  • Jura Soyfer. A political assessment . In: "Exile". Research, findings, results. Vienna 1985, No. 1, pp. 5-21.

Television games

  • The silent monkeys (tragic comedy 1969),
  • Bakunin's Day of Death - An Anarchist Treatise (ORF 1976, directed by Franz Nowotny)

Radio plays

  • The evolution of birds (Ö1 1990)
  • The Raising of a Prostitute into the Starry Sky (1991)
  • Talpa or down there it's terrible . Duration: 48 minutes 32 seconds. Direction: Georg Herrnstadt and Thomas Thieme (ORF 1992).
  • Death penalty most humble. The secret court and war councilor Johann Wolfgang Goethe's not so secret professional life . Duration: 49 minutes 32 seconds. Composition: Georg Herrnstadt, Direction: Georg Herrnstadt and Markus Boysen (ORF 1995).

Plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edith Herrmann (born September 30, 1925 in Vienna) also received her doctorate in 1950 from the University of Vienna, with the dissertation Dr. Ferdinand Bruckner (Theodor Tagger). Life and work of an Austrian playwright until 1948.
  2. ^ Fritz Herrmann: Develop a socialist concept of culture . In: Red markings, contributions to the ideology and practice of Austrian social democracy. Europaverlag, Vienna 1972, p. 79 ff.
  3. ↑ NEUES FORVM , number 280/281, issue April / May, Vienna 1977, p. 50 ff.
  4. ↑ "Mr. von Karajan shits / every wrong note / and he washes his ass in gold lavua / being anal is part of high culture! "
  5. ↑ Self-description in the blurb of his plays in Edition Wilde Mixture .
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, publicist, social democrat with anarchist inclination, radio play and stage poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2003
Place of death Neckenmarkt